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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

Paris, like many coastal cities in the US such as San Francisco, has a combined sewer system where after heavy rain events, pipes get overwhelmed and raw sewage can flow into nearby waters. EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.

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Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken

Law and Environment

Indeed, EPA has stated publicly that, at least through 2030, it will perform effects determinations only when ordered to do by a court. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. Didn’t happen. ESA – Basically the same.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.28.24

PA Environment Daily

House Republican Policy Committee hearing on PJM’s Electric Capacity Auction, What Needs To Be Done To Prevent Blackouts By 2030. Click Here to watch online. Read more here on agenda. October 1-- NEW. Room 418 Capitol Building. Click Here to watch online. Read hearing announcement. October 1-- NEW. Ohio- $3.20

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Fresh, May 16, 2023: New Wisconsin Law Aims to Protect Watersheds From Farm Runoff

Circle of Blue

These structures, approximately 30-foot-tall trees, will be placed along shorelines to provide habitat and areas of cooler, shaded water for fish, birds, and other wildlife. The undertaking is estimated to be completed between 2027 and 2030.

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What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?

PA Environment Daily

Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners -- AG Shapiro, 22 Other AGs Oppose EPA’s Proposed Rule To Limit States’ Clean Water Act Oversight Of Pipelines, Other Projects [Posted: November 9, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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USDA Awards Regional Conservation Partnership Program Grants To 2 Projects In PA Totaling $17.8 Million

PA Environment Daily

Together with our partners, we look forward to working with NRCS to support central Pennsylvania farmers to implement conservation practices toward restoring 30 agriculturally-impaired streams by the year 2030.” Nutrient reductions will be modeled to facilitate reporting of project outcomes. -- PA Dept.

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Bay Journal: 'Precision' Stream Conservation In 6 PA Counties Gets Federal Funding

PA Environment Daily

The Chesapeake Conservancy and 13 partners have more than 30 farms lined up to put practices in place that will help address water quality issues and wildlife habitat concerns in Huntingdon, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Union and Snyder counties in the central part of the state.