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MAY 11, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, approved by Congress and signed by President Biden last November, provides roughly $50 billion over five years for water and sewer systems, the largest federal infusion in the sector in a half century. Congress established the Clean Water SRF in 1987. The culture change came just in time.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

To address HFC usage, the American Innovation & Manufacturing (AIM) Act was enacted by congress on December 27 th , 2020 and is applicable to eighteen specific HFC substances. Each of the 18 regulated substances were assigned a corresponding MTEVe exchange value. 7675 subsection (c)(1): .

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

Most provisions of the Act will take effect on July 1, 2023; others not until July 1, 2024. And, like the VCDPA, the Act contains terms and reflects concepts used in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Is now a time to advocate for or against other states’ adoption of laws similar to the CPA?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Prior law authorized this kind of regulation but also required the agency to consider whether a particular fire involved exceptional circumstances, such as being next to a wilderness area. After the 2023 NEPA amendments, does the agency have to do some kind of environmental review before setting a fire next to a wilderness area?

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

Photo credit: Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management On March 13, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) approved a major oil drilling operation on the North Slope of Alaska. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Statements by BLM suggest they do, however.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. EPA to overturn Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A discussion of ESG disclosures, and what the industry may expect from these other financial regulators on ESG matters under the Biden-Harris Administration, will be the subject of an upcoming Advisory. * * * * *. Financial Regulators."[[N: The Working Group is comprised of financial services trade associations (e.g.,

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Three weeks from today, the Supreme Court starts its 2023 Term. Given the Court’s conservative supermajority, there’s a real threat to the power of agencies like EPA to issue regulations and enforce the law The Threat to Agency Regulatory Power The Chevron case gives agencies leeway in interpreting the law when issuing regulations.

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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. United States. Here’s a timeline of the major events. In Sackett v.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this issue: Congress. Appropriations: Congress approved a measure to keep the government open through March 11. Congress has not passed appropriations bills since December 2020. Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee leaders introduce legislation to reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science. 6617 ) Feb.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 28, 2023, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations governing how federal agencies review the environmental effects of major federal projects. Before those amendments, the regulations had remained largely unchanged since 1978.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

Section 321(11) excludes from the category of federal actions “activities or decisions that are non-discretionary and made in accordance with the agency’s statutory authority.” Did Congress actually mean that? I’m pretty sure that’s not what Congress meant. The drafters of NEPA 2.0

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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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JUNE 14, 2021

Scientist Elected to Congress. Congress would need to provide funding for NSF through the annual appropriations process or special legislation. For the time being, no regulation is on the books, and extended delay might prompt legal action from environmentalists. Executive Branch.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFOA and PFOS Drinking Water Regulations Back On and Only the Beginning. In the final days of the Trump Administration, EPA issued final determinations to regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a process the Agency started in 2018. EPA Will Continue Work on PFAS Disposal and Destruction.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

In particular, the bill extends FY 2021 enacted levels through FY 2022 for federal transportation programs and reauthorizes various surface transportation programs for FY 2023-2026. Congress created both programs in the Energy Act of 2020 to expand energy storage research.[[N:The Buy American Regulations. 133, 116th Cong.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

In this issue: Congress. The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023. K-12 STEM education and student performance across demographic and socioeconomic categories and geographic regions. ESC – Recommendation to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov. Executive Branch.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

That executive order established a new employment category for federal employees to create “a greater degree of appointment flexibility with respect to these employees.” The agency has been making a mad dash to finalize a half dozen rules and regulations that are essential to U.S. Others simply quit or retired. climate goals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

‘In fact, the Supreme Court didn’t grant movies First Amendment protection until 1952, ruling in a 1915 case that movies could “be used for evil” and thus could have their content regulated.’ ‘The The Production Code was loosened in the 1950s and 1960s and was eventually abandoned, in favor of the MPAA film rating system in 1968.

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