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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

The order also includes incentives to reduce deforestation internationally and promote economic development in areas heavily dependent on the timber industry. Forest Service , the Department of Agriculture , the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency this week regarding the agencies’ Fiscal Year 2023 budget requests.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide (12). Deforestation. By nature, they are warmer and more humid than a garden. The effect on the global environment is similar.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants.

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