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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

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To help achieve these goals, the bill alters and directs additional resources to a number of existing programs and initiatives, including by way of example, in fiscal 2023, $2.5 A person exercising this right to intervene must act in accordance with applicable practices, procedures, and laws in the State. Enforcement.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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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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ESA Policy News: May 30, 2023

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In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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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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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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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. The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023. International.

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