U.S. Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) recently filed an amendment they are co-sponsoring that would protect drinking water around the country by allowing the federal government to better respond to drinking water emergencies.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation recently released the results of a poll suggesting that residents of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed want their state and local governments to have more authority over water resources than the federal government.
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A student team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) won a People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant of up to $15,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week.
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The National Farmers Union (NFU) supported President Barack Obama’s budget request for fiscal year 2017, praising the foresight of an expanded budget for clean energy research and development (R&D), which will be nearly doubled to $12.8 billion by 2021.
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The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) recently issued a class II air quality permit for a Concord Blue Eagar LLC facility in Apache County, completing the process in a record 85 days.
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The Bureau of Reclamation recently released it 2016 spending plan, which devotes more than half of the $166.3 million appropriated to the bureau in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 to Western drought response.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Michigan expands Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine to Upper Peninsula Baraga, Dickinson, Marquette and Menominee counties
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently awarded a People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant to Mississippi State University (MSU), located in Starkville, which will use the funding to work on a low-cost desalination process.
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The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently submitted a plan to improve water quality in east-central Idaho’s Upper Salmon River subbasin, which it hopes will reduce levels of sediment and E. coli bacteria and lower temperatures.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed revisions to its 2005 rule on the Central and Western Long Island Sound Dredged Material Disposal Sites, which would encourage the reduction of dredged material disposal in the Sound’s open waters.
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The House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing recently to discuss “midnight regulations,” or regulations made at the end of a presidential administration, from the Department of Energy (DOE) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently applauded President Barack Obama’s designation of three new national monuments in California: the Sand to Snow National Monument, Mojave Trails National Monument and Castle Mountains National Monument.
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Nineteen projects in Michigan received a total of $3.6 million recently through the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program, a cooperative effort of the Departments of Natural Resources (DNR), Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD).
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U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) recently called the Supreme Court decision to delay implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan a victory for the coal industry.
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The Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB), a Presidential advisory committee, recently discussed environmental infrastructure requirements along the U.S.-Mexico border, including the state of the Rio Grande River and on-going resiliency efforts.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page proposed rule on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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