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ESA Policy News: May 30, 2023

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In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. Courts Supreme Court decision about California’s pork regulations could impact state climate regulations. States Colorado River states reach water rights agreement.

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Six Sleeper Proposals in Project 2025

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They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Undermining endangered species protections.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plan and a combined $19.4 The Biden administration seeks to replace the Trump regulations.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. or WOTUS. “In

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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EPA and NOAA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Louisiana Has Satisfied All Conditions of Approval Placed on Its Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program. EPA and Army Corps of Engineers – Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States”. Comments must be received on or before Feb.

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Policy News: February 14, 2022

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The policy should remain in place, the resolution says, until the Forest Service drafts and completes new regulations that would establish a revised wildfire strategy. Any rulemaking would require analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act, the resolution says, suggesting a time frame that would extend well into 2023 or beyond.

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