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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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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

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ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. White House OSTP – Ocean Climate Action Plan. Scientific Community.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. The approval of the permit was therefore contrary to law because climate change had to be considered “to some extent” in order for Ecology to act consistently with implementing regulations under the Clean Water Act and the Water Pollution Control Act.

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Policy News: March 14, 2022

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 Jared Huffman (D-CA), sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, expressing their disappointment in the EPA’s January 2022 announcement to restart the Clean Water Act review process for protecting Bristol Bay, Alaska. increase to $9.56

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