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Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities

PA Environment Daily

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) circulated a cosponsor memo announcing she plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for natural gas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. On May 16, Sen. of Bordentown v. F.E.R.C. ,

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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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When Is An Enforcement Action Not An Enforcement Action?

Acoel

Dakota Finance LLC decision from the Fourth Circuit, the Court concluded in a split decision that a South Carolina enforcement action was insufficient to preclude a citizens suit commenced pursuant to Clean Water Act § 505(a)(1), notwithstanding the provisions of Clean Water Act § 309(g)(6)(A)(ii).

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

Circle of Blue

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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EPA Will Not Require Financial Assurances From Electric Power Sector

Clean Energy Law

The July 2019 notice asserts that CERCLA confers significant discretion on the agency. State law requirements. EPA also looked at the financial health of the industry, cleanups in the sector, federal and state regulatory requirements governing releases of hazardous substances in the sector, and voluntary practices. By Claudia M.

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

January 30, 2019. The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations.

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UNC Nutrient Study: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again (Apologies to Yogi Berra)

Smith Enviorment

On December 23, 2019, the UNC Policy Collaboratory released a legislatively mandated report on nutrient pollution in Jordan Lake. The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. January 6, 2020. Background.

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