Acoel

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On October 15 th a large mob engaged in a public and ritualistic violation of the Clean Water Act in Knoxville, Tennessee. There can be no doubt the mob’s actions violated the Clean Water Act. In addition to government enforcement proceedings, the threat of a citizen suit cannot be overlooked.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Climate Law Could Make Midwest Water Contamination Worse Billions in clean energy incentives rely on raw materials from polluting corn and livestock. environmental organizations, and climate activists were appropriately enthused last summer when Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act. The law enables the U.S.D.A.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On October 19, member of Congress Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia) joined with environmental advocates and the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed (CDRW) at Bartram’s Garden to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the federal Clean Water Act.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As some of you know, Section 401 of the Clean Water Act requires that States and Tribes have the opportunity to certify their acceptance of activities that may result in a “discharge” into a “Water of the United States” before the Federal government issues a permit or license authorizing those activities.

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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.” Riverside Bayview Home s, the Court upheld federal jurisdiction over wetlands that are adjacent to water bodies.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. One subject stood outside the political turmoil: environmental law. We cannot accept that conclusion.”

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The wetlands at issue are separated by a 30-foot road from an unnamed tributary that feeds into a non-navigable creek that feeds into Priest Lake, a navigable but wholly intrastate water body. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA , 598 U.S. at (slip op.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Given Justice Breyer’s announced retirement, it seems like a good time to assess his contribution to environmental law. As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. Most observers expected the Court to rule for the county.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

It also adopted the Scalia plurality’s interpretation of covered “wetlands adjacent” to traditional navigable waters under CWA § 1344(g)(1), which governs federal permitting for discharges of dredged or fill material, as wetlands that are “as a practical matter indistinguishable from waters of the United States.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Only one witness was able to testify in favor of the rule, San Francisco law professor Dave Owen, but his sober legal analysis was swamped in the flood of invective. Congress set the stage when it passed the Clean Water Act 50 years ago. The law gave the federal government jurisdiction over “navigable waters.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.” Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 29, 2022

Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. In Thailand, the government cancelled a dredging and blasting project that would have straightened a rocky stretch of the Mekong River to accommodate large cargo ships. waters that are fishable and swimmable. Transcript.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

The decision strips key environmental protections from the Clean Water Act by narrowly defining which bodies of water can be regulated under the Act, making it the most important water-related case in decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. Water worries. Milking parlor in Lenawee County. to try again.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. By the Numbers. $15 Studies and Reports.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Our fellows serve in limited-term academic appointments at UCLA Law to support our research, teaching, and public service initiatives. Our new fellows join Beth Kent, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2020-22. – Daniel Carpenter-Gold joins us as a Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2021-23.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When the a law is focused on one impact of coal, attempts to take into account other harms can get mired in controversies about considering “co-benefits” and direct versus indirect or cumulative impacts. The existence of these laws is a testament to the environmental harms of the activity. Combustion of fuels is an even bigger problem.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

million in federal grants channeled through state and parish governments. The American Rescue Plan Act — the relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 11, 2021 — set aside $350 billion to assist states, tribes, territories, and local governments in responding to financial challenges wrought by the pandemic.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This week Circle of Blue reports on the huge water infrastructure investments being made by state and local governments , thanks to billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funds. To complete the sewer work, the district will receive nearly 6 million dollars in federal grants channeled through state and parish governments.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The DRBC will continue to work with the EPA, our state environmental agencies, and stakeholders to plan for the implementation of revised aquatic life use standards proposed in this rulemaking to improve water quality in the Delaware River Estuary.” Reaction “Today we thank the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

I think it’s safe to read this case as opening the door to future challenges to a whole host of regulations,” said Kirti Datla, of the environmental law nonprofit Earthjustice. This is a time when we need greater agility from our government, not less,” Eklund said. Advocates are not holding their breath for nimble action by Congress.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

It was only once that shift was made that we could begin to think of contaminated rivers, smog, and clearcutting as part of the same body of law. In other words, it was only then that we could in terms of “environmental law” rather than distinct bodies of rules governing a scattering of different situations.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles is a leader in using the federal Clean Water Act tool of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) to mitigate a major contributing source of marine trash: urban stormwater. the environmental law and policy blog of UCLA Law School and UC Berkeley Law School. . Clean Water Act. ,

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

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. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters Rivers and lakes are becoming saltier while law and practice limit effective responses.

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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. 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. Photographs by J.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in the Sackett case, in which the Sacketts are hoping that SCOTUS will finally issue a clear decision narrowing the scope of jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Here’s hoping that the Court rules for the Government without reaching the question of the proper scope of WOTUS.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an academic, he had sounded a cautious note about government regulation, calling for more deliberation and greater consideration of costs. The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

Supreme Court has issued a decision significantly limiting federal Clean Water Act regulation of wetlands just as the N.C. General Assembly has been moving legislation to limit state water quality protection for wetlands. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution.

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