Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. The petition asserts that because every CAFO discharges polluting wastes EPA has the authority and duty to require them to operate under wastewater permits. CAFOs, though, are the only industrial polluting facilities not required to treat their wastes.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. That means establishing pollution control limits on chemicals as soon as they’re approved for use.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 2, 2023
These reductions are greater than what was projected for the 2022 and 2021 proposals, thanks to changes that strengthen provisions to limit wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas and analytical updates that better capture the impacts of this rulemaking. Click Here for EPA announcement.
Corp Watch
JUNE 7, 2023
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.
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. In 2014, the USDA received a budget of $157.5
Environmental Science
JULY 30, 2018
Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th CEQA requires an EIR to analyze a project’s energy consumption, and to mitigate any significant impacts “due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary use of energy, or wasteful use of energy resources[.]” (CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.2(b); a), (1), Appendix F.)
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