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DEP Chesapeake Bay Healthy Waters Newsletter Highlights Nearly 16,700 BMPs In 2024; Grant Opportunities; County Clean Water Projects

PA Environment Daily

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.

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Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference At Lehigh University On March 14

PA Environment Daily

The conference serves as a forum that brings together community watershed organizations, municipal officials, educators, students, scientists, technical experts, natural resource agency staff, industry representatives, and the public to discuss effective ways to improve and protect land and water resources throughout the greater Lehigh Valley.

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Regulating the Regulators: Supreme Court Allows Judicial Review of Clean Water Act Determinations

The Energy Law

The Corps’ definition of whether property constitutes “waters of the United States” is significant because the Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into “the waters of the United States.” The Corps has defined the waters of the United States very broadly, along the lines of the Commerce Clause.

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Fighting Big Coal––Washington Judge Allows Novel Clean Water Act Citizens’ Suit to Proceed

Vermont Law

If proven, this would constitute violations of the federal Clean Water Act. _. Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. Fighting Big Coal––Washington Judge Allows Novel Clean Water Act Citizens’ Suit to Proceed. By Kelly Nokes.

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The Supreme Court Looks for a Middle Ground to Determine When Clean Water Act Permit is Required for Discharges to Groundwater

The Energy Law

where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311(a), 1362(12)(A); see also 33 U.S.C. 1342 (NPDES provisions).

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Reflections on a Half Century of Environmental Law Practice

Acoel

Ive also been privileged to work with and learn from experts from many fields, including biologists, chemists, physicists, geologists, hydrologists, civil, chemical, petroleum, and environmental engineers, physicians, toxicologists, air and water quality experts, biologists, and land use planners. In 1984, we returned to Austin.

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From Trees To Teaching, Master Watershed Steward Cindy Pizziketti Makes A Difference In York County; Sign Up Now For Master Steward Spring Training

PA Environment Daily

This led to the idea of removing 50,000 pounds of trash for the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act in 2022. She is a driving force in our group and can always be found lending a hand at projects or teaching at our education events.” Pizziketti participates in many stream clean-ups as well.