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Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay Host April 4 Caring For Our Local Waterways Webinar

PA Environment Daily

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014. She also was the former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Environment where she developed substantial initiatives on climate change and the Chesapeake Bay.

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You Cannot Just Read the Regulations to Understand Stormwater Permitting for Oil and Gas Activities!

The Energy Law Blog

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) added language creating a permitting exemption for uncontaminated runoff from Oil and Gas operations.

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CBF Blog: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Partners Create Unique Watershed Restoration Plan For Halfmoon Creek In Centre County

PA Environment Daily

The plan has been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. In 2008, EPA designated the entire watershed as impaired.

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Sackett and the Dangers of a New ‘Clear-Statement Rule’

Legal Planet

EPA limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to defend a large portion of the nation’s wetlands and waterways from pollution. But this decision is about more than wetlands and water. Photo by Joe Ravo (CC-BY-SA 3.0) The Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. Q: What does th e Sackett v.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Deeper into the 1960s, Richard Nixon signed the executive order creating the Environmental Protection Agency. It is not technically a subcategory of the science of conservation.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

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. There are many others. In 2009, the U.S.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al.

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