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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Legislative updates: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the Restoring Resilient Reefs Act ( S. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. The National Academies will hold a webinar about Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (Ocean CDR) Jan 20 as part of a monthly climate webinar series.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Congress Senate Commerce Committee to consider ocean debris legislation. Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. This request marks the start of the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024 (FY24), which starts Oct. billion for NSF in FY 2024. lands and waters by 2030.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Jeff Porter EPA picked another Clean Water Act fight with the United States Supreme Court last week and I don’t understand why EPA thinks it is a fight it can win. Which brings us to the Clean Water Act rule EPA published last week.

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MARCH 6, 2025

The rule had been challenged by the city of San Francisco, whose permit to discharge sewage from its combined sewer system into the Pacific Ocean included general limits and non-specific conditions meant to protect the oceans water quality. aims to purify 10 million gallons of water each day.

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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. 2 – Associated Press.

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MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The visits came as Congressional appropriations committees are starting work on the FY 2024 budget. Act, which is legislation intended to reduce plastic pollution in the oceans.

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MARCH 13, 2023

NOAA measurements of ocean surface temperatures indicate that La Niña is gone. The Bureau of Reclamation prepares $250 million to pay Colorado River water users not to use water. Environmental Protection Agency in President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget. By the Numbers $12 Billion : Funding proposed for the U.S.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Ocean Climate Action Plan. ESC – Letter of Support for the DOE Foundation for FY 2024 (Sept.

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MAY 31, 2023

In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct.

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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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MARCH 10, 2025

Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act discharge permits. And lastly, Democratic senators from western states ask the administration to preserve water funding and staff. Warming oceans, a consequence of climate change, contribute to rapid intensification. Federal hurricane forecasts set accuracy record last year.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

The EPA’s Geographic Programs budget, which funds the restoration of nationally significant bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay, is increased to $681.7 Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 The EPA announced a new Clean Water Rule in Dec.

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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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AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The full Senate voted to confirm Michael Morgan as the assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Coastal State Preparedness Act (H.R.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. PFAS: EPA stuck with its statutory deadlines for proposing and finalizing a drinking water regulation for the chemicals PFOA and PFOS — March 2023 and September 2024, respectively.

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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. 20, 2022) ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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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. Top Priorities : Coastal resiliency; healthy oceans investments; modernizing the National Weather Service. Allocation : $83 billion.

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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. Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Save Our Sequoias Act ( H.R. NSF receives $9.63

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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. ESC – Letter of Support for the DOE Foundation for FY 2024 (Sept. ET on Sept.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress ask White House to provide $425 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in 2024 President’s Budget Request. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Michael Waltz (R-FL) introduced the Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. Meanwhile, Rep. Nominations are due March 2, 2023.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Congress Clean Water Act: President Joe Biden vetoed a Congressional Review Act measure that would have nullified the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule, which seeks to define the “Water of the U.S.”

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APRIL 27, 2023

Congress President Joe Biden vetoes measure to nullify the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts. Forests: Reps.

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APRIL 5, 2021

This total funding amount is less than the amount proposed in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) authorizing Endless Frontiers Act, from the last Congress, and soon to be reintroduced in the current Congress, that proposes creating a technology directorate within NSF, which would be funded at $34 billion by FY 2024.

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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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