The 87
th Legislative Session s filing
deadline of March 12, 2021 has come and gone, giving us an
opportunity to survey the full suite of environmental bills –
air, water, waste, procedural – that will be considered,
debated, and voted upon by state lawmakers by the end of June.
Below, we detail the proposed House and Senate budgets for Article
VI (Natural Resource) agencies, and discuss some of the most
important pieces of legislation under consideration at the Capitol.
You can access a list of bill summaries using
this link.
Last summer, the palpable concern was that COVID-19 restrictions
would wipe out the state budget. In July 2020, the Comptroller conservatively estimated a
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Bailey s Field in Darwen A group of residents fighting to save a field from housing developers will need to wait eight weeks before they find out whether the land can be listed as an asset of community value . The row over the potential development of Bailey s Field in Darwen escalated last week, when residents living close to Ellison Fold Way set up a Parkland Trust to try and protect the field, which many people use for recreational purposes. Bailey s Field, Darwen The council received an application from Altham-based McDermott Homes back in February, proposing for more than 300 new houses to be built on the field, but after concerns were raised over the dangers of open mineshafts, which had been found on the site, as well as the loss of wildlife habitats, residents nominated Bailey s Field to be listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV).
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