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APHIS Releases New Strategic Plan for 2023-2027, Includes Biotechnology Objectives

Brag

trading partners to harmonize further regulatory frameworks for biotechnology products; Manage wildlife damage and threats to agriculture, natural resources, property, and people; and Promote the welfare of animals.

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Fresh, May 16, 2023: New Wisconsin Law Aims to Protect Watersheds From Farm Runoff

Circle of Blue

million from the state Department of Natural Resources. million homes over the next decade in Ontario, also changes environmental protections and regulations required for development plans. In the News FISH STICKS: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources approved $1.7

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NRDC: Moving To Electric Trucks In PA Could Save 140 Lives, Create 3,524 Jobs

PA Environment Daily

On October 25, the Natural Resources Defense Council released a new report that found adoption of the Advanced Clean Trucks standard for medium and heavy duty trucks in Pennsylvania can avoid 140 premature deaths and create 3,524 new jobs. The report was prepared by ERM and commissioned by NRDC and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Changes to California’s Electric Truck Proposal Could Reap Huge Climate and Air Quality Gains

Union of Concerned Scientists

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets. and NOx emissions reductions from tractor trucks while still only regulating around 13 percent of California tractor fleets. This has two positives.

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Guide to the New SEC Climate Disclosure Rules

Capaccio

The SEC defines transition risks as those resulting from regulatory, technological, or market changes; for example, costs resulting from climate-related regulations would need to be disclosed. AFs would need to meet this requirement by 2026, and smaller reporting companies and EGCs by 2027.

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U.S. Fifth Circuit Adopts Broad Definition of “Good Faith” for Louisiana Environmental Whistleblower Claims

The Energy Law Blog

Discloses, or threatens to disclose, to a supervisor or to a public body an activity, policy, practice of the employer … that the employee reasonably believes is in violation of an environmental law, rule, or regulation.” Borcik later sued Crosby, alleging retaliatory termination in violation of Louisiana Environmental Quality Act.

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California Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of ExxonMobil’s Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under Woods’s leadership, ExxonMobil claims to be “ advancing climate solutions ” while investing $25 billion per year through 2027 in capital expenditures, all but a fraction of it in expanding the corporation’s oil and gas business. Woods is apparently following the playbook drafted by Exxon’s former head of corporate research in 1988: “1.