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Court Dismisses Permitting Challenges to the U.S.’s First Major Offshore Wind Project

The Energy Law Blog

On May 17, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed plaintiffs’ challenges to the Vineyard Wind Project—the United States’s first major offshore wind project. The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale.

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Dammed If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Who gets scarce water resources from lakes in times of drought?

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Posted on October 11, 2023 by Thomas Sansonetti The old saying goes “water in the East is for drinking and water in the West is for fighting over!” Other states grant the authority to control the use of water to a state agency like a natural resource department.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction.

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ESA Policy News: March 20, 2023

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ESA Selects 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award Fifteen ESA members will travel to DC to receive policy and communications training and meet with policymakers on Capitol Hill. States Texas State Board of Education issues guidance encouraging schools to emphasize the “positive” aspects of climate change in textbooks. million, $44.8

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

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ESA is accepting expression of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. Mining: House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. billion for the agency in FY 2023.

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

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Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee leaders introduce legislation to reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science. Supreme Court to hear climate case. Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approves new PFAS standards. 3593 ), which was included in the America COMPETES Act ( H.R. 16: .

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

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The next day, the House Science Committee will hold a hearing about climate change with Ko Barrett of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NOAA; Dr. Dominique David-Chavez, an assistant professor of indigenous natural resource stewardship at Colorado State University; and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

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