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These programs are primarily implemented through USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (“NRCS”) and exist as an option to help farmers and ranchers address environmental resource concerns on private lands.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2025

A vac truck driver said he had collected 16,800 gallons from the sumps just that day and the water was recycled back as frack water. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. Developed Resources, Inc.; Dietterich; Diversified Production LLC; East Resources Inc.; STL Resources holds 35 permits.

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JULY 17, 2025

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JUNE 4, 2025

in Arkansas and Express Grain Terminals, LLC in Mississippi — underscore the significant risks that grain dealer failures can pose for farmers: In the Turner Grain collapse, a 2020 decision from a Lonoke County jury said that farmers lost $5.9 Two high-profile cases involving grain dealer failures — Turner Grain Merchandising, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Michigan Constitution, ratified in 1963, states that “ the natural resources of the state are hereby declared to be of paramount public concern in the interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the people. The statute outlaws conduct that is “likely to pollute, impair, or destroy” natural resources and the environment.

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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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JANUARY 19, 2022

Watch Merck testify in favor of Senate Bill 619 on September 30, 2020 before the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. Unfortunately, polluters may not know where downstream drinking water intakes are located, and are not in a position to determine if their pollution event is a threat. 2015-011-L ).

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where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311(a), 1362(12)(A); see also 33 U.S.C. 1342 (NPDES provisions). 22250 (Apr.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 26, 2020, the EPA proposed a set of discharge standards for twenty different types of incidental discharges from vessel equipment and systems. Although the deadline for doing so was December 4, 2020, these standards have not yet been finalized or implemented. It also requires the U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Pipeline construction often requires a Clean Water Act Sec. 404 permit (for deposition of fill material in rivers, streams and other waters) from the U.S. the Division of Water Resources may be requested to issue a state water quality certification for the project. 404 of the Clean Water Act. .

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JULY 1, 2025

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters.

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JULY 9, 2019

Additional funds to address emerging contaminants through water quality permitting. The positions include two new engineers to work on issuance and renewal of Clean Water Act wastewater discharge permits. In Section 12.19, the budget bill prevents DEQ from covering farms under the new general permits until 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. 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. Six months later the U.S.

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APRIL 13, 2022

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. billion bushels.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction.

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MAY 24, 2021

A sampling: The Water Debt Relief Act would authorize $4 billion for reducing residential customers’ past-due water bills. To be eligible, a household must have accrued new debt after March 1, 2020. Clean Water Act Compliance. It’s intended to be a pandemic response. Studies and Reports.

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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. Enforcement.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Last year the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to restrict large livestock farms to protect the state’s water, a rebuke to a 2011 state law that limited the DNR’s authority to regulate CAFOs. Water worries. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.

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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No. Rhode Island v.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MAY 8, 2020

On January 23, 2020, the Trump Administration released the final version of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), which defines which waters and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act. The NWPR replaces the Obama Administration’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule.

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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. During law school, Dadashi was a legal fellow at Los Angeles Waterkeeper and a legal intern in the Natural Resources Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office and at the California Coastal Commission. Download as PDF.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances nomination of Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to lead Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. ESA Stands with Ukraine.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this issue: Congressional Leadership Releases Committee Rosters House Science Committee, House Natural Resources and other committees fill out leadership rosters and add freshmen members for the 118th Congress. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) announced the committee leadership.

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