Scrapping Housebuilder Pollution Rules Is A Regression: UK Watchdog
"Office for Environmental Protection chair tells ministers plan will degrade England’s rivers and demands that they explain it to MPs".
Source: Guardian, 08/31/2023
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"EPA Revises Waters Rule to Align With High Court Wetlands Ruling"
"A new rule governing federally protected waters and wetlands was issued Tuesday by the EPA to align agency regulations with a US Supreme Court ruling that will allow unpermitted development in wetlands across the country."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/30/2023
$2.9 billion Mississippi River Diversion Job Will Make 21 Sq. Mi. Of Land
"Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday morning officially broke ground on Louisiana's most ambitious wetlands-restoration effort yet at a ceremony near Ironton on the west bank of the Mississippi River."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 08/11/2023
"Facing The Surge"
"With a fast burst of sea level rise, New Orleans’s outer defenses face a major test".
Source: Washington Post, 08/08/2023
"Supreme Court Wetlands Ruling Imperils Waters on Public Lands"
"Wetlands and waterways in national parks, monuments, forests and other federal public lands are newly vulnerable to pollution and development in the wake of the Supreme Court’s May ruling in Sackett v. EPA, natural resources attorneys say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/03/2023
"White House To Agencies: Tally Projects’ Financial Damage To Ecosystems"
"Federal agencies would be required to do a full accounting of how their decisions affect ecosystems the public depends on under a draft guidance that the White House will release Tuesday."
Source: E&E News, 08/02/2023
"Sandhill Cranes Are Moving to Cities and Adopting Urban Lifestyles"
"Once elusive inhabitants of remote wetlands, sandhill cranes can now be found thriving in yards, athletic fields, and college campuses".
Source: Sierra, 07/24/2023
"European Union Approves Ambitious Nature Restoration Law"
"The European Union strengthened its environmental policies this week with adoption of a nature restoration law that member countries hope will help them meet climate and biodiversity targets set under the 2015 Paris Agreement and a global biodiversity agreement reached late last year."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/14/2023
"Mountain Valley Pipeline Halted as Legal Wrangling Heats Up"
"A federal court in Richmond has held up construction, despite a law passed by Congress last month that says it no longer has jurisdiction over the pipeline."
Source: NYTimes, 07/13/2023
"83,000 Hawaii Homes Dispose Of Sewage In Cesspools"
"The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. But the stunning views obscure an environmental problem beneath the ground."
Source: AP, 07/07/2023
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