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Policy News: October 10, 2022

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EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Ocean Climate Action Plan. Submit your idea to the policy accelerator here. Submit an idea here.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

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Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. Here are five key messages from the final report. White House: The Office of Science and Technology released a new report , Opportunities and Actions for Ocean Science and Technology. View more letters and testimony from ESA here.

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ESA Policy News: May 15, 2023

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ESA held a Water Cooler chat with ESA members who attended COP 26, the recording is linked here. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. Max Miller (R-OH)’s Advanced Weather Model Computing Development Act ( H.R. 2, 2022) View more letters and testimony from ESA here.

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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. See an album of the GSPA event here. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. RSVP for the meeting here.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. UN seeks input about possible topics for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same. E&E News.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

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As we will explain in the next section, it covers many areas, all with the same purpose already described here. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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