Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

Led by new public concern about the consequences of industrialization, landmark environmental legislation in the 1970s steadily assured protections for air, water, and wildlands.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

The statutes that form the foundation of the program, like the 1972 Clean Water Act, dont seek to close polluting plants. The 1970 Clean Air Act led to restrictions on lead, particulates, and nitrogen from tailpipes that cleared the air of smog and led to much better vehicles.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2025

Unlike regulatory statutes like the Clean Air Act or Clean Water Act, the benefits of NEPA (if any) are more diffuse and indirect, since NEPA does not impose any substantive environmental standards on federal projects.

Clean Air Act

Acoel

JULY 8, 2025

Because the risks posed by superfund sites pale in comparison to the risks posed by air pollution and broader water pollution issues regulated under the Clean Water Act, I have been and remain deeply skeptical of the Trump administration’s decision to make Superfund EPA’s core mission.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Under section 172 of the Clean Air Act, relaxing a national air quality standard provides limited benefits for industry. The Clean Water Act contains two anti-backsliding provisions. And BTW: Trump was giving his marching orders to the head of the wrong agency: EPA doesn’t set these standards.

Clean Air Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

JULY 10, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 10 Jul The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In 1971 the Clean Air Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1973 the Endangered Species Act was passed and Nixon signed it. But now, with the benefit of hindsight, I recall that in1969 NEPA was passed and Nixon signed it.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

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2013

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Bartolotta contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agencys action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 11, 2025

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2013

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Almost every one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, enacted since 1970, is under attack: Coal-fired power plants are being allowed to increase emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants, a rewrite of a Clean Air Act provision in place since 1990. Similarly, auto tailpipe emissions limits are being relaxed.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

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Law

National Law Center

JUNE 26, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 24, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

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National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

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Law

National Law Center

JUNE 17, 2025

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2025

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

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2013

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. (credit: Amazon). ” That obviously did not, and will not, happen.

Clean Water Act

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

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Law

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Clean Air Act. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution.

Law

Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2024

As an example of a statutory delegation of authority, the Court cites a provision in the Clean Water Act, 33 U. would interfere with the attainment or maintenance of that water quality. which shall assure” various outcomes, such as the “protection of public health” and “public water supplies.”

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

For example, regulations under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, which often rely on broad and ambiguous statutory mandates, are now vulnerable to unfavorable rulings at the hand of activist judges. This could hinder efforts to implement climate policies at the federal level.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. 1973 was at the crest of the environmental surge that swept the United States half a century ago.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

PFAS are also known as “forever chemicals”—they do not break down and they are associated with many health problems.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

Air Pollution

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. The Clean Air Act – The Supreme Court has ruled that it does not provide authority for EPA to address the defining issue of our time. They created a pathway towards cleaning our air, water, and land.

Clean Air Act

Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2023

He also goes on to state that "The 1960s were also Congress’s first forays into issues like air and water pollution, wilderness protection, and the endangered species. " Even allowing for methodological nationalism and the focus on the unrepresentative Supreme Court, this is all rather strange.

Law

Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

The 1960s were also Congress’s first forays into issues like air and water pollution, wilderness protection, and the endangered species. Download as PDF. The post Learning to Name Environmental Problems appeared first on Legal Planet.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

This includes conducting a comprehensive review of stormwater discharges and groundwater contamination and implementing initiatives to ensure compliance with environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and parallel Pennsylvania laws.

Clean Water Act

Environment, Law, and History

MAY 6, 2022

The central takeaway of this book is that though Democrats controlled Congress throughout these years, “all environmental laws passed from 1964 to 1976 commanded huge bipartisan support” (p.

Toxic Substances Control Act