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N.C. Water Quality Legislation (2023)

Smith Enviorment

In 2020, EPA finalized a human health risk assessment for 1,4 dioxane that concluded 1,4 dioxane has adverse effects on humans and is a likely human carcinogen. The legislature directed DEQ to do a human health risk assessment of 1,4 dioxane in drinking water based on peer-reviewed studies and report back to the legislature by May 1, 2024.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction.

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PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Announce 2023 Scholarship Winners

PA Environment Daily

Her efforts directly assisted with the conservation and recovery of this species under the Endangered Species Act. Alysha was appointed to the SSAC in the spring of 2020 and served as a Zero Waste working group member for two years before being selected to lead as co-chair. of eligible Girl Scouts.

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How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West

Circle of Blue

As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources. As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. May 1, 2020). Wheeler , No.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No. Rhode Island v.

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ESA Policy News: August 30, 2021

ESA

An internal House Natural Resources Committee document obtained by E&E News shows that the committee intends to spend $3 billion on the Civilian Climate Corps, $120 million for the NOAA Civilian Conservation Corps and $500 million for the Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps. The House also expects to pass the Senate’s $1.2

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