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The Environment Department will ask lawmakers in the 2025 legislative session to give the state the authority to oversee federal pollution discharge permits, a required step in the process, Maez ...
They say they work for the government to keep it from inhibiting the public’s freedom – particularly the freedom of giant businesses to operate with minimal taxes and regulation.
Nonpoint source (NPS) water pollution regulations are environmental regulations that restrict or limit water pollution from diffuse or nonpoint effluent sources such as polluted runoff from agricultural areas in a river catchments or wind-borne debris blowing out to sea. In the United States, governments have taken a number of legal and ...
California lawmakers are among leaders in the U.S. in enacting climate change policy. [14] Starting in the early 2000s, several executive orders focused on climate change were signed by California governors. The California State Legislature has passed numerous bills to enact the changes and regulations that were necessary to meet the goals ...
In August 2017, the Trump administration rolled back regulations that required the federal government to account for climate change and sea-level rise when building infrastructure. [260] Responding to a 2018 government-funded study which warned of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts , Trump said he had read part of the report but ...
It’s under this backdrop that Florida lawmakers convene in Tallahassee this week for the annual legislative session, where a slate of new laws and an annual budget will emerge after 60 days.
At COP 17, the representatives of the Canadian government gave their support to a new international climate change agreement that "includes commitments from all major emitters." [ 39 ] : 1 Canadian representatives also stated that "the Kyoto Protocol is not where the solution lies – it is an agreement that covers fewer than 30 per cent of ...
Advocates say they're pleased the Minnesota Legislature put $16 million toward solving southeast Minnesota's nitrate pollution problem, but some are concerned lawmakers shortchanged efforts to ...