Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . Photographs by J.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Inspectors general for the Defense Department and EPA will investigate water contamination from an Oahu naval base. The Justice Department announced a settlement with a southeastern Pennsylvania water authority over sewage spills that violated the Clean Water Act. Oahu Water Contamination. News Briefs.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA When the federal Clean Water Act was established 50 years ago to regulate pollution to the country's rivers and streams and set quality standards for surface waters, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania already had a Clean Streams Law and an Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to its Constitution on the books.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

12 EQB Agenda [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Here are 79 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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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

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. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water. Regulation Begins.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS. The House bill ( H.R.

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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. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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JUNE 2, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure. Legislative Developments. Regulatory Developments. Home Depot) to pay a $20.75

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2023

The strategy notes the administration’s willingness to use “existing authorities” to regulate critical sectors like water and energy. Water sector groups, though supportive of more diligent cyber-hygiene, did not want the mandate as part of the sanitary surveys. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Congress passes a deal to keep the government funded through Dec. How Government Ends – Boston Review.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. C076888 (Cal.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s Even 2 degrees becomes unlikely without a peak by 2025. Failure to act means tough choices in the future. “The

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

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. EPA : The agency’s Science Advisory Board agreed to review the science underlying the agency’s decision to revert the definition of the Waters of the U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFOA and PFOS Drinking Water Regulations Back On and Only the Beginning. In the final days of the Trump Administration, EPA issued final determinations to regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a process the Agency started in 2018.

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. EPA case by early summer 2023. Forests: Reps.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

Congress President Joe Biden vetoes measure to nullify the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule. Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. EPA case by early summer 2023. Forests: Reps.

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

Courts Supreme Court decision about California’s pork regulations could impact state climate regulations. States A report from Chesapeake Bay Program science advisors questions long-standing approach to Chesapeake Bay clean up. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act ( H.R. territories. . –

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. The Biden administration said that rule aims to create a ‘durable’ definition of the Waters of the U.S. Four Democratic Senators, Sens.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate: A federal judge in Missouri dismissed a case filed by 13 Republican Attorneys General seeking to block the Biden administration’s efforts to use the social cost of carbon while crafting regulations. How Government Decisions Left Tennessee Exposed to Deadly Flooding – The New York Times. International.

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