Clean Water Act Conservation Cooling 
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.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2025
Under current regulations, discharge of treated wastewater is only allowed for agricultural and wildlife water uses in the western United States. 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.
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 6, 2023
For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2022
By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania. How Clean Is Your Stream?
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Permit conditions – Several statutes require permit holders to have and implement plans to prepare for extreme events – e.g., Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Oil Pollution Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA John Pascavage has been doing conservation work on his little piece of Centre County, Pennsylvania, since he bought it and took the land out of farming. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The Clean Water Act only requires a permit for discharging pollution into waterbodies, and the Trump EPA argued that discharges into groundwater are never covered by this requirement. Though he has not lambasted the conservative majority as some would wish, he has been a quiet voice of reason.
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