Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. Water worries. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. 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. Six months later the U.S.
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Vermont Law
MARCH 24, 2014
If proven, this would constitute violations of the federal Clean Water Act. _. Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. By Kelly Nokes.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. An average of more than 130 million liters were spread on Pennsylvania roads each year from 2008 to 2014.
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 25, 2013
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.
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.)
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The key difference according to the US National Park Service is that conservation ethics seeks the “proper use” of natural resources while preservation seeks to protect nature against any kind of use. This concern about natural resources meant the 19 th century was also a great expansion in conservation in other areas.
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