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"Supreme Court Restricts The EPA's Authority To Mandate Carbon Emissions" [1]

"The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants."

Climate Change [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NPR [6], 06/30/2022
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"Government Policies Will Not Get UK To Net Zero, Warns Damning Report" [7]

"The government is failing to enact the policies needed to reach the UK’s net zero targets, its statutory advisers have said, in a damning progress report to parliament."

Climate Change [2]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [4]
Europe [9]
Source: Guardian [10], 06/29/2022
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Biden Admin To Hold Its First Oil Drilling Lease Sales On Federal Lands [11]

"The Biden administration is set to hold lease sales for new oil and gas drilling on public lands starting this week and, for the first time, it will implement new regulations for producers."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: The Hill [14], 06/29/2022
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Mich. Court Rules Grand Jury Improperly Indicted Officials In Flint Case [15]

"Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the indictment of former Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and several other officials in connection with the contamination of water in Flint was improper because the grand jury consisted of a single judge."

Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: The Hill [21], 06/29/2022
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"Court: Land Swap For Ariz. Mine Doesn’t Violate Tribal Rights" [22]

"A federal appeals court ruled that a federal land swap giving a Native American tribal holy site in Arizona to a private mining company so it could be the site of a copper mine would not violate the tribe’s religious freedoms."

Economy & Business [12]
Environmental Justice [17]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [4]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Source: E&E News [25], 06/28/2022
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Enviros Hope New Law Will Clean Up Wastewater Nutrient Pollution in Md. [26]

"The Chesapeake Bay Program reported on Wednesday that Maryland’s wastewater treatment facilities, operating in violation of discharge permits, contributed significant increases in nitrogen and phosphorus pollution last year in the bay."

Agriculture [27]
Environmental Health [16]
Fish & Fisheries [28]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Source: Inside Climate News [30], 06/28/2022
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"Dems Look To Federal Lands For Red-State Abortion Access" [31]

"Democratic lawmakers are pressing President Joe Biden to use federal lands to ensure access to abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned long-standing abortion precedent."

Environmental Politics [8]
Forests [32]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [23]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: E&E News [33], 06/28/2022
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"LNG Explosion Shines Light On 42-Year-Old Gas Rules" [34]

"The last time the federal government wrote regulations for the liquefied natural gas industry, Pac-Man was the hot new video game and Ronald Reagan was on his way to the White House for the first time."

Disasters [35]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Health [16]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Transportation [36]
Water & Oceans [19]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: E&E News [37], 06/28/2022
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"Biden, NOAA Announce New Actions On Illegal Fishing" [38]

"President Biden on Monday signed a national security memo aimed at addressing illegal fishing in international waters. The memo seeks to increase international coordination to address labor issues in the fishing industry and remove labor abuses from the supply chain, according to a White House fact sheet."

Fish & Fisheries [28]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
International [39]
Source: The Hill [40], 06/28/2022
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How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [41]

In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.

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