The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. There is precedent for TMDLs addressing air emission sources, specifically in relation to atmospheric deposition of mercury.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

By Lauren Dalban Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities, to preventing pollutants from entering the water supply, to breeding grounds for endangered bird species.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

One such strategy, ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), involves adding alkaline substances to seawater so as to increase its ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate ocean acidification. OAE 101 OAE involves adding alkalinity to the ocean, in order to convert CO2 in the water into dissolved inorganic carbon.

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National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. Environmental Protection Agency.

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National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Newton writes that Spezio explores the relationships between oil pollution and political changes in the 1970s and asks how the Santa Barbara oil spill became a watershed moment in the history of environmental and science policy in the US, especially in regard to the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA).

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National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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National Law Center

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Sovereign.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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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. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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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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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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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Officially, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a CAFO as an animal feeding operation where a specific number of animals are kept indoors for at least 45 days a year and crops are not sustained during growing seasons. California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C.,

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. The Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976 has a provision titled “Reciprocity” that provides that foreign vessels may not fish in U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

ESA & ESAL Webinar “Protecting Waterways for Healthy Communities and Ecosystems” – Monday, May 8 at 2:00 pm Join ESAL and ESA to learn how science and policy intersect to protect waterways, hear from local advocates for ecologically sound practices, and discuss the potential impact of an ongoing Supreme Court Case.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 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. The National Park Service gets a 4.5%

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework includes some funding for environmental initiatives: The Army Corps of Engineers receives $7 billion for flood mitigation projects. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The bill includes the Senate’s drinking water infrastructure reauthorization bill ( S.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The subcommittee funds the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service. Area of scientific expertise sought include ecological sciences and ecological assessment, ecological risk assessment, ecosystem services, forestry and environmental justice. Meanwhile, Rep.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. US Environmental Protection Agency case.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s topline budget is $10.13 The EPA’s Geographic Programs budget, which funds the restoration of nationally significant bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay, is increased to $681.7 Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency on January 19, 2021, Renewable Fuels Association moved to voluntarily dismiss its petitions for review challenging the exemptions in the Tenth Circuit and the D.C. The conservation groups asserted claims under NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Army Corps of Engineers and designed to address climate change’s impacts on the South Side of Chicago, among other environmental functions.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

“As the country works to recover and rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic and fully address the climate crisis, now is the time to develop and pursue a locally led, nationally scaled effort to conserve, connect, and restore the lands, waters, and wildlife upon which we all depend,” the report states. Richard Spinrad to be NOAA administrator.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. John Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement (SEEE) Act ( S. 1816 & H.R. This definition prohibits the U.S.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NSF also receives $3.43 Justice Dept. Justice Dept.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program.

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