2010 Clean Water Act Politics Regulations 
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 17, 2023
Tough cleanup goals Under a 2010 cleanup plan, formally known as the Bay’s total maximum daily load, the EPA assigned all six states in the Chesapeake watershed, along with the District of Columbia, specific goals for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, the two nutrients largely responsible for the Bay’s poor water quality.
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Vermont Law
APRIL 6, 2015
But, an even bigger challenge remains—regulation of chicken litter dumped into the Bay by the Delmarva Peninsula’s poultry industry. People who love the Maryland Eastern Shore talk with pride about the bounty of the water—. It is hopeful that the Chesapeake Bay States have started to ban lawn fertilizers containing phosphorus.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
But this is a city where 20 percent of residents report “often” or “always” reducing their spending on basic needs to afford their water bill. Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. Coulter has a particularly keen interest. He was 19 when he died. If the U.S.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . . – Photographs by J.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. . Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.
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