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December 31, 2020 By Shelley Byrne
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted inclusion of funds to combat against invasive Asian carp species as part of the recently passed 2020 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
McConnell championed an authorization of $45 million for both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, according to a news release from his office December 21.
A McConnell-inserted allocation creates the $25 million Asian Carp Pilot Program to be administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The program requires that up to 10 projects must be deployed in the Cumberland or Tennessee River watersheds, which includes Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. It amounts to a renewal of a $25 million program instituted in 2020 to help combat the spread of the fish.
Reuters – December 28
The EPA this Monday said it was finalizing the first-ever proposed standards regulating greenhouse gas emissions for commercial airplanes and large business jets to align the United States with international standards. The EPA said it expects “airplanes that are non-compliant [with the new standards] will either be modified and re-certificated as compliant, will likely go out of production before the production compliance date of January 1, 2028, or will seek exemptions.” As a result “EPA is not projecting emission reductions associated with these GHG (greenhouse gas) regulations” nor is it projecting the rule “will cause manufacturers to make technical improvements to their airplanes that would not have occurred” otherwise. In October, a group of 11 states led by California and the District of Columbia urged the EPA to strengthen these standards. The airplanes covered by the proposed rule accounted for 10% of all U.S. transportation greenhouse g
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The Montgomery Lock and Dam near Shippingport, Pa., on Dec. 14, 2015.
Two key pieces of federal legislation recently could shave off years waiting to start construction of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $2.6 billion upper Ohio River project.
The project, still in the design phase, replaces a lock each at the Emsworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Recent legislation the omnibus appropriations and
COVID-19 relief funding package, and the Water Resources Development Act provides more than $1 billion in additional construction dollars over 10 years that should reduce the backlog of inland waterway projects, according to the Waterways Council Inc., a national public policy organization advocating for modernization of the inland waterways.