ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 29, 2022

Schulman observed such a scenario at the Philadelphia Water Department in the late ’90s. At the time, the utility was under pressure by the state environmental agency to develop a plan to manage its sewage overflows in compliance with the federal Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., 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. It was a career shift.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2017

Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938. However, such a line still requires state Water Quality Certification under the Clean Water Act § 401. The Constitution Pipeline was granted federal permits.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

EPA: The agency issued a rare Clean Water Act veto, further stopping the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. This follows an Army Corps of Engineers decision made late in the Trump administration to block Clean Water Act permits for the mine. Nominations are due March 2, 2023.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2013

Circuit Court of Appeals held that the EPA’s veto authority under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C.§ By Bob Holden and Jillian Marullo On April 23, 2013, in a case of first impression, the D.C. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”). The EPA then initiated its veto process through notice and comment action.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” 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. In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Australia passes first climate legislation since 2011. Australia’s first climate law since 2011 seals green comeback – The Straits Times. ‘I Domestic Climate Czar Gina McCarthy to leave the White House this week, Biden hires new climate advisors. California passes climate legislation. International. Scientific Community.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

EPA: Administrator Michael Regan announced that that agency will repeal the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Water Rule. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to sufficiently explain why the findings underlying its 2011 decision no longer apply.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 10, 2014

In 2011, a coalition of agricultural and special interest groups led by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Association of Home Builders challenged the pollution diet in federal district court. the pollution limits, finding statutory support in the Clean Water Act and 33 U.S.C.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sanders and progressive Democrats in the House are opposing Manchin’s permitting proposal, citing concerns that the reforms would helps fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. universities from 2011 to 2020 Sept. granting U.S. 28 at 1:00pm.

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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. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We will eliminate the highly invasive “Waters of the US” rule, and scrap the $5 trillion Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth’s climate. [41]. 29, 2011), [link]. [30].

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

EPA is collecting information to support future Clean Water Act rulemaking for effluent limitations guidelines, pretreatment standards, and new source performance standards for manufacturers in this category, as well as potential revisions to such guidelines and standards for formulators. 14560 (Mar. 17, 2021).]]

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R. 33926 (June 28, 2021).]]

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. With respect to climate change, the federal defendants argued that the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

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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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