Clean Water Act Climate Change Conservation Regulations 
Legal Planet
AUGUST 4, 2022
What wetlands and waterbodies does the Clean Water Act protect? The Biden Administration is in the process of issuing a new regulation on the subject. A little quick background: The term “navigable waters” traditionally meant water bodies that could be used for transportation. Not a good sign.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2024
Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? With that as background, here’s the list in chronological.
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Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
A federal judge overturns the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act definition. Bureau of Reclamation contributes $19 million for a Colorado River water conservation program. USGS researchers also find that water use for fracking in the Permian basin climbed in the last decade. Colorado River Conservation.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
While much of the concern about climate change is understandably centered on staying beneath a threshold of temperatures that will unleash catastrophic climate impacts, the study is a reminder that there is much more to the preservation of the planet. More than half of the nation’s $5.6
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. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 20, 2023
The Rundown The EPA targets six PFAS in its draft drinking water regulation. Representatives in Congress introduce water-related bills on Superfund, lead pipe removal, cybersecurity, and contaminated wells. A white paper investigates potential solutions to Rio Grande water deliveries. News Briefs PFAS Regulation The U.S.
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. Hear me out. Only there aren’t even any roads yet.
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