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Proposition 4, titled Authorizing bonds for safe drinking water, wildlife prevention, and protecting communities and natural lands from climate risks, was a California ballot proposition and legislative statutes that passed by vote on in the 2024 general election on November 5, 2024.
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act is clean water act of California that expanded the enforcement authority of the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 Regional Water Quality Control Boards. The act provided for the California Environmental Protection Agency to create the local boards and better protect water rights and water ...
Act 2002 - 521 on integrated pollution prevention and control (amendment) Act 2004 - 99 on Fishery; Act 2005 - 7 amending Act No. 185/2001 – Coll. on waste and on amendment to some other laws; Decree 2004 – 382 – on the protection of farm animals at the time of slaughter, killing or other ways of putting to death
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at reducing light pollution, citing concerns about costs.
The first FWPCA was enacted in 1948, but took on its modern form when completely rewritten in 1972 in an act entitled the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Major changes have subsequently been introduced via amendatory legislation including the Clean Water Act of 1977 [ 5 ] and the Water Quality Act (WQA) of 1987.
The National Green Tribunal established under the National Green Tribunal Act of 2010 [102] has jurisdiction over all environmental cases dealing with a substantial environmental question and acts covered under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Rules, 1978; Ganga Action ...
The Wisconsin state Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would unlock $125 million to help municipalities and landowners cope with pollution from so-called forever chemicals. PFAS, short for per ...
The state Senate in Massachusetts has passed a wide-ranging bill curtailing the use of plastics, including barring the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. The bill, approved ...