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NEPA as an environmental back-stop

Legal Planet

That might be because the proposed agency action is one with a novel kind of environmental effect not previously considered for regulation for instance, consider the possible impacts of introducing genetically modified organisms into the environment, when that technology was a nascent one. NEPA requires consideration of those effects.

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California Dreaming Is Becoming a Reality: Solar Canals May Mean Having More Water As Well As More Solar Energy

Acoel

Because the water canals are unlikely to be habitat for species, installing solar panels over them instead of open land also should avoid Endangered Species Act issues and other wildlife conflicts. This project reduced evaporation from the canal by 50% and generated 1.3

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100 Days of Anti-Environmental Mayhem

Legal Planet

In addition, the Administration has withheld funding for clean technology, denounced the very idea of environmental justice, and begun a campaign to gut environmental agencies. This term is shaping up to be much worse. Regulatory rollbacks promise to be even more extensive than last time.

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A Muffled American Environmentalism

Circle of Blue

Millions of acres of flood-preventing wetlands that previously were protected under the Clean Water Act are now free to be developed for farming, industry, and residential development. Coal-fired power plants closed and clean energy technology is now supplying most of America’s new electrical demand.

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Listing Trump’s Environment and Energy Executive Orders

Legal Planet

EO 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (various measures addressing wildlife prevention and response) EO 14304: Leading the World in Supersonic Flight (repealing prohibition on overland flights by SSTs) EO 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science (imposing various requirements such as reproducibility, best available science, (..)

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House Passes Legislation to Increase Monitoring of Certain Foreign Investments

National Law Center

CFIUS also closely reviews investments in critical technologies. These technologies are created or used by certain U.S. Transactions that may pose a risk to the national security, for example, are investments and acquisitions of critical infrastructure, such as transportation, telecommunication, public health, and energy.

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Protecting Plants and Animals at Risk Must Start before They Need the Endangered Species Act

Scientific American

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