CEQA Developments

MARCH 4, 2021

In the area of State Water Resources Control Board (“SWRCB” or the “State Board”) water quality certifications (“WQCs”) under the Federal Clean Water Act (“CWA”; 33 U.S.C § 1251 et seq), this bedrock principle appears to have been watered down, and it may be significantly eroding under pressure from a preemptive federal law deadline.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations. The order provides new guidance to cabinet agencies on vehicle use; energy efficiency in state facilities; and priority for greenhouse gas reduction/clean energy in planning and allocation of economic incentives. The limits in G.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Council includes governors of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the tri-state legislative Chesapeake Bay Commission and the administrator of the EPA on behalf of the federal government. Not Meeting Milestones On October 4, the U.S.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

January 6, 2020. The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. In response, the report identifies a water allocation fee on local governments that receive drinking water from Jordan Lake as a possible funding mechanism.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Government cost-share programs help fund BMPs, but they typically require investments from farmers. They are often reluctant to participate in government farm programs. The EPA’s Clean Water Act authority over farms is generally limited to large, concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

Reallocation of state funding appropriated in 2018 to extend water lines in areas with well contamination caused by GenX. 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?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. The plan has been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and U.S. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.)

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Passed nearly a year ago, the American Rescue Plan Act is injecting needed funding into aging water and sewer infrastructure. Contractors for Houston Public Works install a wastewater and drainage project in the Greater Eastwood neighborhood in this file photo from 2020. Photo © Elizabeth Conley / Circle of Blue.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But this is a city where 20 percent of residents report “often” or “always” reducing their spending on basic needs to afford their water bill. Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St. Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives. Executive Branch.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries is heavily influenced by nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution delivered from the watershed and can vary year-to-year due to a number of factors including land use, fertilizer and manure use, wastewater and septic discharges, and river flow.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. Drinking Water. Environmental Standing and Environmental Justice. Maryland Environmental Service.

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Acoel

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2022, the on-going debate will continue over the hotly contested definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), a phrase that determines the scope of federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waterbodies under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

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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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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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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Two of the projects are in Mercer County, which has undertaken one of the most aggressive local government campaigns in the country to battle harmful algal blooms. Ohio is investing $91.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Justice Alito has displayed similar cynicism about water protection. The EPA under both the George W.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The result is nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land. Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. billion bushels.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Our new fellows join Beth Kent, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2020-22. Our fellows serve in limited-term academic appointments at UCLA Law to support our research, teaching, and public service initiatives. – Daniel Carpenter-Gold joins us as a Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2021-23.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

For those uninitiated in the moving target describing what are “navigable waters of the United States,” defining where those waterways begin and end, has since the enactment of the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act been the subject of disputes between the federal government and land owners.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If In 2020, for instance, the 14 CAFOs in Lenawee and Hillsdale counties – 11 dairies and 3 hog operations – spread 221.4 The number of CAFOs in Michigan is increasing.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

Increased investments in regenerative agriculture strategies in Pennsylvania are good for farm productivity and keeping soil and nitrogen on the land instead of running into local waters. Congress just adopted a budget that boosts funding for the U.S. Read more here ] As CBF President William C.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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E2 Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

On April 6, the Supreme Court used the “Shadow Docket” to reinstate a Trump administration regulation governing state water quality certifications under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. 42,210 (July 13, 2020) , codified at 40 C.F.R. Louisiana v. American Rivers, No. 21A539 (U.S. See 85 Fed.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 22, 2020

April 2020. Recognition of the fundamental rights of nature is a core element of such new governance systems. citizens disillusioned by the failure of governments. Advocates, governments, and courts are building laws and policies that recognize nature’s rights and are now. Healthy Waters Act. theory and.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

May 1, 2020). Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. Natural Resources Defense Council v. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. WildEarth Guardians v. Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:18-cv-00073 (D. 17-cv-02824 (N.D.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There was considerable speculation about what impact this new rule would have on the scope of the Clean Water Act. The Supreme Court has recognized that “reliance interests” do come into play when the government reverses policies (See Chief Justice Roberts opinion in the DACA case).

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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. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 2, 2023

The EPA finalizes a new definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. New data shows the number of households receiving federal water bill assistance rose last summer. The EPA misses its self-imposed, end-of-year deadline for issuing draft drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The EPA proposes reinstating the Clean Water Act definition that existed before 2015. Two federal agencies sign an order affirming their duty to protect the interests of Native American tribes in land and water management. And lastly, the CDC investigates cases of liver disease linked to bottled water. “As

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

The Biden administration unveiled its “ action plan ” for global water security that acknowledges water scarcity and pollution abroad can threaten U.S. The plan in some ways is standard government boilerplate: collaboration, partnerships, data, whole-of-government approach. Local Government and Water Infrastructure.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

The executive order requires a broad range of actions that target both public and private assets as well as government programs. Water Bills in Congress. A sampling: The Water Debt Relief Act would authorize $4 billion for reducing residential customers’ past-due water bills. Clean Water Act Compliance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. In response, 27 states sued , and the rule was put on hold.

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