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In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the CleanWaterAct. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the EndangeredSpeciesAct (ESA. Like today, 1973 was a time of political turmoil. The first EPA Administrator took office in 1971.
Nevertheless, despite Nixon’s waning interest in environmental issues, Republican members of Congress continued to find common ground with Democratic colleagues even as the toxic political bitterness of the Watergate scandal embroiled the nation. The review goes on to discuss the book's treatment of the post-Nixon years, as well.
For example: Ontario undermined Ontario’s EndangeredSpeciesAct protections in 2019 with Bill 108, which empowered the Minister broad and reckless exemptions to let developers destroy endangeredspecies and their habitat, delay extending any protection at all for species that desperately need it, and even “pay to slay” endangeredspecies.
This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. The CleanWaterAct requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters.
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The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
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