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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet – Associated Press. NOAA – Public Comment of the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification (IWG-OA).

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste.

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Policy News: August 1, 2022

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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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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible. 1:21-cv-11390 (D.

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Policy News: March 14, 2022

ESA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 Jared Huffman (D-CA), sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, expressing their disappointment in the EPA’s January 2022 announcement to restart the Clean Water Act review process for protecting Bristol Bay, Alaska. increase to $9.56

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Countries pledge to combat deforestation, cut methane emissions, transition away from coal and more. More than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S.

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