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Post-Sackett, Who Will Speak for the Clean Water Act?

Law and Environment

Stamford, CT, USA – November 18, 2012: “The Lorax” balloon is one of the many hot air balloons participating in the city of Stamford annual “Thanksgiving Day Parade” held in the downtown area of the city. It’s a short history of everything people love to hate about government bureaucracy.

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Wetlands, the Clean Water Act & the Supreme Court: the Sacketts Return to Washington

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21-454, an important appeal involving the scope of federal authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act. Earlier this month, Legal Planet colleague Dan Farber wrote a typically-thoughtful post on this site aptly titled, “The Quagmire of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction.” USEPA , No.

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Federal Water Tap, April 3: DHHS Seeks Household Water Debt Data

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The last new facility to come online was in 2012. News Briefs Congress Passes Resolution to Overturn Administration’s Clean Water Rules The Senate joined the House in passing a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s rules for determining which water bodies are protected by the federal Clean Water Act.

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This isn’t an early April Fools joke — the US Forest Service is applying for a NPDES permit to keep fighting forest fires!

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Posted on March 28, 2023 by Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that the United States Forest Service is going to work with EPA to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage under the Federal Clean Water Act authorizing it to continue fighting forest fires from the air.

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The Stream, May 3, 2023: Native Hawai’i Farmers Advocate For Land Back While Restoring Historic Water Systems

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The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters. Amidst drought, farmers in southern Taiwan are being paid not to grow crops as the government reserves water for semiconductor production.

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Federal Water Tap, January 31: Supreme Court to Review Wetlands Case

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The nation’s highest court will again take on the Clean Water Act. The nation’s highest court will once again interpret the reach of the Clean Water Act, the foundational environmental law whose scope has been the subject of court and administrative battles for more than three decades. The Rundown.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.