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OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. It is therefore essential to strengthen the efforts for the protection and conservation of these maritime spaces. 11, Issue 2 p. 1-30. 

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MAY 28, 2024

” Why, then, did Shell’s Gretchen Watkins call the final watered down Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations “ frustrating and disappointing ” in 2020? Such doublespeak is the latest evolution in the fossil fuel industry’s deception playbook. They couldn’t be more wrong.

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JULY 13, 2022

We’re back to fighting this the way we’ve fought for decades here in Florida, using our existing environmental protection laws.”. A Florida judge struck down an amendment to the Orange County Charter that protected lakes, wetlands, and streams from pollution. Florida environmentalist Chuck O’Neal. Jane Johnston, Stream Editor.

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MARCH 19, 2024

By 2020, however, a United Mine Workers union spokesman said he couldn’t remember the last time Trump had said the word “coal.” For more traditional conservatives, it is the kind of government regulatory mandate with which they are uncomfortable. It remains to be seen how long increasingly uneconomic coal generators remain online.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. According to Environmental Agency data, water companies discharged raw sewage into coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, The Guardian reports.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. Our government has a duty to set, and enforce, ground rules that protect public health and safety. Read more here. Read more here.

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MARCH 31, 2022

Since the death of Charles Koch’s brother David in 2019, the Charles Koch Foundation has continued to finance this disinformation campaign, giving more than $17 million to 23 groups in 2019 and 2020 , pushing the Koch grand total north of $162 million. million on some 70 denier groups from 1998 through 2020. million and Chevron’s $39.47

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Read the full story in Government Executive. A group is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to scrap a directive that prohibits some scientists from discussing their work amongst themselves, saying the current system prevents workers from properly protecting the public from potentially hazardous materials.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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JULY 8, 2021

ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ONTARIO NATURE. Ontario government revokes MZO following pressure from local, environmental and Indigenous Groups. The area at Duffins Creek now returns to zoning laws applied by the City of Pickering and its status as an “urban reserve” with environmentally protective zoning is restored.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Environment and Climate Change Canada reports that, on May 21, 2020, Scamp Industries Ltd., This action is contrary to subparagraph 29(b)(i) of the Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations , made pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. The Regulatory Framework.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The mobs of January 6, 2021 and the malevolent harassment of election workers and officials all over the nation by deniers of the 2020 defeat of former President Donald Trump have left this slice of democracy on an unprecedented precipice. One social media threat clearly hinted at lynching with: “be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.”

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MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. May 1, 2020). Circuit Said EPA Decision to Expand Partial Vacatur of HFC Prohibition Required Notice and Comment. In a split decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the U.S. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. 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. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

In 1982, the Reagan Administration was in full swing, and it was clearly no friend to either civil rights or environmental protection. Whatever the trigger for its emergence into the limelight, environmental justice quickly developed momentum. And all this frustration could only have been heightened by the timing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Industry is attempting some new tactics to undermine independent science and science-based decisionmaking at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that “the number of political appointees in an agency may make the agency more vulnerable to political pressure.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO)–which is the non-partisan congressional watchdog agency-recently published a report finding that 1/3 of chemical facilities in the United States with risk management plans are at risk of future disasters due to climate change. In a 2020 report , we found that 2.5 The Risk Management Plan rule.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Radical right-wing policy strategists already have an elaborate battle plan for a second Trump administration and it includes a scorched-earth approach to dismantling environmental protections and climate policies. The federal government is growing larger and less constitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.”

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AUGUST 31, 2021

The governor has the power to appoint the directors of many state environmental agencies, including the California Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Agency, Department of Water Resources, and Caltrans. Federal partnerships and advocacy. Oil and gas.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

The act provided $350 billion to local, state, and tribal governments that could be used for broadband, water and sewer, lost revenue, and pandemic response. Environmental Protection Agency will distribute to states, tribes, and territories in 2022. Then in 2020 the Trump administration attempted to reverse the veto.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” There is no EPA standard for indoor air.) She then went on to rave about her gas clothes dryer and fireplace.

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JULY 25, 2023

Worse yet, our research suggests that when federal science is sidelined, underserved communities —Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), low-income, and rural communities—frequently face the brunt of the harms in the form of weak, ineffective, or undermined health, safety, and environmental protections.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm? What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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APRIL 13, 2022

A whistleblower disclosure filed on behalf of Wallace and other OSTP staff members by the Government Accountability Project (GAP) describes “three significant areas of misconduct: (1) repeated and knowing disregard of ethics rules; (2) toxic workplace; and (3) unlawful retaliation against our clients and other staff who raised legitimate concerns.”.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

The $200 million plan — with half of the funds coming from the states and half from the federal government — will pay farmers to fallow cropland and compensate tribes for leaving water in the reservoir. Percent : Decline, from 2019 to 2020, in the amount of water withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and oceans by U.S. News Briefs.

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MARCH 25, 2022

All these issues are tragically linked by the hardening divisions in the United States over our acceptance or rejection of expertise in science, public health, and environmental protection. Only 22 percent of Republican-leaning respondents said in a 2020 Pew poll that humans contribute “a great deal” to climate change.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

She then found that the government had violated NEPA by failing to take a hard look at the environmental consequences. In another case, Judge Jackson ruled that the government erred by designating 56 acres of land as critical habitat for Riverside fairy shrimp. Apart from this, her main environmental ruling was in a CEQA case.

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JULY 23, 2021

Flash floods hit the country of Oman as the government attempts to stop the spread of Covid-19. Others fear, based on onerous Trump-era immigration policies, that they will later be punished for accepting government assistance. A pipeline bursts in western North Dakota , spilling tens of thousands of gallons of wastewater.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improving the communication networks between science, government, and the public needs creative and effective strategies at multiple levels, and engagement from all participants. However, through creating better communication networks between voters, policy makers, and scientists, such hurdles can be overcome.

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