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Fresh, May 2, 2023: Mississippi River Flooding Reaches Historic Levels Along Illinois-Iowa Border

Circle of Blue

Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. In releasing this wastewater the facility violated a national permit, though according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the majority of the release was “clear storm water” and the threat to public health is “slim.”

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Fighting Big Coal––Washington Judge Allows Novel Clean Water Act Citizens’ Suit to Proceed

Vermont Law

Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. On March 12, 2014, the Honorable John C. Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway Co., C13-0967-JCC (W.D. Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway Co., 2:13-cv-00272-LRS (E.D. In that opinion, Judge Lonny R.

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Blurred Lines: The Importance of Delineation Between Legislative and Non-legislative Rules Under the APA

Vermont Law

In March of 2014, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued an “interpretive rule” regarding section 404 of the Clean Water Act, circumventing a notice and comment period. Section 404(f)(1)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Summary. : Not all agency rules have the force of law. 1344(f)(1)(A)).

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J.

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EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old

PA Environment Daily

‘Methane pollution and associated toxics are linked to birth defects, asthma, cancer, and more. Since 2014, over a half-million pro-life Christians have called for the end of unnecessary practices by the oil and gas industry that carelessly waste methane and emit toxic pollutants into the air we breathe. “The

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. CEI also sought email correspondence between the two officials and people at the Natural Resources Defense Council or World Wildlife Fund. In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. 17-2780, 17-2806 (2d Cir.

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