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MARCH 21, 2023

. “We appreciate your support of the Great Lakes and encourage you to emphasize the importance of our binational institutions and investments for the Great Lakes from the Canadian government.” — Excerpt from a letter to President Biden from a bipartisan group of Great Lakes lawmakers.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. House votes to ‘disapprove’ of entering Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, defying Gov. Executive Branch. International.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. million to resolve violations under the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. This current legislation provides an opportunity for government leaders, and all of us, to have their backs in advancing their fights.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now Aurora Solá | Mongabay News | April 6, 2021 JBS, the largest animal protein producer on Earth, made headlines last week with a commitment to achieve zero deforestation across its global supply chain by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now Aurora Solá | Mongabay News | April 6, 2021 JBS, the largest animal protein producer on Earth, made headlines last week with a commitment to achieve zero deforestation across its global supply chain by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Tree Planting. Senate Bill 349 makes changes to the statute governing the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund to conform State law to federal law. House Bill 2 l makes overarching changes to the governance and administration of the Maryland Environmental Service (MES).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. Some residual nitrogen was lodged in soils where microbes converted it into nitrous oxide, a significant greenhouse gas.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines. government water policy.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In the 21 st century, it is common for countries to have laws in place to protect monuments, sites, and landscapes of cultural or historical importance and government-established charities or government departments assigned to their management, upkeep or conservation. Conservation Genetics. Wildlife Management.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2022

Anchorman Frank Blair reported that “a government scientist” had told colleagues at the American Geophysical Union that “over-pollution, unless checked, could so warm the earth in 200 years as to create a greenhouse effect, melting the Arctic ice cap and flooding vast areas of the world.”. Which brings us to this Earth Day.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Rundown The EPA proposes elevating PFAS and greenhouse gas emissions as enforcement priorities for the next four years. EPA researchers want a better understanding of the economic benefits of improved water quality. And lastly, the federal government increases assistance to California’s flood emergency. “We

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Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

The decision leaves intact the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and even allows it to regulate power plants on a case-by-case basis. The greater significance of the case, rather, may be the new inroad it creates for challenges to environment and water protections.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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 court also held that these claims were not ripe.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. commitments Paris Climate Agreement.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. The court also found that denial of the permit application based on State Environmental Policy Act substantive authority was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. The court also rejected claims under the National Forest Management Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funding -- Bay Journal: PA Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Fund Clean Water Projects And Help The Chesapeake Bay - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? Morton opened the door for environmental groups to sue over government actions, something that Justice Scalia had opposed since his days as a law professor.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. Across administrations, the President’s Budget Request is typically viewed as a “wishlist” and allows the administration to demonstrate its priorities and vision for the federal government. The comment period ends March 31, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Heating Worries Mount Amid Growing Costs, Uncertainty American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. 25 At Muhlenberg H.S. . -- Bucknell University Dedicates 1.76 What’s Your Community Doing?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

environmental organizations, and climate activists were appropriately enthused last summer when Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act. Agricultural nutrient pollution is the primary reason that the Clean Water Act has not come close to meeting its “fishable and swimmable” goal for US surface waters.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. July 16, 2021); Indigenous Environmental Network v. Trump , No. 4:19-00028 (D. July 30, 2021).

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. June 28, 2021).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

The decision has already started to populate briefings in other climate cases brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies, and it will undoubtedly occupy a good deal of debate as those cases progress, both in the current stage of removal-remand battles and in the motions to dismiss that will follow.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Here are 69 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Million In Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants Starting Oct.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Here are 99 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Here are 118 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 13 [PaEN] -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Dec.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The House passed an infrastructure package that includes a historic federal investment in water systems. Congressional Republicans introduce a bill that would narrowly define the scope of the Clean Water Act. The EPA orders officials in a Michigan city to address lead-contaminated drinking water. WOTUS in Congress.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Failure to act means tough choices in the future. Senate committee approves conservation funding bill. Executive Branch.

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