Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. billion bushels.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. million in Ohio in 2020. did it once before. .

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. May 1, 2020). Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. In Mexichem , the D.C. Wheeler , No.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The court also held that these claims were not ripe.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues in a letter that passing both infrastructure bills would put the country on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. The Arctic Circle saw record-high temperatures in 2020, NOAA report finds – CBS News. commitments Paris Climate Agreement.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

Wolf Vetoes Bill To Block All-Electric Building Codes -- WESA: PA Legislature Approves New $125 Million Home Repair Assistance Initiative With Energy Efficiency Program -- StateImpactPA: Bellefonte Fixing Some Of Its Electric Vehicle Chargers After Storms Fried Them A 2nd Time -- Republicans On House Committee Approves Letter To IRRC Setting Up Their (..)

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) rule adopted in December 2020 that created new product classes for short-cycle washers and dryers in the energy conservation program. Army Corps of Engineers acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it concluded that the overall project was not a “major federal action” pursuant to NEPA. Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021. WildEarth Guardians v. Oatly Group AB , No.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. 21-4069 (10th Cir.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Supreme Court hears Clean Power Plan case. Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. International.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020. Half of the top 30 methane emitters have signed on to this pledge.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

CEQ is also planning to revive guidance on how to factor greenhouse gas emissions and climate change into NEPA reviews, after Obama-era guidance was yanked by the Trump administration. Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. 21, 2020 ).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

2020 Election -- Inquirer: Republican Candidate For Governor Mastriano To Be Interviewed By U.S. 2020 Election -- PA Capital-Star: Republican Candidate For Governor’s Largest Donor Is Martin’s Potato Roll, Shake Shack’s Bread Maker -- AP: Commonwealth Court Orders Contested Mail-In Ballots Counted In PA U.S.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Judge rules Maui County, Hawaii must receive a Clean Water Act permit in a case that reached the Supreme Court. The bill also requires the EPA to determine whether PFAS should be designated as a toxic pollutant under the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sanders and progressive Democrats in the House are opposing Manchin’s permitting proposal, citing concerns that the reforms would helps fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. universities from 2011 to 2020 Sept. The business community, including the U.S.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020. EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. Farming boom threatens Biden’s climate and conservation ambitions – Food and Environment Reporting Network.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Sean Casten (D-IL) ‘s Climate Risk Disclosure Act ( H.R. This bill requires publicly listed companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and how climate change will impact their businesses to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The House Financial Services Committee approved Rep. 2570 ) along a party-line vote.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

Tom Udall and Haaland during her time in the House of Representatives before it became a staple of the Biden campaign promise in 2020. House in September 2020. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) reintroduced the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( H.R. will halve its greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels.

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