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The Massachusetts Compromise was a solution reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the United States Constitution. The compromise helped gather enough support for the Constitution to ensure its ratification and led to the adoption of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights.
This was repealed by the 1972 CWA, reducing the Corps' role in pollution control to the discharge of dredged or fill material. [98] [103] Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 created a comprehensive set of water quality programs that also provided some financing for state and local governments. Enforcement was limited to interstate waters.
Lawmakers, for the record, passed a law that automatically gives them cost of living bumps, but they have blocked those since 2009, as we all learned when their first potential pay raise in more ...
Economic studies show that whether the federal government uses a price instrument (like a pollution tax to regulate emissions or a feed-in-tariff to support renewable energy) or a quantity instrument (like an emission trading scheme or auctions of renewable energy capacities) fundamentally changes the incentives for state governments to enforce ...
[175] [176] Industry groups and Republican lawmakers applauded the proposed changes while critics expressed concerns as they are coming at a time of crisis when as many as one million plant and animal species are at risk of extinction. Numerous state attorneys general and environmental groups have said that they will sue the administration over ...
Fertilizer bans under threat. While no legislation has been filed, local governments and environmental advocacy groups fear the state could use this session to extend a pause on a tool used in an ...
Opinion: 6,000 species can't be wrong: Our reefs are precious and Florida lawmakers need to act urgently to protect and preserve the corals. Florida has made progress protecting its coral reefs ...
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.