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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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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Geological Survey for grants and other financial assistance to water resources research and technology institutes and centers. Legislative updates: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the Restoring Resilient Reefs Act ( S. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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ESA Policy News: August 30, 2021

ESA

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues in a letter that passing both infrastructure bills would put the country on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. commitments Paris Climate Agreement. These insecticides are all neonicotinoids.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. United States v.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Army Corps of Engineers acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it concluded that the overall project was not a “major federal action” pursuant to NEPA. The court ruled that the plaintiffs were precluded from raising this argument because they did not raise greenhouse gas issues during the administrative process. Sierra Club v.

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