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EPA Encourages Consideration of Ocean Acidification in Clean Water Act Impairment Listings

The Energy Law Blog

Moreno : On November 15, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. By Carlos J. For more information on the Memorandum, see: [link]

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

Circle of Blue

ECCSCM established one of the most extensive citizen-led water monitoring networks in the country. Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. Henning is a farmer, too.

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The Fifth Circuit Rejects the DOJ’s Attempt to Charge Black Elk Contractors with OCSLA Felonies

The Energy Law Blog

The contractors were also charged with certain misdemeanor Clean Water Act violations. In 2010, Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC (“Black Elk”) owned and operated a production facility on the West Delta 32 Lease Block located in the Gulf of Mexico. United States v. Moss, et al , No. 16-30561 (5th Cir.

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Transforming a 3000 Acre Steelmaking Complex from Hazardous Waste Site to a Restoration Success

Acoel

By 2010, after 30 years with Crowell & Moring, I was doing pro bono work with the Chesapeake Legal Alliance. A series of successors struggled unsuccessfully, with vastly scaled back operations, to produce steel. Virtually nothing was spent to contain the vast amounts of hazardous waste which continued to migrate offsite.

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EPA Runs from CWA Veto Powers, Spawning New Life for the Pebble Mine Project

Vermont Law

This waste requires treatment in perpetuity because any release of waste into ground or surface waters would likely devastate the salmon runs. Given the high record of failure rate for such impoundments and the fact that the area is seismically active, a breach appears to be more a question of when than if.

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Fracking in Michigan: How Drilling for Natural Gas Could Impact the Great Lakes

Vermont Law

In 2010, the Antrim shale became the U.S.’s The Collingwood/Utica shale is a much deeper formation than the Antrim shale, and in 2010, 5.5 million gallons of water was used in this active fracking well, producing an average of 2.5 Fracking has been employed in Michigan. million cubic feet of natural gas a day for 30 days.

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Chesapeake Bay Journal: EPA Launches More Collaborative Water Quality Impact Assessments Of PA Farms

PA Environment Daily

Tough cleanup goals Under a 2010 cleanup plan, formally known as the Bay’s total maximum daily load, the EPA assigned all six states in the Chesapeake watershed, along with the District of Columbia, specific goals for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, the two nutrients largely responsible for the Bay’s poor water quality.