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

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Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 million from the state Department of Natural Resources. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

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Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Conservation: History and Future

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What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). It is also dedicated to restoring something to a natural state and maintaining equilibrium. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy. Defining Conservationism.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Reconciliation: The Build Back Better Act ( H.R.

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Will the 30 x 30 Initiative Protect 30% of Freshwaters by 2030?

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In the United States, one of President Biden’s earliest executive orders , issued in his first week in office, established a goal to conserve at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and water and 30 percent of U.S. ocean areas by 2030. Overlooking the need for freshwater conservation cannot be due to a lack of relevance.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. did just that.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

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Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts.

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