Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. On November 2, voters will be asked whether to amend the state’s foundational document by inserting language to protect individual rights to unimpaired ecosystems. Senate race.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improving the communication networks between science, government, and the public needs creative and effective strategies at multiple levels, and engagement from all participants. However, through creating better communication networks between voters, policy makers, and scientists, such hurdles can be overcome.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

There are certainly a lot of people across the political spectrum who feel that way. Capitalism is blamed for environmental destruction by many of the more radical segments of the Left. State-owned enterprises in places like the old Soviet Union and in China have terrible environmental records.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For many, the future we look to depends on the person in power, and because of the constantly shifting whims of politics, that future is continuously changing. State-level Green Amendments allow states to create environmental safeguards for their citizens above and beyond what the federal government provides. State of Montana.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having eyes in the sky, either on airplanes or spacecraft, is transforming environmental monitoring and management. Environmental Protection Agency is leading a coalition to develop a satellite-based program to detect toxin-producing algae in lakes. Political sensitivities are an important consideration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In effect, judges with no subject matter expertise on the substance of a case will be deciding the technical details and best approach for a huge range of issues in public health, environmental protection, public safety, conservation and more. This issue of observer costs has been around for decades. Well, you guessed it.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This means that the Impact Assessment Act can easily be amended to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision without undermining the federal government’s ability to move forward with a full and thorough impact assessment of Highway 413. We call on Minister Stephen Guilbeault and all federal MPs to deliver an urgent legislative fix.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. The reform follows a global trend of increasing recognition of new obligations and rights in the field of environmental protection. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre. 179/2019 ).

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. Remember Bill C-69? So back to court we go.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

David Zimmerman (R-Lancaster) introduced House Bill 1755 which would take away all Department of Environmental Protection permit application fees collected by the agency and deposit them into the General Fund rather than into the accounts now set up in law to pay for specific environmental protection programs.

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Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources. Initially, this restriction was based on lithiums potential use in nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a setback to the environmental rights of nature in Florida and a recent lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Lawmakers put a clause into an omnibus bill that prevented local governments from giving the natural environment its own legal rights.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s proven to be one of the most successful of America’s bedrock federal environmental statutes. The second feature was a massive infusion of federal funding to state and local governments to upgrade sewage treatment plants across America. Environmental Protection Agency.).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The young left-wing candidate made environmental issues central to his campaign, and has since chosen a cabinet with strong environmental credentials, but faces challenges in implementing his progressive programme. Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. Despite the obvious dangers of fossil fuel production and the multi-decade climate disinformation campaigns fossil fuel producers have perpetrated, the industry still holds political sway. Recent science shows that reducing methane could avert 0.25

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2024

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture. House Floor. House Floor.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both possibilities – that there might be proposals to use it, and that doing so might be on balance beneficial – imply a need to learn more, by doing research and discussing governance needs and possibilities. Considered together, as they must be, these represent real progress.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The federal government is a critical partner on Chesapeake Bay restoration, providing science, accountability, and technical and financial resources. But it is important to remember that our work is so much bigger than the federal government. Third, state and local actions have enormous power to protect and restore our water.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

The Environmental Working Group did a peer-reviewed study to estimate whether the chemical levels that don’t exceed government limits in drinking water could combine to cause increased health risks. That’s something political leaders have not been willing to do. Those increases are – at this point – unexplained.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What’s more, new relationships between government and local agencies had to be formed. Kristina Surfus is the managing director of government affairs for the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, a trade group for wastewater utilities. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has made an unusual change that will make the regulation of PFAS chemicals even harder , potentially letting thousands of these dangerous “forever chemicals” escape EPA regulation, thereby endangering the health of millions of people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. As a person in SoCal with asthma, cleaner air is especially important. as you probably know, pollution reigns in SoCal. California.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The hunger crisis worsened along with the country’s political deterioration, which culminated in the Taliban takeover in August. What’s more, the work required them to form new relationships between government and local agencies. Environmental Protection Agency. And it’s a complex endeavor: the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Tomorrow, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), will begin a review of Bill S-5, government legislation that modernizes the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But House Democrats worry that a slapdash approach to appease oil and gas interests will re-entrench polluting industries in districts that have little political power. “We Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General are on the ground in Jackson, conducting interviews. government water policy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. House Floor. March 3-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Public Utility Commission. House Floor.

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Eco Justice

APRIL 27, 2021

Political parties need to make Bill C-28 a priority After years of campaigning by committed activists, environmental groups and health advocates, the federal government tabled the Strengthening Environmental Protection for.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In doing so, groundwater management joins other programs and statutes – the state Environmental Protection Act, sand dune and wetland safeguards, brownfields cleanup, and natural river protections to name just a few – that earned Michigan a well-deserved reputation for anticipating trouble and taking steps to protect natural resources. .

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2022

Rally sends strong message to all political parties: Ontarians expect climate and environmental leadership from the next government. As Ontarians take to the polls, residents are calling for a government that takes environmental protection and climate change seriously. They’ll make it worse.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On September 12, former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell was appointed President & CEO of PennFuture , a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to protecting public health, restoring and protecting natural resources, and moving Pennsylvania toward a clean energy future.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The United States Environmental Protection Agency released an administrative order this week identifies several deficiencies in the city of Benton Harbor’s water system. EPA calls for better water management practices from Benton Harbor, Michigan officials amid a years-long lead crisis. EPA Administrator Michael Regan. ON THE RADAR.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 17, 2023

Lawyers for the corporate coalition and Dow Chemical, who are fighting the federal government and, by association, the environment and all living things, tried to argue all week that there’s not enough evidence that plastic items are toxic to the environment. But they had two quibbles. Yes, our products kill turtles. Shocked silence].

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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