2011 Carbon Dioxide Clean Water Act 
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 17, 2024
It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant.
ESA
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. Gabon Record Carbon Credit Sale a ‘Litmus Test’ Before COP27 – Bloomberg. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I Domestic Climate Czar Gina McCarthy to leave the White House this week, Biden hires new climate advisors.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.
ESA
MARCH 6, 2023
Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.
Law Columbia
JULY 2, 2021
The approval of the permit was therefore contrary to law because climate change had to be considered “to some extent” in order for Ecology to act consistently with implementing regulations under the Clean Water Act and the Water Pollution Control Act. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash.
ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. The Navigable Waters Protection Rule removed Clean Water Act protections for ephemeral streams and wetlands that do not have surface connections to intermittent or perennial streams.
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