PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

The [federal] Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, put in place regulations to limit pollution and water quality standards to begin the process of restoring waterways nationwide. DCNR also works with partners to name the River of the Year and support a network of Pennsylvania Water Trail Managers.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced its evaluation of Pennsylvania’s updated plan to address pollution reduction goals in its portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed found the plan falls short of meeting those goals largely due to the lack of resources provided by the state. How Clean Is Your Stream? On April 18, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Penn State research released in October 2022 found PFAS chemicals typically persist through public wastewater treatment systems at levels that may impact the long-term feasibility of beneficial reuse of treated wastewater. Note: The Department of Environmental Protection does not comment on matters in litigation.]

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms Water sampling finds no reduction in bloom-producing nutrients. September 13, 2022 . The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. Photographs by J. ADRIAN, Mich.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency visited four this spring to assess any potential for water quality problems locally or for the Chesapeake Bay. But that and other farm-related regulations were often unenforced. Budget cuts forced the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to slash inspection and enforcement staff.

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Acoel

MAY 17, 2022

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Ed Tormey. EPA seeking clarification on the agency’s position on bacteria mixing zones and wet weather blending [1] under the Clean Water Act. EPA could justify any rule that regulated the internal workings of a plant’s treatment processes. Recently I read a news release that the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 A court ultimately revoked the company’s air permits in September 2022, in a major victory for environmental justice activists. billion complex in St. billion complex in St. James, Louisiana.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

During the Senate hearing, Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) expressed concerns that the revenues from environmental penalties are unreliable. NDAA: The full Senate voted to pass the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). million for PFAS clean-up. The bill includes $514.3

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Acoel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Chuck Becker. You Are Monsters!”), DMC decided to bring the pending action asserting that it has a constitutional right to untainted groundwater and that the discharges violated EPA regulations. DMC next claims that the regulations of the U.S. 2228, 2244 – 45 (2022). [v]

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Knowing the wide-ranging impacts of pollution on our ocean, I’m reassured by the existence of the Clean Water Act (CWA) – the legal framework for preserving and restoring “waters of the United States”. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was taken up by the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The harrowing trail of toxic nutrients in farm country water. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – February 2, 2022. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children? Carl Ganter.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

September 27, 2022. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7 Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

On July 11, the Environmental Quality Board voted to accept the Department’s report on a rulemaking petition submitted by the Sierra Club and other groups in September of 2021 that the EQB no longer has the authority to adjust well bonding amounts for 10 years under Act 96 passed and signed into law by Gov. Wolf on July 19, 2022.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

September 8, 2022 . TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 11, the Environmental Quality Board will consider DEP’s report on a rulemaking petition to raise the well plugging bonding amounts for conventional oil and gas wells, proposed changes to state water quality criteria and other regulations. Wolf on July 19, 2022. Triennial Review Of Water Quality Standards.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

On November 2, voters in New York approved “Proposal 2” and adopted a new section 19 to Article I of the state constitution that reads: “Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and to a healthful environment.” It will take effect in January 2022.

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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. The regulation also limited the conditions that a state might place on that certification. Louisiana v. 21A539 (U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — July 11, 2022. In a 6-3 decision last week, the Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb climate pollution from power plants. . water issues, many of which cut across state boundaries. Opponents of regulation are trying to push those limits.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. September 15, 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.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. Environmental Protection Agency selected to apply for $6.7 The projects are mostly large water, sewer, and stormwater developments.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

The water samples were taken in 2021 and 2022. The testing and public release of results was required as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The testing and public release of results was required as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. WOTUS: Science Advisory Board Chimes In.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to require Pennsylvania to develop and implement a plan to meet its commitments to reduce pollution under the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint. The Trump Administration did not use its Clean Water Act tools to hold all Bay partners accountable. By

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS. The House bill ( H.R.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

This was the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event in-person since 2019 and the first GSPA Hill visits since Congress passed the Chips and Science Act with bipartisan support in fall 2022. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? 2587 (2022) (Chief Justice Roberts). Train, 420 U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Farming-related contaminants already pollute thousands of drinking water wells from Minnesota to Missouri, and virtually every mile of streams and rivers in Iowa is impaired with little regulation to rein in the pollutants. Environmental Protection Agency identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

UN plans virtual Biodiversity Conference in October 2021 and in-person meeting in April and May 2022. Innovation and Competition Act with representatives from the White House and the Commerce Department. 8, 2022 will be held in-person to conclude negotiations and decide on the new Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Joe Webster (D-Montgomery), would provide for a minimum 100 foot riparian buffer along each side of a surface body of water, with a minimum 300 foot buffer for streams that have been designated as High Quality or Exceptional Value. Current regulations do not take wetlands and vernal ponds into account at all.”

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Legislative Developments. Regulatory Developments. N:United States v.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

In this issue: Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Lawmakers Pass Fiscal Year 2022 Spending Bills. Congress passed an omnibus spending bill completing appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% NSF receives a four percent increase. increase to $3.26

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Financial regulators say they need a better understanding of climate risks to the U.S. A federal district court strikes down Trump-era Clean Water Act rule related to state reviews. Biden officials want to protect the area from environmental damage due to the potential for sulfide mining. financial system.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Republicans take aim at the Biden administration’s definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. Domestic production of salt , a water pollutant, remained steady in 2022. By the Numbers 42 Million Tons : Domestic salt production in 2022, according to U.S. Geological Survey figures. is for deicing roads.

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