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

Vermont Law

This pollution causes detrimental effects to our communities, land, and marine life. The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. CHOATE, AGRICULTURE AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT 147 (Mary Jane Angelo et al.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

Circle of Blue

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

James, a faith-based grassroots organization fighting to reduce pollution in the community, and lawyers at Earthjustice, a national nonprofit environmental law organization, and other community groups led the years long battle. billion complex in St. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp., Texas, and Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. At the same time, Regan and his water chief, Radhika Fox, have said they want to craft a more “durable” definition of the scope of protections.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. Clean Water Act: In what will be one of the most important final environmental rulings in the history of the U.S., EPA and Army Corps of Engineers – Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States”. Executive Branch. International. E&E News.

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