Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. And then there’s money to prepare for the possibility of dioxane entering the city’s water supply — another pollutant not subject to drinking water regulations.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
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. When an agency issues an interpretive rule, the agency clarifies or explains how an existing statute or regulation is binding on those already subject to it.
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Columbia Climate Law
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. 24, 2014). [8] Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. Footnotes. [1] 14-058 (Or.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th In doing so, it found the County’s EIR deficient in this regard, and stated it was following the Third District’s earlier decision in California Clean Energy Com. 4th 173, 209, my 4/14/14 post on which can be found here.
Vermont Law
APRIL 19, 2019
To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 2, 2023
Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here.
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.
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