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Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality

PA Environment Daily

According to these computer simulations, pollution controls put into place between 2009 and 2020 are estimated to have lowered overall nitrogen by 13 percent, overall phosphorus by 14 percent and sediment by 4 percent. Climate change is real and making saving the Bay harder.

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Ohio River Basin Alliance Responds To Listing Of Ohio River As America's 2nd Most Endangered River In The Nation

PA Environment Daily

The Ohio River has made tremendous progress through the processes of both The Safe Drinking Water Act and The Clean Water Act. ORBA’s primary goal is to have Congress recognize the Ohio River Basin as threatened and deserving of sustained funding.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

Louisiana, will spend more than $10 million on pollution controls to address air, water, and hazardous waste violations at two petrochemical plants in Point Comfort, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La. Department of Justice | September 29, 2009 The companies also have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2.8

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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For Platte Lake, the solution was controlling the source of contamination: the 94-year-old Platte River State Fish Hatchery in Honor, eight miles upstream. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. Clean Water Act: In what will be one of the most important final environmental rulings in the history of the U.S.,

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