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Ag and Food Law Daily Update: December 10, 2021

National Law Center

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: December 10, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

The consequence is that the cost of runaway agricultural pollution is falling on shoreline communities like Toledo. In this city, toxic algae blooms hike water bills by $100 per year for a family of five. The Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution. They chose instead to ignore it.”.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

Today, our air and water are significantly cleaner than they were 50 years ago thanks to the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other environmental safeguards Congress passed back then. But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Greenbuilding Law

Senate Bill 716 / House Bill 391 prohibit, with very limited exception, a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere or organizing or participating in a “mass balloon release,” as defined. Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share Program.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

This can be the repair of a cultural artefact (for example, replacing worn or rotten cotton threads in a tapestry with new material to restore it to a former state) or the restoration of woodland to plains or swamp/wetlands that may have previously been drained for agriculture or other use. Simply, they are vital for agriculture and ecology.

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Federal Water Tap, April 10: EPA’s Proposed Strengthening of Air Pollution Standards Comes with Water Benefit

Circle of Blue

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.