PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The bills were introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ).

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. However, these structures have not sufficiently addressed agriculture’s impact on the nation’s water resources. to reduce otherwise externalized wastes.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. The TMDL caps total releases of the pollutant to the impaired water body. Swine waste management. See an earlier post for an in-depth discussion of S711.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. million from 1978 to 2017. did it once before. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. A last point.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

The request for Pennsylvania to set an MCL for PFAS chemicals came to the Environmental Quality Board in May 2017 from the Delaware RiverKeeper Network. Read more here. Tom Wolf signed an executive order in 2018 , DEP has been committed to protecting Pennsylvanians from the adverse impacts of PFAS.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

China requires its large livestock operations to treat manure, in some cases with engineered wastewater treatment plants, before spreading livestock wastes on farmland. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. The cost of the project: $200,000.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11 billion complex in St.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste. They are vital for life and home to thousands of species. Also, we know that the use of DDT also killed a great many more (30). When damage occurs, it is sometimes not possible to repair them.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Finally, the court found that DOE adequately considered distributional impacts in its evaluation of “public interest” under the Natural Gas Act. 19, 2017); In re Constitution Pipeline Co. ,

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In 2017, several groups filed suit against the EPA for promulgating a rule to exempt CAFOs emissions from reporting requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

CERCLA dictated requirements for closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites, including providing for the liability of people responsible for the hazardous waste and establishing a fund for cleanup if there was no identifiable responsible party. Navy stemming from a toxic waste and ammunition disposal site.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After all, New York’s air permitting regime is based on health-based emissions standards derived from the federal Clean Air Act. The same goes for New York’s clean water regulations, which in some ways go beyond the dictates of the federal Clean Water Act. 2017); Robinson Twp. Envt’l Def.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Court of Appeals issued a ruling that lends legal muscle to a five-year old petition that Food & Water Watch and 36 allies filed to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update CAFO permitting regulations. The Trump and Biden administrations ignored the 2017 petition, meant to compel the E.P.A Water worries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A federal judge overturns the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act definition. Bureau of Reclamation contributes $19 million for a Colorado River water conservation program. from 2017 through 2019 for illnesses related to harmful algal blooms. Before the EPA could act, a federal judge stepped in.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 The fate of the larger budget reconciliation package is unclear, with the Senate shifting its focus to passing the National Defense Reauthorization Act (NDAA). Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. The court also denied motions to transfer the action to the District of Wyoming, where a challenge to the Waste Prevention Rule is pending.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. With respect to climate change, the federal defendants argued that the U.S.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

billion for “resiliency” projects, which includes cyber security improvements, waste management, flood and wildfire mitigation, drought, and coastal resiliency, ecosystem restoration, heat stress and weatherization. trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill includes $47.2

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The court rejected other arguments related to noise impacts, waste storage and disposal, land alterations, wetlands, and procedure.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a final Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule promulgated in October 2017 that continued and expanded a statutory interim prohibition on diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in children’s toys and child care articles at concentrations greater than 0.1% 14560 (Mar.

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