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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. Department of Agriculture Publications and National Center for Water Quality, Heidelberg University.
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Supreme Court Granted Certiorari to a Clean Water Act Case: Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui
Vermont Law
APRIL 19, 2019
Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. The study showed that there was a hydraulic connection between the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility (LWRF) and the water off the coast of Kaanapali. The United States District Court for the District of Hawai‘i ruled in favor of the environmental organizations. GLENN ET AL.,
Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities
PA Environment Daily
MAY 21, 2024
She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” 2018)) Sen. of Bordentown v. of Bordentown v.
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PennVEST Makes $257 Million Investment In 18 Water Infrastructure Projects In 13 Counties
PA Environment Daily
JULY 18, 2024
Established in 1988, PennVEST was anticipated to fund $2 billion in clean water infrastructure projects over a 20-year period. billion dollars in clean water infrastructure in Pennsylvanian communities. In fiscal year 2018-2019, the PennVEST Board awarded $376.3 Click Here for a list of projects funded.
‘Smart’ Stormwater Infrastructure Monitors, Produces Big Benefits for Nature
Washington Nature
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
To address this challenge—and this incredible opportunity—TNC and Opti , a technology company, began thinking of ways to use new, low-cost “smart” technologies to improve water quality by focusing on stormwater infrastructure. This thinking led to the creation of joint venture between TNC and Opti in 2018.
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The Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Environment, Law, and History
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2018).
DEP Inviting Stakeholders To Participate In PAG-13 NPDES General Permit For Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) Workgroup
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The Department of Environmental Protection has issued an invitation to stakeholders to participate in a workgroup considering changes to the NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) - PAG-13. The deadline for expressions of interest is October 11.
Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own.
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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms
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. There are many others. In 2009, the U.S.
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An Opportunity to Reduce Water Pollution from Slaughterhouses
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution.
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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded
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. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.
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Why Congress Should Pass the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. McEachin, who passed away last November, was a lifelong advocate for social and environmental justice in my home state of Virginia. Raúl Grijalva and Barbara Lee, and Sens.
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Federal Water Tap, November 28: EPA Determines Pennsylvania Will Not Met Chesapeake Bay Pollution-Reduction Goal
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
” — Letter from Adam Ortiz, EPA Region 3 administrator, to the acting head of Pennsylvania’s environment agency. Environmental Protection Agency determined that Pennsylvania is not doing enough to prevent ecologically damaging sediment and nutrients from entering the bay. CBP is the Chesapeake Bay Program, and the U.S.
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Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2021
On October 26, the federal Chesapeake Bay Program announced an estimated 33 percent of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries met water quality standards attainment during the 2017—2019 assessment period. Experts mainly attribute this decline to unusually wet weather in 2018 and 2019. Click Here for the complete announcement.
Watershed Success Spotlight: Allegheny Land Trust + Chalfant Run-Thompson Run Watershed Assn., Allegheny County
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 3, 2024
By Tali MacArthur, PA Environmental Council Watershed Program Manager This article is part of the Pennsylvania Organization for Watershed and Rivers (POWR) Spotlight on Success Series. However, after a series of environmental protections starting with the Clean Water Act of 1972 and, of course, time, these streams have bounced back.
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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector
Clean Energy Law
JULY 16, 2019
EPA’s first rulemaking under Section 108(b), for the Hardrock Mining sector, was not completed until 2018, so minimal precedent exists under Section 108(b). Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision. By Claudia M. VanBelleghem.
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Acoel
MAY 17, 2022
EPA seeking clarification on the agency’s position on bacteria mixing zones and wet weather blending [1] under the Clean Water Act. EPA’s “rule” – imposing secondary treatment requirements on flows within a facility – as exceeding the agency’s legal authority under the Clean Water Act.
Hurricane Florence: Deja Vu All Over Again
Smith Enviorment
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
September 23, 2018. A serious storm accompanied by flooding has many environmental impacts and most are all too familiar to North Carolina from past storms. Once the immediate rescue phase has ended, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has a larger role in hurricane response than the public may realize.
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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,921 pediatric cancer cases in the state between 1999 and 2018, about 100 per year. An investigation by Circle of Blue uncovered compelling evidence for why — agrochemical contamination in Nebraska’s surface, ground, and drinking water. There are others across Nebraska. If the U.S.
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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7 As part of the Inflation Reduction Act enacted in August, Congress approved $18.05 Michigan’s Powerful Environmental Law.
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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St. million to resolve violations under the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
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Conservation: History and Future
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Deeper into the 1960s, Richard Nixon signed the executive order creating the Environmental Protection Agency. It is not technically a subcategory of the science of conservation.
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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.21.21
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 21, 2021
PaEN] -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners To Begin Accepting Applications For Clean Water Implementation Grants On Jan. House returns to session Jan. 4, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session Jan.
Biogas’ Toxic Relationship with CAFOs: How Reliance on this Fuel Source Engenders Harmful Animal Farming Practices
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Officially, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a CAFO as an animal feeding operation where a specific number of animals are kept indoors for at least 45 days a year and crops are not sustained during growing seasons. But this win was unfortunately short-lived, as the 2018 Farm Bill overturned the courts ruling.
Federal Water Tap, December 27: Multiple Watchdog Agencies Investigate Water Contamination on Oahu Naval Base
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Inspectors general for the Defense Department and EPA will investigate water contamination from an Oahu naval base. The Justice Department announced a settlement with a southeastern Pennsylvania water authority over sewage spills that violated the Clean Water Act. Oahu Water Contamination. News Briefs.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates.
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Groundwater Pollution: A Circuit Split Inviting Supreme Court Review
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Supreme Court to resolve an important question about how the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to groundwater. Under the act’s National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (. meaning that sometime next year the court may well issue a major decision on the scope of the Clean Water Act.
Bridge to Troubled Waters: US Supreme Court Guts Wetlands Protections
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”
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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math
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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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al.
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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Four environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging the U.S. 452044/2018 (N.Y. Chao , No. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,
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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 1, 2018; ruling Feb. BP p.l.c. ,
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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023
ESA
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The subcommittee funds the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service. Torres Small represented a rural New Mexico district in Congress from 2018 to 2020 and is the USDA’s current undersecretary for rural development. Politico report that Xochitl Torres Small is a top contender for the role.
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Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C. In a split decision, the D.C.
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Federal Water Tap, December 13: Jet Fuel Leak Contaminates Water on Oahu Naval Base
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2021
15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. Environmental Protection Agency selected to apply for $6.7 The projects are mostly large water, sewer, and stormwater developments.
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ESA Policy News: January 9, 2023
ESA
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency’s topline budget is $10.13 The EPA announced a new Clean Water Rule in Dec. In this case, Chantell and Michael Sackett sought a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to develop wetlands on their Idaho property that was denied. This includes $307.2
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Policy News: September 27, 2021
ESA
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Nominations: President Biden nominated Christopher Frey to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant adminstrator for research and development. He was a prominent critic of the EPA during the Trump adminstation. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.
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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
JULY 2, 2021
Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. On June 14, 2021, the U.S. Washington State Dairy Federation v.
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Eight Important Updates About Recent PFAS Regulatory Developments
Arnold Porter
JUNE 2, 2021
In the months since our 2020 update on federal actions affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued to take action on its PFAS Action Plan. In addition, EPA requested nominations for the next CCL in 2018 but has not published the final.
May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
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. Army Corps of Engineers and designed to address climate change’s impacts on the South Side of Chicago, among other environmental functions.
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ESA
MAY 6, 2021
Nelson is a former astronaut who served three terms in the Senate before losing re-election in 2018. The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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