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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

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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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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

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Federal Register ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill The 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) Cohort of 15 students flew in from around the country to learn about science policy and meet with lawmakers. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

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Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing for that bill, along with another fishery management bill from Young ( H.R. The Magnuson Stevens Act is the main law governing U.S. Executive Branch. International.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. He served as the USDA undersecretary for nature resources and the environment in the Obama administration. or WOTUS. “In United States.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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PFAS: EPA stuck with its statutory deadlines for proposing and finalizing a drinking water regulation for the chemicals PFOA and PFOS — March 2023 and September 2024, respectively. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) reintroduced a revised Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act ( H.R.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. Lawmakers have submitted over 500 amendments to the America COMPETES Act. Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. Executive Branch. International. This bill provides a combined $1.4

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ESA Policy News: May 15, 2023

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USGS : The agency, in collaboration with Canadian and Mexican agencies and the Udall Foundation, is preparing a two-year (2023–2025) regional assessment of biodiversity and climate change, culminating in the first-ever assessment report addressing these two challenges together for the United States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. territories.

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