Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Occasional opposition to local pollution problems and the casual animal cruelty that characterize conventional US dairy, hog, and poultry production did little to alter practices that are embedded in the rural landscape. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. That may be changing.

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Clean Water Act 2011 Regulations Waste 360

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For Platte Lake, the solution was controlling the source of contamination: the 94-year-old Platte River State Fish Hatchery in Honor, eight miles upstream. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination.

Law 290

Law Waste Clean Water Act 2022 290

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004.

2016 52

2016 Air Pollution 2017 Waste 52

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. The plaintiffs contended that the U.S.

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2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40