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U.S. Climate Law: A Broad & Rapidly Growing Field

Legal Planet

Vehicle biofuels requirements. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Other impacts (health, agriculture, etc.) Standards for emissions from new vehicles. Climate change under other federal statutes.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

If Germany didn’t count emissions-producing and land-intensive fuels like biomass and biofuels as renewable, which most environmental groups, even Greenpeace, believe it shouldn’t, the share of its electricity from non-emitting, non-hydro renewables is just 34 percent. We should not want them to either rise or decline.

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

ESA

Multiorganization letter about FY2022 Agricultural Research Appropriations (Feb. EPA – Request for Nomination of Experts for the Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress Peer Review Panel. EPA – Proposed Stipulated Partial Settlement Agreement, Endangered Species Act Claims.

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Policy News: February 14, 2022

ESA

Department of Agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and the environment. EPA – Request for Nomination of Experts for the Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress Peer Review Panel. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution since October 2021. Eastern on Feb. 17, 2022.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

ESA

Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and John Hoeven (R-ND) will lead the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee and Sens. House Agriculture Committee: Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA) announced the Democratic leadership of the committee. The House and Senate Agriculture committees are working to produce the 2023 Farm Bill this year.

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