MGKF Law

AUGUST 30, 2022

In order to bring a citizen suit in federal district court under the Clean Water Act, 33 USC § 1365(a)(1), the plaintiff must first give “notice of the alleged violation” to the alleged violator, the EPA, and the State at least 60 days prior to commencing suit. In Shark River Cleanup Coalition v. §135.3(a).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

The citizen suit cites Modern Landfill’s repeated violations of its water quality-based permit limits under the federal Clean Water Act, and unpermitted discharges of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). However, in June 2022, PFOS and PFOA in Kreutz Creek were measured at 374.3

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

1972 , Congress passes the Clean Water Act, which requires a federal permit for filling or dredging in “navigable waters,” defined as the “waters of the United States.” Obama Administration issues Waters of the United States (WOTUS rule), which ignites a major political dispute and becomes mired in litigation.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

will pay a $230,000 penalty to settle alleged federal Clean Water Act violations at its fruit processing facility in Peach Glen, Adams County. It’s crucial for us to hold polluters like this accountable to protect our water,” said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. On December 14, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

50K 2022 Trash Challenge The shock of the amount, paired with the determination of these partners, sparked an idea. Let’s continue to join forces and set a goal to remove 50,000 pounds of trash by the end of 2022, honoring the 50th Anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. A total of 3.6

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The third priority is improving the treatment plant, which came online back in the 1970s, the same decade the Clean Water Act was signed into law. Cradeur acknowledges that grants like those coming from the American Rescue Plan Act are important for renewing rural infrastructure and keeping services affordable.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 23, 2022

HotSpots H2O: In Besieged Ukraine, Water Again a Locus of Conflict – Water has long been a source of geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on a database that documents the rising number of violent clashes involving water. Yemen forces attacked a Saudi water desalination facility.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Robin Kundis Craig. The Supreme Court is stepping once more into Clean Water Act “waters of the United States,” more popularly known as WOTUS. If you’re a Clean Water Act wonk, there may be a little voice in the back of your head yelling, “Theeeey’re baaack!”

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

The roughly $50 billion for water and sewer systems in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law by President Biden last November, will be the largest federal infusion of money into the sector in a half century, ever since the Clean Water Act led to construction grants for modern sewage treatment.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4 th 359 (2022) (Supreme Court granted cert. Applying Clean Water Act to shrimp trawlers’ dumping of bycatch back in the ocean. Rule requiring fishing ships to pay for an observer to check for violations of fishing limits. Lopez Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , 45 F.4 but not on this issue). Yes , a major question.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Republicans take aim at the Biden administration’s definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. Domestic production of salt , a water pollutant, remained steady in 2022. By the Numbers 42 Million Tons : Domestic salt production in 2022, according to U.S. Geological Survey figures. is for deicing roads.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

In this issue: Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Congress passed an omnibus spending bill completing appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. NSF receives a four percent increase. ESA Stands with Ukraine. Federal Register opportunities.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

The environmental and community groups argue that in granting the permit, West Virginia’s environmental agency violated the Clean Water Act. The post The Stream, January 6, 2022: Rain Forecasts Could Boost Brazil’s Electricity Sector appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Registration is now open for the 2022 Watershed Congress to be held in-person and online at the Montgomery County Community College campus in Pottstown on October 22. To register and for more information, visit the 2022 Watershed Congress website. Posted: October 5, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: As Dust Settles in Tonga After Volcanic Eruption, Drinking Water Now the ‘Biggest Life-Saving Issue’ – Ocean water and volcanic ash have contaminated the drinking water of tens of thousands of people in the Pacific Island nation. In context: EPA Clean Water Rule Meets Political Pushback.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. By Karl Mathiessen, Zia Weise and Joshua Posaner, PoliticoPro, 4/4/2022. Jared Huffman (D-CA) said that he will delay work on overhauling the Magnuson Stevens Act until after Alaska elects a new congressperson to replace the late Rep.

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National Law Center

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The post Top Environmental Law Topics from 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. Over the past year, the environmental law arena has seen various issues and developments that have had impacts on agriculture.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. The bill largely keeps government programs funded at their fiscal year 2022 levels. 14 to 21, 2022.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

Spending bills for fiscal years FY 2022 and FY 2023 have fallen short of appropriating the amount included in similar authorizing legislation. The House and Senate had been negotiating a compromise between the America COMPETES Act and the Senate’s U.S. Innovation and Competition Act since May 2022. billion in FY 2022.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? 2587 (2022) (Chief Justice Roberts). Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. Train, 420 U.S. West Virginia v.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation Toxic manure discharges from large livestock operations is major source of water pollution. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – December 1, 2022. Water worries. EPA is weak on regulations on CAFOs,” said Emily Miller, a Food & Water Watch attorney.

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National Law Center

JANUARY 6, 2022

Environmental law issues were at the forefront in 2021, and 2022 is shaping up to be no different. With on-going lawsuits, The post Environmental Law Topics to Watch in 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2022

The PA Parks and Forests Foundation’s 2022 Parks & Forests Thru The Seasons Photo Contest is now accepting entries. 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. The deadline is September 30.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Agricultural nutrient pollution is the primary reason that the Clean Water Act has not come close to meeting its “fishable and swimmable” goal for US surface waters. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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National Law Center

JULY 22, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: July 22, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. September 15, 2022 . 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.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 26, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 26, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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National Law Center

JULY 21, 2022

The first half of 2022 has seen a lot of development in the area of environmental law. The post Environmental Law Highlight: Developments From the First Half of 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. From lawsuits to regulatory.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sanders and progressive Democrats in the House are opposing Manchin’s permitting proposal, citing concerns that the reforms would helps fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act ( S.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Senate Appropriations Committee boosts spending for Bureau of Reclamation water programs in a 2022 budget bill. Feds propose a settlement over a 2014 incident in North Dakota that was the largest inland spill of produced water from oil production. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For a further account of his Refuse Act prosecution, see his autobiography, “ Where The Evidence Leads.” Posted: October 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest Dick Thornburgh was US Attorney in Pittsburgh, and later a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania and Attorney General of the United States. He died in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act involving illegal discharges of plastics from their plastic manufacturing facility in Monaca, Beaver County. Our right as private citizens and citizen groups to directly enforce the federal Clean Water Act against violators is a critical tool we can use to achieve that goal.”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

September 8, 2022 . TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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Environmental Law Prof Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Earlier this week, a federal district court in North Dakota enjoined implementation of a major Clean Water Act rule. The rule, which EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers jointly enacted late in 2022, would determine which aquatic features.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

WQS are provisions of state, territorial, or authorized tribal law approved by the EPA, or established in federal law by the EPA, that describe the desired uses of a water body and the criteria necessary to achieve and protect those uses. Click Here to learn more about the proposed rule, public hearings and how to comment.

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