PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The applicant is seeking a Federal authorization from the United States Army Corps of Engineers under section 404 of the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) to perform this work.

Clean Water Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. Any federally permitted actions that result in discharges into waters must obtain a water quality certification (or waiver) from the ADEC under section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2025

Think of what means: no safe water for cooking, bathing, or hand-washing, no reliable access to a toilet. If that makes you gag, consider that water quality in America has been systematically protected only in about the last 50 years, with the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Recently, a coalition of environmental groups brought suit against the EPA for their lack of Clean Water Act (CWA) oversight surrounding CAFOs. Vermont Law School cited numerous concerns with how ANR issued and enforced discharge permits to prevent water pollution.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

Meet Nature Renaissance Man George Gress; Celebrate Migratory Bird Day May 10 With TNC -- WHYY: Philly DA Launches Cleaner, Greener Enforcement Unit To Target Illegal Dumping, Other Quality-of-Life Crimes -- York Daily Record: Federal Judge Finds Modern Landfill Violated Clean Water Act 419 Times In York County -- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: (..)

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

The report outlines general water quality, PFAS contamination, compliance to the Clean Water Act and more. Nearly a third of our region’s rivers and streams are considered impaired by the Department of Environmental Protection. parts per trillion.

2024

Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to issue pollutant discharge permits. The case involved a wastewater treatment facility that discharged treated water into San Francisco Bay under a CWA permit issued by EPA.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

PennVEST funding for water improvement projects originates from a combination of state funds approved by voters, Growing Greener funds, Marcellus Legacy funds, the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, federal grant awards to PennVEST from the U.S. Click Here for a list of projects funded and the PennVEST announcement.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Americans’ continued reliance on CAFOs perpetuates injustice and cruelty, subject to little regulatory oversight. came from animals confined in CAFOs.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The “small handle” doctrine applies when the federal project is considering a permit for a small portion of a much larger non-federal action for instance, a Clean Water Act permit required to authorize the crossing of a mile or two of waterways out of a pipeline project that is hundreds of miles long.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2025

This is a defining moment for the Chesapeake Bay. “Most importantly, the revised Bay Agreement must reaffirm commitments to pollution reductions the federal government and states are legally required to meet under the Clean Water Act. We can’t afford further delay.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Looking Forward: The Case for Regulating PFAS Under the Clean Water Act PFAS contamination extends beyond just drinking water. These chemicals are routinely found in surface waters, groundwater, and soil. Federal laws like the Clean Water Act (CWA) should include PFAS-specific regulations.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

Sign Off DER [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Before The Federal Clean Water Act, There Was The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1899 To Help Clean-Up Pittsburghs 3 Rivers - By James M. Environmental & Energy Law Section [PaEN] -- Ridge-Schweiker: DEP Secretary James M. Seif: The Assignment Was Clear - Take The Kick Me!

Toxic Substances Control Act

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

These include the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, the Clean Water Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. As the report released today shows, a number of U.S. federal laws impose permit and other requirements applicable to marine CDR projects.

Carbon Dioxide

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

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2013

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

typically have primary authority over near-shore ocean waters and the underlying submerged land (i.e., Two key federal laws are especially relevant to OAE projects: (1) the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and (2) the Clean Water Act (CWA). Each law targets a specific environmental issue.

Ocean

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.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin inviting comments on new and revised DEP Water Quality Assessment Methodology for listing and delisting impaired waters under the federal Clean Water Act 2026 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

Meet Nature Renaissance Man George Gress; Celebrate Migratory Bird Day May 10 With TNC -- WHYY: Philly DA Launches Cleaner, Greener Enforcement Unit To Target Illegal Dumping, Other Quality-of-Life Crimes -- York Daily Record: Federal Judge Finds Modern Landfill Violated Clean Water Act 419 Times In York County -- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: (..)

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

Resource Links: -- EPA Issues Consent Order To Max Environmental Technologies For Clean Water Act Violations At Yukon, Westmoreland County Facility [PaEN] -- Mountain Watershed Assn.

Waste

Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The citys only wetlands mitigation bank on Staten Island sells credits to waterfront developers so they can comply with a federal no net loss policy for these coastal ecosystems.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

Pennsylvania conservationists are focused on restoring the health of small, local streams that are on the federal Clean Water Acts impaired waters list. They recognized and celebrated Pennsylvanias efforts to delist streams at a rapid pace.

2024

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In December, EPA is slated to issue a “biennial review” under the Clean Water Act that specifies which chemicals in biosolids should be labeled toxic pollutants and prioritized for regulation. In the meantime, the waning Biden Administration has one last opportunity to move PFAS policy forward.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

[Deep Cuts Threaten 50 Years Of Progress] We are writing to urge Congress to ensure that EPA has sufficient staff and funding to effectively implement the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other bedrock environmental laws for the good of all Americans.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

. -- DEP published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin inviting comments on new and revised DEP Water Quality Assessment Methodology for listing and delisting impaired waters under the federal Clean Water Act 2026 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report.

Clean Water Act

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

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Recycling

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

State Management in Question Frank fears that the EPA’s new attitude toward coal ash may incentivize states like Indiana to deregulate as much as possible in hopes of attracting energy investment in a manner reminiscent of the environmental “race to the bottom” of the postwar period that led to the Clean Water Act in 1972.

2015

Smith Enviorment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The “narrative standard” establishes the equations to be used in calculating the concentration of a toxic water pollutant that would protect human health; an EMC rule setting the water quality standard for an individual toxic pollutant reflects the number that results from those same equations.

2023

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2025

What will happen to the Clean Water Act? Young, talented early-career scientists and students who are normally filled with hope and optimism expressed palpable fear and anxiety to their friends at SFS. One of our members said, “I worry that hard-earned gains on the environmental front will be lost. Will there be any guardrails?”

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

PennVEST funding for water improvement projects originates from a combination of state funds approved by voters, Growing Greener funds, Marcellus Legacy funds from Act 13 drilling impact fees, the federal Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, federal grant awards to PennVEST from the U.S.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2025

A nuclear plant would require permitting from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and would also require a Clean Water Act permit for taking cooling water from a stream or lake, and separate permitting for discharging used cooling water due to impurities in the used water.

Air Pollution

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

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This framework allows state environmental laws passed pursuant to a federal environmental law, like the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) or Clean Air Act (“CAA”), to have the force and effect of federal law if the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) approves the state implementation plans.

Law

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Our new report discusses various federal laws that may apply to OAE, including the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA). The result is a complex and sometimes unclear regulatory landscape.

Ocean

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The specific issue before the Court was whether a consent decree under the Clean Water Act (CWA) could trigger the three-year statute of limitations under CERCLA. United States allowed Guam to proceed with a cost-recovery claim against the U.S. Navy stemming from a toxic waste and ammunition disposal site.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Truth in Labeling Law(suits) Research Fellows Rusty Rumley Solar Smarts Samantha Capaldo Samantha Mikolajczyk Bankruptcy Biofuels Biosecurity Biotechnology Carbon Checkoff Programs Commodity Programs Conservation Programs Cooperatives Cottage Foods Country of Origin Labeling Crop Insurance Disaster Assistance Programs Environmental Law Equine Activity (..)

2013

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

On the Radar El Paso, Texas, which experienced its hottest two years on record in 2023 and 2024 and receives single-digit inches of rain per year, broke ground this week on a transformative new facility: one that will turn wastewater into drinking water for direct reuse, Inside Climate News reports.

Clean Water Act