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. Clean Water Act. , Using the Clean Water Act tool of. The Clean Water Act requires states to set.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. To qualify for the federal dollars, the water body must be impaired and have an approved plan. In 2008, EPA designated the entire watershed as impaired. Robert Casey (D-Pa.)

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 25, 2008

By Claire Bienvenu On May 23, 2008, the Ninth Circuit vacated EPA’s rule exempting discharges of sediment resulting from oil and gas construction activities from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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Acoel

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2022, the on-going debate will continue over the hotly contested definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), a phrase that determines the scope of federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waterbodies under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Proposed Rule 2.

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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. But this decision is about more than wetlands and water. Q: What does th e Sackett v.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2008, there were 400,000 with over 90% of them in captive herds with a gradual increase in wild herds of both plains and woodland bison. Nevertheless, their numbers are increasing, both in captivity and in the wild. Their status today is “Near Threatened”. Bat Conservation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. Once Cleared Harmful Blooms. did it once before. .

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Vermont Law

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, Ecuador. Clean Water Act, passed in 1972 over President Nixon’s veto. that 46% of river and stream miles, 32% of wetland areas, and 18% of coastal and Great Lakes waters are in “poor biological condition.” EPA reports. Healthy Waters Act. human right to water for basic needs.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) erred in its analyses of climate change’s impact on the Rio Grande cutthroat trout when it determined in 2014 that the species no longer warranted listing under the Endangered Species Act. Stephenson v.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few. As well, the CBD argues that “expeditious construction” language in the statute requires barriers to be built as soon as possible after the law’s enactment, which has already elapsed under the 2008 deadline.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. Train, 420 U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. On April 6, the court issued written reasons for its decision.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The approval of the permit was therefore contrary to law because climate change had to be considered “to some extent” in order for Ecology to act consistently with implementing regulations under the Clean Water Act and the Water Pollution Control Act. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Water worries. The EPA has identified more than 21,000 large CAFOs across the country but just 6,266 of those operate with wastewater discharge permits under the Clean Water Act designed to control and restrict pollutants discharged into waterways, according to EPA figures. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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