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Policy News: June 28, 2021

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billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. The Senate confirmed Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water. This includes a $2.11

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

Law Columbia

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. The headline here is that the Second Circuit found that Section 115 authorizes the U.S.