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2022 Election: Water Regulation and Spending Punctuate State and Local Ballots

Circle of Blue

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. While state-level decisions this year are about money, local initiatives focus on law and policy.

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What’s Up With Water – November 15, 2022

Circle of Blue

Before the amendment takes effect, the Legislature must pass laws that define what types of projects are eligible. Proponents of the amendment hope it will provide a legal tool for environmental protection. Farther west, in southeastern Arizona, groundwater regulation appeared headed to a split decision.

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The Year in Water, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.

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After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

October 4, 2022. Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Navigator responds that it has complied with state regulations, which require the company to notify landowners in the pipeline’s path and consider citizen safety when routing the project. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.

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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards 

Legal Planet

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Long-awaited environmental protection bill one step closer to becoming law

Enviromental Defense

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Earlier today, long-awaited legislation to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) , cleared its first major hurdle in the Senate. Both the Senate and the House must approve a bill before it can become law.