E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

A few months later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and ordered the couple to restore the site or face penalties of up to $40,000 a day. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. at (slip op.

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

Read More » Tags: Clean Water Act , Decisions of Note , EPA , Major Questions Doctrine , Navigability , Ninth Circuit , Rapanos , Supreme Court , United States Supreme Court , Wetlands See 88 Fed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

The case involved an Idaho couple who wanted to develop over a wetland on their property near a lake; all nine justices on the high court concurred that the EPA went too far in regulating the particular wetland on the couple’s property. The high court has set the stage for the United States to lose tens of millions of acres more.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

EPA limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to defend a large portion of the nation’s wetlands and waterways from pollution. EPA case, having to do with regulating air pollution. Taken together, what is the future of environmental regulations? Photo by Joe Ravo (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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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.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The EPA finalizes guidance for balancing sewage system improvements with financial burdens to residential water bills. Republicans take aim at the Biden administration’s definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. Domestic production of salt , a water pollutant, remained steady in 2022.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following the science and the Clean Water Act to develop technology-based pollution limits and studies on wastewater discharges from industrial sources.

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APRIL 11, 2022

The nation’s high court issues an emergency order that revives, at least temporarily, a ruling that constrains the ability of states and tribes to protect waterways from pollution. The EPA outlines three strategies for addressing nutrient pollution in the nation’s waters. Supreme Court Reinstates Trump-Era Clean Water Act Rule.

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APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. . Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday announced a new rule that could curtail protections from more than 60 percent of protected lands, in response to a May Supreme Court ruling that curtailed which waters are subject to federal Clean Water Act protections.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

Supreme Court has issued a decision significantly limiting federal Clean Water Act regulation of wetlands just as the N.C. General Assembly has been moving legislation to limit state water quality protection for wetlands. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

In a 6-3 decision last week, the Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb climate pollution from power plants. . The decision leaves intact the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and even allows it to regulate power plants on a case-by-case basis.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Financial regulators say they need a better understanding of climate risks to the U.S. A federal district court strikes down Trump-era Clean Water Act rule related to state reviews. Biden officials want to protect the area from environmental damage due to the potential for sulfide mining. financial system.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The Bureau of Reclamation prepares $250 million to pay Colorado River water users not to use water. The House passes a resolution to reject the Biden administration’s Clean Water Act definition. And lastly, the EPA’s draft rules for PFAS in drinking water could come at any moment. “So,

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , No. The president promptly expressed both disappointment and concern that the government could no longer assure protection of wetlands, and therefore surface water quality. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court restricted federal jurisdiction over filling and altering wetlands.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Inspectors general for the Defense Department and EPA will investigate water contamination from an Oahu naval base. The Justice Department announced a settlement with a southeastern Pennsylvania water authority over sewage spills that violated the Clean Water Act. Oahu Water Contamination. News Briefs.

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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. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. The EPA under both the George W.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Farming-related contaminants already pollute thousands of drinking water wells from Minnesota to Missouri, and virtually every mile of streams and rivers in Iowa is impaired with little regulation to rein in the pollutants. Environmental Protection Agency identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. Environmental Protection Agency selected to apply for $6.7 The projects are mostly large water, sewer, and stormwater developments.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water. Regulation Begins.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The post Biden Administration Begins Review of Environmental Regulations appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. When the Biden Administration took office in January, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring all federal agencies to review.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

She served as Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the US Environmental Protection Agency and has spent much if not most of her career caring for our shared watershed. -- Reba Carruth is on IPC's Board and serves as our Program and Advocacy Committee!

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But if Justice declined to act, the two intrepid canoers were positioned to make a political statement as well. Some history: Congress passed annual Rivers and Harbors Acts in the late 19th century, to make appropriations to the Corps of Engineers, to regulate construction in navigable waters, and to protect navigable channels.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

” — Letter from Adam Ortiz, EPA Region 3 administrator, to the acting head of Pennsylvania’s environment agency. Environmental Protection Agency determined that Pennsylvania is not doing enough to prevent ecologically damaging sediment and nutrients from entering the bay. CBP is the Chesapeake Bay Program, and the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

Last week the Environmental Protect Agency and Department of the Army announced the agencies’ intent to initiate new rulemaking that restores the Obama era waters of the United States rule that was in place pre-2015, and before the current Trump era rule.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported plastic pellets in 13 out of 14 U.S. Nurdle pollution is NOT regulated. In the United States, we have laws that regulate pollution and emissions from manufacturing through the Clean Water Act. And, in the early 1990s, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, a coalition of environmental groups announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a petition to begin the process of promulgating new water quality standards under Section 303(c)(4)(B) of the federal Clean Water Act for the Delaware River estuary.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The litigation uncovered internal company records showing that DuPont knew of PFOA’s significant health risks but withheld the information from regulators and the public. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Toxic Substances Control Act. National Defense Authorization Act.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Read the full story in Environment + Energy Leader. See also coverage at Agri-Pulse. On December 30, 2022, the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

The testing and public release of results was required as part of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of reinstituting a definition of protected waters that existed before a series of rulemakings that began in the Obama administration.

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