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Wetland Protections Remain Bogged Down in Mystery 

Union of Concerned Scientists

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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The Supreme Court Looks for a Middle Ground to Determine When Clean Water Act Permit is Required for Discharges to Groundwater

The Energy Law

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. This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al.

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Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms

Circle of Blue

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. million in Ohio in 2020. did it once before. .

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

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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Guest Essay: Before The Federal Clean Water Act, There Was The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1899 To Help Clean-Up Pittsburgh’s 3 Rivers

PA Environment Daily

Resource Links: -- Attorney General Thornburgh’s Address to the Oceans ‘88 Conference on October 31, 1988 -- Gov. Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water NewsClips: -- Oct. He died in 2020. Photos: Gov. Dick Thornburgh and James M.

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Whenever this Supreme Court agrees to review a 9th Circuit interpretation of a law, the outcome is nearly certain. This NEPA case is no exception.

Acoel

In 2020 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals similarly ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management should have estimated emissions from foreign oil consumption in reviewing the environmental impacts of an offshore oil drilling and production facility.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. The decision means that NSF opts not to rebuild the telescope dish at the Arecibo Observatory, which was destroyed in late 2020. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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