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ELI Report Looks at Trump Administration’s Impact on Environmental Law and Policy and What Lies Ahead
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) recently released Environment 2021: What Comes Next?, a report that looks at the Trump Administration’s impact on environmental law and policy and what lies ahead. ELI states that the report is “a response to growing demand for analysis of how deregulatory initiatives by the Trump Administration will affect environmental protection, governance, ...
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ELI Report Looks at Trump Administration’s Impact on Environmental Law and Policy and What Lies ahead
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) recently released Environment 2021: What Comes Next?, a report that looks at the Trump Administration’s impact on environmental law and policy and what lies ahead. ELI states that the report is “a response to growing demand for analysis of how deregulatory initiatives by the Trump Administration will affect environmental protection, governance, ...
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Failing Grade: New Federal Approach to Environmental Assessment Leaves Canadians at Risk and Without a Voice
A report card issued today by a team of environmental lawyers gives a failing grade to the federal government's new approach to environmental assessment. The report card measures the final content of Bill C-38 - the omnibus Budget Bill passed Monday by the House of Commons - against a checklist of principles endorsed earlier this year by over 55 Canadian organisations coast to coast representing ...
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Obama administration convenes environmental leaders at historic white house environmental justice forum featuring five cabinet secretaries (HQ)
Five Cabinet secretaries and senior officials from a wide range of federal agencies and offices participated in the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice today, illustrating the Obama administration’s commitment to ensuring all Americans have strong federal protection from environmental and health hazards. More than 100 environmental justice leaders from across the country ...
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Conservation group files lawsuit against Department of Energy over southwest energy corridor
On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Environmental Law Center today filed suit in federal court in the central district of California to challenge the Department of Energy's October 2007 designation of the Southwest National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor - a sweeping, 45-million-acre area that includes seven southern California and three Arizona counties - for ...
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California criticizes planned transmission line through park
Local electricity generation would be better for California's environment than San Diego Gas and Electric's proposed Sunrise Powerlink transmission line, state and federal agencies said today in a draft environmental impact report. It is the first official government analysis of the harm that could result from the Powerlink and a review of possible alternatives. Release of the 7,000 page draft ...
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Florida asks citizens to report environmental crime
Public outreach and education will help increase awareness of environmental crimes, and when people are aware of such crimes, they will report them to law enforcement authorities, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, DEP. The state agency intends to encourage this type of reporting by participating this week in the 7th annual National Environmental Crimes Prevention ...
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Conservation groups sue to block electric transmission corridors
Eleven regional and national environmental organizations today announced plans to file suit against the Department of Energy over its final designation of a mid-Atlantic National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor. On October 5, the Energy Department published its order designating two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors - the Mid-Atlantic Corridor, and the Southwest ...
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