Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. EPA established an accountability framework and state water pollution limits (TMDLs) for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment.

2011

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) echoed this sentiment stating, “I am entirely confident that there are ample regulations already on the books to protect the health and safety of the American people.” Boehner is right in thinking that the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) and Clean Water Act (CWA).

Regulations

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

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The EPA finalizes guidance for balancing sewage system improvements with financial burdens to residential water bills. Republicans take aim at the Biden administration’s definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. Domestic production of salt , a water pollutant, remained steady in 2022.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency visited four this spring to assess any potential for water quality problems locally or for the Chesapeake Bay. Budget cuts forced the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to slash inspection and enforcement staff. That may seem like a drop in the bucket.

Conservation

Vermont Law

MARCH 10, 2014

In 2010, after nearly three decades of failed efforts to restore the Bay individually, the surrounding Bay states began collaborating with the Environmental Protection Agency. the pollution limits, finding statutory support in the Clean Water Act and 33 U.S.C.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7 The cost share could be the same as the early Clean Water Act support to curb point source pollution from municipal wastewater treatment plants.

Law

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings. If the U.S.

2016

ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research.

2021

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

2017

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Four environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging the U.S. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.).

2020

ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s topline budget is $10.13 The EPA announced a new Clean Water Rule in Dec. In this case, Chantell and Michael Sackett sought a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to develop wetlands on their Idaho property that was denied. This includes $307.2

2023

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. 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.

2020

ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Nominations: President Biden nominated Christopher Frey to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant adminstrator for research and development. Overall, academic institutions perform about half of all U.S. basic research and federal agencies fund more than half of all academic research and development. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.

2021

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months.

2021

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Our gaze into the crystal ball quickly and confidently told us all that we need to know about President-elect Trump’s views about the federal agency tasked with protecting the environment: he hates it. Environmental protection, what they do is a disgrace; every week they come out with new regulations.”. [34]. Climate Change.

2016