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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit Vacated EPA’s Administrative Stay of Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. EPA Administrator , Nos.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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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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. Congress Legislative updates: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-MO) reintroduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( R.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. Mayorkas , No. July 19, 2021).

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

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Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee leaders introduce legislation to reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science. Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approves new PFAS standards. Williams joined the Biden administration in January 2021 and is currently serving as the agency’s principal deputy director.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 But when the Trump administration took office, it repealed that rule and issued its own, far narrower definition.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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EPA announced plans to repeal and replace the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Rule. US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. Circuit’s January ruling striking down the Trump predecessor rule and Administrator Michael Regan’s stated desire for a “robust” engagement process with industry.

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