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Federal Water Tap, May 31: EPA Proposes Protection for Salmon-Rich Bristol Bay

Circle of Blue

The EPA intends to deny a Clean Water Act permit for a mine development in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Officials sign a Navajo-Utah water rights settlement. The EPA announces an interagency working group for water reuse. Fifteen federal agencies will collaborate to expand the use of recycled water.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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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James Michener’s Chesapeake Bay Was A+

Vermont Law

1600s, but since then humans deforested the land, fished indiscriminately, farmed intensively, and the population grew. Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. EPA established an accountability framework and state water pollution limits (TMDLs) for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment. John Smith’s.

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JBS fires indigenous worker in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, for reporting precarious company buses, says union

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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NY attorney general sues world's largest beef producer over methane emissions, climate commitments

Corp Watch

Multiple reports from NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace have repeatedly linked JBS to farmers and ranchers who have been engaged in widespread deforestation. JBS has featured at the top of the list of companies linked to environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. McArthur Graduate Student Policy Award.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. It is estimated that governments and private industry must put aside between $300-400bn annually to meet current obligations alone (23). Evelyn did not take this work upon himself. Conservation Genetics.