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TALLAHASSEE - In a relatively rare move, the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday announced approval of a plan to hand over federal permitting authority to Florida for projects that affect wetlands.
Supporters praised the move as helping reduce duplicative state and federal permitting and giving Florida more control over such decisions. Florida is only the third state, joining Michigan and New Jersey, that have received the authority, according to the EPA.
“Our waters and wetlands are critical to our economy and way of life in Florida. As such, it is important for the state to be in charge and take the lead in their protection,” state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein said in a statement released by the EPA. “We are pleased that with the assumption, Florida scientists and permitters will now be accountable for state and federal wetlands permits. DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) staff know the state’s resource
For weeks, Lopez Obrador argued it was prudent to wait until Trump’s legal challenges ended.
At his daily morning news conference, the leftist Lopez Obrador said he sent the incoming American leader a letter praising Biden’s “triumph.”
He stressed the Democratic former vice president’s pro-immigrant stance and suggested the two neighbors work together on the thorny issue, after years of Trump’s unprecedented demands that the Mexican government do more to reduce the flow of U.S.-bound migrants.
“I also want to express my recognition of your position in favor of Mexican and the world’s migrants, which will allow the continuation of our plan to promote development and well-being in southeast Mexico and among the countries of Central America,” Lopez Obrador wrote.
In North Pole, Alaska, Santa Claus is a bastion of blue on a city council as red as Rudolph’s nose Published December 15, 2020
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Print article First things first: Yes, Santa Claus is his legal name. It’s on his government identification, and the mail that arrives at his apartment. A long time ago, he was called Thomas O’Connor. He doesn’t answer to that name anymore. If someone shouted it in the North Pole Safeway, “I wouldn’t even turn my head,” he says.
This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks truth be told that Christmas is a “crass commercial secular spectacle.”
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US President-elect Joe Biden holds his face mask as he campaigns on behalf of Democratic US Senate candidates from Georgia ahead of their January 5 runoff elections, during a rally at Pullman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, December 15, 2020. Reuters pic
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ATLANTA, Dec 16 Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together, President-elect Joe Biden urged Georgians yesterday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in January 5 Senate runoffs.
In a speech that marked his return to the campaign trail a day after the Electoral College confirmed his November 3 election victory, Biden, a Democrat, laid out the stakes of the twin contests in no uncertain terms, warning that leaving the Senate in Republican hands could threaten much of his policy agenda.