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NRDA Settlement Reached for 2014 Galveston Bay Oil Spill

The Energy Law Blog

The Trustees for this incident include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Shortly after the incident, Kirby and the Natural Resource Trustees began assessing natural resource damages caused by the release. That it has taken nearly eight years to resolve the natural resource damages claim is fairly typical.

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The Second Circuit Takes on the Clean Air Act’s International Air Pollution Provision and Climate Change

Law Columbia

The Clean Water Act has its own “international pollution abatement” provision, which can be triggered if a foreign nation “has given the United States essentially the same rights with respect to the pollution and control of pollution.”

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. He served as NOAA’s chief scientist from 2014 and 2016 and has also led both NOAA’s Office of Atmospheric Research and the National Ocean Service. The Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R.

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Policy News: July 12, 2021

ESA

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The bill includes $9.63 billion for NSF, a 13% increase over last fiscal year.

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