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The Supreme Court Looks for a Middle Ground to Determine When Clean Water Act Permit is Required for Discharges to Groundwater

The Energy Law Blog

where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. 33 U.S.C. ยงยง 1311(a), 1362(12)(A); see also 33 U.S.C. 1342 (NPDES provisions). 22250 (Apr.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Van Wagner has spent 38 years in Lenawee County promoting environmentally sensitive nutrient management and cultivation practices. . A Weakened National Imperative.

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

The Energy Law Blog

To understand the stormwater permit requirements for oil and gas activities, you need to review not only the regulations that remain in force, but also the Clean Water Act as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. CWA ยง402(l)(2). 3d 591 (9th Cir. See 73 Fed.

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Policy News: May 6, 2021

ESA

At this point, the administration has failed to develop its policy beyond a catchy tagline,โ€ House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Rep. The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Joe Manchin (D-WV) opposed this nomination.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

6, 2012). [7]. Our gaze into the crystal ball quickly and confidently told us all that we need to know about President-elect Trumpโ€™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.โ€. [34].

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxonโ€™s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. The Ninth Circuit ruled that the plaintiffs did not have standing for their remaining claims.

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