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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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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 court also held that these claims were not ripe.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision also addressed a number of non-climate change claims under NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, CEQA, and other state law.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Policy News: March 14, 2022

ESA

Maryland State Senate Committee advances a bill to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Applegate is a career USGS employee who has served as the acting USGS director for the past year. These species are found in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. Supreme Court hears Clean Power Plan case. International.

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ESA Policy News: April 17, 2023

ESA

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) rule listing the Northern Long-eared Bat as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations.

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ESA Policy News: April 17, 2023

ESA

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) rule listing the Northern Long-eared Bat as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations.

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