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.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The Circuit Court reversed in part, but the whole issue was mooted by the passage in mid-October of 1972 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 0f 1972. Resource Links: -- Attorney General Thornburgh’s Address to the Oceans ‘88 Conference on October 31, 1988 -- Gov. Photos: Gov. Dick Thornburgh and James M.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. (credit: Amazon).
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam. USA: How many burial sites are on the land where Formosa Plastics plans to build? USA: Formosa Plastics Corp., Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corp.,
Legal Planet
AUGUST 4, 2022
What wetlands and waterbodies does the Clean Water Act protect? A little quick background: The term “navigable waters” traditionally meant water bodies that could be used for transportation. When it passed the Clean Water Act, Congress redefined the term to mean “waters of the United States.”
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible. 1:21-cv-11390 (D.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
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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