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Federal Water Tap, September 27: New Projections Show High Risks for Colorado River Reservoirs

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The Government Accountability Office says that Congress needs to come up with a permanent solution , since the Yucca Mountain storage site has been taken off the table. Regan also said that the EPA will propose a draft regulation in November that would define the waterbodies that are regulated by the Clean Water Act.

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

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It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

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Between the discriminatory practice of redlining, which made African-American neighborhoods like Junction ineligible for government-backed mortgage loans through the 1960s, its fair share of white flight, and its industrial workforce in steady decline since the 1970s, money has been fleeing the city for much of the 20th century. .

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Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional

National Law Center

The term “final agency action” comes from the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal law that governs agency procedure, and is defined as an agency action that is “made reviewable by statute” or “for which there is no other adequate remedy” other than in a court of law. 5 U.S.C. § The plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.

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Action: 2019 Budget

Smith Enviorment

July 9, 2019. The 2019 legislative session got off to a very slow start. In 2018, the legislature allocated $2 million to DEQ’s Division of Water Infrastructure to help local governments extend water lines to properties affected by contamination caused by per? fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including GenX.

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Storm Sewers and Impervious Cover in Maryland: A Further Update

E2 Law Blog

The Maryland Department of the Environment has for many years sought to meet its obligations under the Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load in part by imposing obligations on municipal separate storm sewers (MS4s) beyond the statutory minimum imposition of control to the “maximum extent practicable” or “MEP.”

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This isn’t an early April Fools joke — the US Forest Service is applying for a NPDES permit to keep fighting forest fires!

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Posted on March 28, 2023 by Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that the United States Forest Service is going to work with EPA to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage under the Federal Clean Water Act authorizing it to continue fighting forest fires from the air.