Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For years, Indigenous communities have raised concerns about the tailings leaking, and a report by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation published in 2020 corroborated their worries. The tar sands’ tailings “ponds” contain over 1.4

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The use of antibiotics in animal farming — a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance — is expected to grow by 8% between 2020 and 2030 despite ongoing efforts to curtail their use, according to an analysis. Read the full story in Nature.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

-- PennLive: Lycoming County Judge Reviewing Ballot Images As Challenge To 2020 Results Continues -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Report: PA’s Tax Burden Still A Mixed Bag -- The Guardian: PA Republican Cong.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. Over the years, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum has been an important event for me; I go to listen and engage with different stakeholders of the Gulf of Maine.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There were at least six spills of toxic substances reported at Sarnia-area NOVA plants between 2017 and 2020. It was fined another $125,000 in 2018 for a spill of brine into a Sarnia-area waterway. The surrounding communities, including the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, pay a high price for business as usual.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We’ve lost more than one million people to COVID-19 since 2020, the pandemic’s effects exacerbated by poverty , disinformation campaigns, and underfunded public health departments. However, this wasteful spending diverts funding from the real and immediate threats to our health and safety.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

c)) mandated VMT analysis on a Statewide basis effective as of July 1, 2020, and the addendum here was not finally approved by the City until July 14, 2020. It so held despite the facts that the CEQA VMT Guideline (§ 15064.3(c)) In 2018, Guidelines § 15064.3

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The panel held that the lease contract Desigual signed in January 2020 required the company to pay rent even in the event it could not use the property due to natural occurrences, changes to law, or other conditions beyond the landlord's control.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The three Judges of the Ninth Circuit vehemently disagreed, holding that “the district court lacked the authority [under the Administrative Procedures Act or in equity] to vacate the 2020 Rule without first holding it unlawful.

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Biden Administration Rollback of the Trump Administration’s Overhaul to NEPA The Trump Administration enacted a massive overhaul of the landmark regulation which went into effect on September 14, 2020. The revisions were the first substantive changes to NEPA since the 1970s.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020. Scientists have become more aware of the impacts of agriculture on Earth’s changing climate. It is estimated that agriculture was responsible for 11% of the total U.S. Those emissions come from farm equipment (e.g., trucks), ruminant animals (e.g.,

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

1002 ) preventing any position in the federal competitive service, created after September 30, 2020, from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. in 2021 from 2020 levels when the country reported a record decrease in emissions, largely due to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How big is big enough? Surprising responses of a semiarid grassland to increasing deluge size. Global Change Biology , 27(6), 1157-1169. 6 Post, A. K., & Knapp, A. The importance of extreme rainfall events and their timing in a semi‐arid grassland. Journal of Ecology , 108(6), 2431-2443. 7 Hoover, D. Lauenroth, W. Milchunas, D.

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