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EPA Alumni Association: An Open Letter To EPA Administrator & Congress - We’re Not Done Yet!

PA Environment Daily

Sign Off DER [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Before The Federal Clean Water Act, There Was The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1899 To Help Clean-Up Pittsburghs 3 Rivers - By James M. Environmental & Energy Law Section [PaEN] -- Ridge-Schweiker: DEP Secretary James M. Seif: The Assignment Was Clear - Take The Kick Me!

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Superfund Me: A High-Level Overview of Climate Change Superfund Bills

Vermont Law

The specific issue before the Court was whether a consent decree under the Clean Water Act (CWA) could trigger the three-year statute of limitations under CERCLA. Navy stemming from a toxic waste and ammunition disposal site.

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Changing Crucial Definition In Endangered Species Act Undermines Purpose Of Klamath Dam Removal

Circle of Blue

Led by new public concern about the consequences of industrialization, landmark environmental legislation in the 1970s steadily assured protections for air, water, and wildlands. The Bureau of Reclamation shut off the Project’s irrigation water, citing critical conditions for fish as laid out by the ESA.

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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

Seif: -- Feature-- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- 1995-2002- DEP Secretary James M. Seif: The Assignment Was Clear - Take The Kick Me! Seif [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: In Praise Of Rachel Carson And Public Service; Happy Birthday Rachel Carson!

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 10.8.22

PA Environment Daily

Oz At Odds Over Natural Gas, Environmental Concerns -- DEP Awards $3 Million To Restore Watersheds Statewide By Reducing Water Pollution [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Section-American Society Of Civil Engineers: Federal Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Celebration Oct.

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UNC Nutrient Study: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again (Apologies to Yogi Berra)

Smith Enviorment

The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. On December 23, 2019, the UNC Policy Collaboratory released a legislatively mandated report on nutrient pollution in Jordan Lake. Background. That isn’t broken.

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Elk River Spill Aftermath: Do We Need New Regulations and From Whom?

Vermont Law

Boehner is right in thinking that the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) and Clean Water Act (CWA). And Freedom Industries’ chemical tanks were operating within loopholes large enough to fit, well, tanker trucks of drinking water. have addressed the spill.