Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

.” In 2023, the Supreme Court ended fifty years of broad federal protection to wetlands in Sackett v. It is only when you look back at the history of federal wetland regulation that you realize just how radical and destructive this decision was. Supreme Court strikes down a rule covers any wetland or pond used by migratory birds.

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Clean Water Act 2006 2001 Regulations 257

ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Appropriations: Congress approved a measure to keep the government open through March 11. President Biden signed the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act ( H.R. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution since October 2021. 6617 ) Feb. Legislative updates: Sen. 3664 , H.R.

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2022 Natural Resources Climate Change Conservation 98

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Ocean Climate Change 98

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v.

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105