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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. A person exercising this right to intervene must act in accordance with applicable practices, procedures, and laws in the State.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. The Platte Lake case displayed the power of citizen lawsuits, MEPA, and the public trust doctrine to compel a polluter to halt damaging discharges. . Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio

Ohio Environmental Law

On January 23, 2020, the Trump Administration released the final version of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), which defines which waters and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act. The NWPR replaces the Obama Administration’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

However, diplomats failed to agree about how to fulfill a decade-old pledge that was set to begin in 2020 to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help developing counties with climate adaptation and mitigation each year. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

The petition asserts that because every CAFO discharges polluting wastes EPA has the authority and duty to require them to operate under wastewater permits. Water worries. EPA is weak on regulations on CAFOs,” said Emily Miller, a Food & Water Watch attorney. Milking parlor in Lenawee County. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.