Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2023

“We have to be prepared for this increase in the number of weather events and severe weather events that we’re seeing.” — Deanne Criswell, the administrator of FEMA, speaking with reporters en route to California to view the damage from the series of atmospheric rivers that hit the state this month.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” — Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, speaking to the Sacramento Bee about the cancellation of the state’s salmon fishing season. Submit comments via www.regulations.gov using docket number EPA-HQ-OW-2022-0114.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The request includes $231 million for NOAA’s climate research programs, a $7 million increase above FY 2023 levels. lands and waters by 2030. 20, 2022) ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles also noted that the severity of the two-decade-long dry stretch is due, in large part, to the release of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. More water news and analysis await you at circleofblue.org. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

NDAA: The full Senate voted to pass the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). million for PFAS clean-up. After the release of the Arctic Report Card, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published the Arctic Research Plan for 2022-2026. The bill includes $514.3 Comments are due Jan.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Senate Bill 716 / House Bill 391 prohibit, with very limited exception, a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere or organizing or participating in a “mass balloon release,” as defined. The General Assembly will reconvene on January 12, 2022. Enforcement.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

Spending bills for fiscal years FY 2022 and FY 2023 have fallen short of appropriating the amount included in similar authorizing legislation. The House and Senate had been negotiating a compromise between the America COMPETES Act and the Senate’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act since May 2022. billion in FY 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

In this issue: Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Congress passed an omnibus spending bill completing appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 NSF receives a four percent increase.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event in-person since 2019 and the first GSPA Hill visits since Congress passed the Chips and Science Act with bipartisan support in fall 2022.

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

NSF for the Future Act increases authorizing funding for the National Science Foundation to $17.9 billion in FY 2022 in FY 2022. House approves transportation and water infrastructure bill. Innovation and Competition Act passed the full Senate in early June. billion for NSF in FY 2022. billion in FY 2022.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. ESA invites you to apply for the virtual 2022 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Several 1-2 hour training and prep sessions will occur in late January and February 2022 over Zoom. 18, 2022, averting a government shutdown.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S. Interior to weigh greenhouse gas emissions of proposed 2022 oil lease sales – Reuters. New court ruling clears path for Bristol Bay Clean Water Act protections – National Fisherman.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct. Meanwhile, Rep.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. ESA invites you to apply for the virtual 2022 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Several 1-2 hour training and prep sessions will occur in late January and February 2022 over Zoom. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. By Karl Mathiessen, Zia Weise and Joshua Posaner, PoliticoPro, 4/4/2022. This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Young died in March 2022. International.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. The Supreme Court will hear this case, which pertains to the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the definition of the Waters of the U.S. WOTUS), in early October 2022. EPA Supreme Court Case. NSF receives $9.63

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Justice Alito has displayed similar cynicism about water protection.

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ESA

MARCH 28, 2022

Now, House appropriators will draft budget bills for FY 2023, which starts October 2022. Congress completed appropriations for FY 2022 in March 2022 (see ESA Policy News, March 14, 2022 ). President Biden proposed a nearly 20% increase in his FY 2022 budget. billion increase over the FY 2022 level.

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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.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Biden administration releases fall 2022 Unified Agenda, previewing regulations to come. The increase will allow NSF to support approximately 2,300 additional research and education grants and 35,000 more scientists, technicians, teachers and students, compared to FY 2022. billion, a 6% increase over FY 2022 levels. billion, a 9.5%

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. Congress mandated this report in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Appropriations: The Senate Appropriations Committee approved spending bills for agricultural and energy programs for FY 2022.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sanders and progressive Democrats in the House are opposing Manchin’s permitting proposal, citing concerns that the reforms would helps fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act ( S.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

In this issue: House Moving Forward with FY 2022 Spending Bills, Bill Report Includes Funding for Climate Science. Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Judge rules Maui County, Hawaii must receive a Clean Water Act permit in a case that reached the Supreme Court. Bill includes $1.2 International.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The plaintiffs asserted that the Corps’ approval of modifications to the project violated the Rivers and Harbors Act and the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

“As the country works to recover and rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic and fully address the climate crisis, now is the time to develop and pursue a locally led, nationally scaled effort to conserve, connect, and restore the lands, waters, and wildlife upon which we all depend,” the report states. Richard Spinrad to be NOAA administrator.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

EPA lists an October target to propose first-time methane limits on existing oil and gas infrastructure , a companion rule to the methane rule for new oil and gas sources that Congress is expected to revive later this month via the Congressional Review Act. The agenda also lists an October 2022 target for finalizing the rule.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. NSF also receives $3.43 A federal judge in Louisiana will consider a similar case Sept.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The President’s Budget Request represents a starting point for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget process and the administration’s priorities. billion for NSF, representing a 20% increase for NSF over FY 2022 levels. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Science Foundation. The budget request includes $10.17

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. The Biden administration said that rule aims to create a ‘durable’ definition of the Waters of the U.S. The Biden Clean Water Act rule was released in late December and the rule was originally set to take effect in late March.

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