As many are no doubt aware, bi-partisan squabbles over the amount of federal funding given to FEMA for disaster relief nearly de-railed Congress from passing a one-week spending measure that would fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year (which ends Friday), resulting in the second close breeze in the last two [...]
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9 Aug
Government Shutdown Versus The Environment
An article published in Law360 by law firm Faegre & Benson used as an example the recent government shutdown in Minnesota to demonstrate the potentially unforeseen impacts of such a shutdown on the environment and environmental regulation. The most tangible interruption seemed to be the permitting and review process usually undertaken by the Minnesota Pollution [...]
