Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Superfund Me: A High-Level Overview of Climate Change Superfund Bills Written by Erin Evans and Dayna Smith Recent state-level Climate Superfund legislation seeks to hold climate polluters liable and shift climate change legal policies from simply adaptive and preventive policies to ones demanding payback by top contributors.

Climate Change

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

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. For example, Black Americans are 40% more likely than non-Black Americans to live in places where climate change-induced extreme temperatures will cause death.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, these efforts are necessary, but not sufficient to meet global climate targets. typically have primary authority over near-shore ocean waters and the underlying submerged land (i.e., Each law targets a specific environmental issue.

Ocean

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

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2013

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

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

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the need for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to complement emissions reductions in meeting global climate targets. Ocean-based CDR strategies, which aim to increase the oceans natural carbon sink capacity, are gaining attention.

Ocean

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

National Law Center

AUGUST 12, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Marti Haykin -- Erie Times: US Attorney Moves To End Prosecution Of Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Chief, Further Curtailing Case Involving Felony Charges Brought By A Grand Jury For Illegal Air Pollution -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp., 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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2013

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

There is even talk of sending massive amounts of water to the struggling Sea of Galilee, which is actually a lake near the Syrian border that serves as Israels prime freshwater source. The water ministry intends to present the plans for government approval in the near future. The pumping project had been promoted for years by U.S.

2018

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Yesterday I had some time to reflect on where we are regarding Democracy, the Rule of Law, climate change, and the environment, and where we might be going. In 1971 the Clean Air Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed and Nixon signed it. Until yesterday.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Priceless natural gifts If Carson were alive in this epoch of climate change, she would have likely added that the breath of marsh mist should stir the soul to remember how priceless a wetland is. Congress overwhelmingly voted for the Clean Water Act in 1972, and George H.W. Photos by Derrick Z. trillion and $2.9

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

MARCH 10, 2025

Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act discharge permits. And lastly, Democratic senators from western states ask the administration to preserve water funding and staff. Warming oceans, a consequence of climate change, contribute to rapid intensification. 96 Percent : Share of total U.S.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

If project proponents go back to the drawing board a few times, or experience funding delays, or run afoul of the Clean Water Act or Endangered Species Act, that all takes place during the NEPA process.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

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Conservation

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology.

Regulations

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. The climate change hazards alone are self-evident.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 29, 2025

The state has long been the nation’s pioneer in establishing protections for public health and against climate change — from the first vehicle exhaust regulations , to the prototype for the federal Clean Water Act , to ambitious carbon neutrality goals.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Yesterday, EPA also unveiled plans to rewrite the definition of wetlands and other waters protected by the Clean Water Act. The regulatory rollbacks are proposals that must still undergo a rigorous process before being finalized. CBF has over 275,000 members in Bay Watershed.

Climate Change

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

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2013

National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 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. But 50 years after its creation, the Clean Water Act has proven substantially less effective in other areas. (credit: Amazon). Environmental Protection Agency.). Download as PDF.

Clean Water Act

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

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2013

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

My own priorities are public health, climate change, and preservation of biodiversity/ecosystems. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. I included all laws passed in the U.S.,

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Five implications for climate accountability The elimination of Chevron deference significantly impacts the ability of federal agencies to enforce regulations — particularly those related to environmental protection and climate change, as many of these regulations were crafted to be flexible in interpretation by design.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. Such a test leaves protection to the mercy of the states.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2024

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals will host an April 24 webinar on Protecting PA’s Aquatic Ecosystems from Thermal Discharges In An Era of Climate Change starting at Noon. Presenter The webinar presenter will be Chris Gurshin, Vice President and Principal Scientist at ASA Analysis & Communication, Inc.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The expansion of industrial-scale farming in the basin, plus rainstorms made worse by climate change, have caused the blooms to surge in recent years. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs. Climate change events, and its related impact on nutrient runoff, are not fair in their impacts.

2014

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water management generally is a conservative and risk averse decision-making environment. And yet, because of climate change, population growth, changing societal expectations, the wastewater sector is going to have to do more with less. NPDES permitting under the Clean Water Act is not intended to support innovation.

Clean Water Act

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Supreme Court will take up a landmark dispute Monday that could shape the scope of the Clean Water Act for decades to come, affecting the fate of wetlands that have an outsize effect on emissions and climate change. Read the full story at E&E News.

Clean Water Act