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Transect Team: Mar 31, 2022
Pop quiz: how many people love putting time, energy, and resources into a project, only to watch it fall through weeks, months, or even years later?...
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Tim Merlino: Mar 24, 2022
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was signed into law on January 1, 1970, responding to mounting pressure from a public increasingly...
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Robin Laine: Feb 9, 2022
In the United States, we used to build fast! We no longer do. Despite the advances in built world technology, environmental permitting is constantly...
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Tim Clark: Feb 3, 2022
We created environmental permitting to protect a way of life that we saw was at risk of irreversible harm. Rachael Carson did not write Silent...
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Tim Merlino: Feb 1, 2022
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) (16 U.S.C. 703-712) is a federal regulation that has made national headlines multiple times in 2021. This...
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Tim Merlino: Jan 20, 2022
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) (IIJA). The IIJA was passed by the...