Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.
Environment, Law, and History
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA. Today, the private enforcement model is replicated in many of the nation’s environmental laws.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
To address these concerns, UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) hosted a convening of experts from a variety of industries, including environmental, public health, environmental justice, labor, business, and government sectors.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The two professors, David Nixon and John Zavodni, were not merely interested in the bounty provision of the law (a common feature of legislation in the late 19th century,) but they wanted to make a point: the rivers were a dump. Nobody at the Corps of Engineers had heard of the law, let alone a permit program to enforce it.
ESA
MAY 31, 2023
EPA creates a far narrower test than what has been used for more than half a century to determine when bogs and marshes fall under the scope of the 1972 law. United States, should no longer determine the scope of the law. The 5-4 ruling in Sackett v. Alex Guillén contributed to this report. Comments are due by June 12, 2023.
ESA
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
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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