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Kansas: Water

The Department of Health and Environment seeks comment on the 2025 Intended Use Plans for the Kansas Public Water Supply Loan Fund and the Kansas Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund. The plans would make additions to the Project Priority List of each program, include estimates and uses of anticipated capitalization grants from EPA, and establish criteria for loan forgiveness and procedures for ranking projects. A hearing will be held June 25, 2024. Comments are due the same date.

Building Food and Nutrition Security and Sovereignty

Development impacts many aspects of the food system, including where food is grown, how far food must travel, where distributors and retailers are placed, and who has access to fresh and nutritious food. By viewing development and its associated impacts through a sustainability and life-cycle lens, we can rethink the role of development and how communities can grow while fostering a strong, inclusive, affordable, accessible, and healthy food system. This Article focuses on the way local governments regulate development and how that impacts the food system.

40 Years of Chesapeake Bay Restoration: Where We Failed and How to Change Course

For more than half a century, the Chesapeake Bay and many of its tributaries have suffered from poor water quality. Compelled by an executive order and litigation, in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load (Bay TMDL) to reduce pollution discharges and thereby restore Bay water quality; unfortunately, the Bay TMDL will fail to meet its 2025 objective.

Annual Review of Chinese Environmental Law Developments: 2023

In China, the year 2023 witnessed the further evolution of environmental protection and development of legislation and rulemaking. This mainly included adoption of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law, revision of the Marine Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China, and adoption of a series of judicial interpretations. This Comment summarizes some of the year’s major developments.

Why Sustainability Needs Antitrust

Sustainability promotes decisions that balance social, environmental, and economic values; antitrust seeks to preserve and promote commercial competition.

The Coastal Property Insurance Crisis

More severe storms and rising sea levels pose a threat to U.S. coastal communities, including millions of homes and businesses. Insured damages to coastal property are steadily increasing, insurance premiums are increasing, and private insurance companies have stopped serving some coastal states. Taken together, the consequences of declining availability and increasing costs constitute a coastal property insurance crisis.

Washington: Climate Change

The Department of Ecology proposed to adopt new regulations governing Climate Commitment Act funds reporting. The regulations would establish reporting requirements for recipients of funding from the Climate Commitment Act accounts to enable the Department to complete an annual report to the state legislature. A hearing will be held June 5, 2024. Comments are due June 28, 2024.

Virginia: Water

The State Water Control Board proposed amendments to regulations governing the water protection permit program and groundwater withdrawal. The amendments would introduce mandates for water auditing plans and leak detection and repair plans. A hearing will be held July 10, 2024. Comments are due July 19, 2024. See https://register.dls.virginia.gov/vol40/iss20/v40i20.pdf (pp. 1686-99).

Utah: Water

The Department of Natural Resources proposed amendments to regulations governing water conservation requirements and incentives. The amendments would clarify defined terms, add flexibility in minimum project sizes, expand evidence proving an applicant is a water end user under contract with a water provider, increase the maximum incentive to $2 per square foot, add notice and cure provisions for participants whose projects initially fail to conform with approved plans, and provide other clarifying language. Comments are due June 14, 2024.