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Action: 2019 Budget

Smith Enviorment

Additional funds to address emerging contaminants through water quality permitting. The positions include two new engineers to work on issuance and renewal of Clean Water Act wastewater discharge permits. The project, restoration of Little Alamance Creek in Burlington, was completed in 2012-2013.

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Must CEQA Compliance Precede Project Approval? When State Water Board Water Quality Certifications Are Involved, The Answer Is As “Clear as Mud”

CEQA Developments

California Air Resources Board (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th As relevant here, the Court held that the responsible agency regional board (the SWRCB’s agent) was not barred from completing CEQA review, and imposing additional mitigation requirements based on that review, on the lead agency water district’s approved flood control project.

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Incentivizing Ecosystem Services: Agroecology as a Solution to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Vermont Law

The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. However, these structures have not sufficiently addressed agriculture’s impact on the nation’s water resources. to reduce otherwise externalized wastes.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

China requires its large livestock operations to treat manure, in some cases with engineered wastewater treatment plants, before spreading livestock wastes on farmland. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. The cost of the project: $200,000.

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The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

E2 Law Blog

After all, New York’s air permitting regime is based on health-based emissions standards derived from the federal Clean Air Act. The same goes for New York’s clean water regulations, which in some ways go beyond the dictates of the federal Clean Water Act. Envt’l Def. Commonwealth , 161 A.3d

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Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters

Circle of Blue

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. You can think of chloride as a permanent pollutant in the water,” said Christe Alwin of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

In the first complaint, the Center alleged that a chemical manufacturer and importer headquartered in Akron, Ohio, had failed to report 843,047 pounds of tetrabromobisphenol A bis(2,3-dibromopropyl ether) and five other substances that it imported during the 2013–2015 reporting period. The House bill ( H.R.

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