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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. Executive Branch.

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

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Supreme Court to hear climate case. She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. President Biden signed the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act ( H.R. Executive Branch. International.

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N.C. Water Quality Legislation (2023)

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Aside from the constitutional issue, legislative intervention in a permitting action sets a precedent for direct political intervention in permit decisions. In 2020, EPA finalized a human health risk assessment for 1,4 dioxane that concluded 1,4 dioxane has adverse effects on humans and is a likely human carcinogen.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Offered each year, this award gives graduate students hands-on training and science policy experience including interacting with congressional decision-makers, federal agency officials, and ecologists who work in the science and public policy arena. That decision is on appeal, though, and could be reversed. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

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The Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. House in September 2020. The MSI STEM Achievement Act ( H.R. Legislative updates: The House Oversight and Reform Committee approved the Preventing a Patronage System Act ( H.R This rule implements a February 2021 federal group decision that threw out the rule.

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

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ESA and other scientific organizations endorsed a similar resolution from Duckworth, Hirono and Vice President Kamala Harris introduced during the 116 th Congress in April 2020. The courts eventually threw out this rule. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the species under the Endangered Species Act in 1975.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S. The Court’s decision concerned the interpretation of 28 U.S.C. In addition, the Court cited its decision in Yamaha Motor Corp.,

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