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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

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Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken

Law and Environment

It also ignored a court order from 2017 requiring EPA to prepare the required determination and redo cyantraniliprole’s registration. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. In fact, EPA did not only ignore the clear statutory requirement.

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DEP To Discuss Proposed Reg. On Reporting Spills, Releases; Draft 2024 Integrated Water Quality Report With Water Resources Advisory Committee Sept. 21

PA Environment Daily

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ). 2015-011-L ).

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Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken

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It also ignored a court order from 2017 requiring EPA to prepare the required determination and redo cyantraniliprole’s registration. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. In fact, EPA did not only ignore the clear statutory requirement.

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What are the main threats to Lake Erie? FAQS – Part 2

Enviromental Defense

This blog is co-authored with Michelle Woodhouse, Water Program Manager Why is Lake Erie especially at risk? Lake Erie algal blooms August 2017 Photo Credit: Aerial Associates Photography, Inc. The water quality was so bad that there were incidents where tributary rivers that empty into Lake Erie caught fire.

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Environmental Quality Board Publishes Final Reg. Setting PFOA/PFOS Drinking Water Standard And The First MCL Developed By DEP

PA Environment Daily

On January 14, the Environmental Quality Board published final regulations to protect Pennsylvanians’ drinking water from PFAS chemicals by setting new limits on two forms of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the first drinking water maximum contaminant level developed by the DEP. Read more here.

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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission

Law Columbia

Construction and operation of an interstate natural gas pipeline requires a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (“FERC”) under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. The Corps issued NWP 12 in 1977, and most recently reissued NWP 12 in 2017. In April of this year, the U.S.