Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec.

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. We need government agencies to get involved.”

Regulations

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

Further, the FDA may conduct inspections on its own, it also has a program for contracting with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Currently, the FDA has 48 contracts with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Specifically, 43 states and Puerto Rico have been awarded contracts. food supply.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

It prohibits standards or requirements that are “in addition to” or “different from” those imposed by the federal government. There are no federal requirements governing the living space required for laying hens. This section has two express preemptions, one focusing on federal standards, and the other on labeling.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Nevertheless, many states are influenced by the federal government. The new change allows the Oklahoma government to continue keeping records of cottage foods sold in case of food safety issues while also protecting cottage food operations’ personal information from the general public. Particularly, the U.S.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

While there are approximately twenty-eight states that specifically prohibit or limit foreign ownership of agricultural land within the boundaries of their state, the federal government only monitors certain foreign acquisitions and landholdings in agricultural land through the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) of 1978.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

SB 17 prohibits governments and individuals who are citizens of or domiciled in a “designated country” from purchasing or acquiring any interest – including leasehold interests of less than one year – in real property located in Texas. SB 17 is set to go into effect on September 1, 2025.

Law

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Michigan Constitution, ratified in 1963, states that “ the natural resources of the state are hereby declared to be of paramount public concern in the interest of the health, safety and general welfare of the people. The statute outlaws conduct that is “likely to pollute, impair, or destroy” natural resources and the environment.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. The case is one of dozens titled Natural Resource Defense Council v. We cannot accept that conclusion.”

Law

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between the discriminatory practice of redlining, which made African-American neighborhoods like Junction ineligible for government-backed mortgage loans through the 1960s, its fair share of white flight, and its industrial workforce in steady decline since the 1970s, money has been fleeing the city for much of the 20th century. .

2014

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Supreme Court stripped federal oversight from millions of acres of wetlands long protected under the Clean Water Act. Now, erecting safeguards to ensure those waters are not polluted, drained or filled in by developers falls to the states. Read the full story at Stateline. Earlier this year, the U.S.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Tad Macfarlan is an experienced environmental and land use lawyer and a partner in the firm's global Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice group. Tad's practice focuses on the environmental aspects of project development, transactional, litigation, and government enforcement matters (both civil and criminal).

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

million from the state Department of Natural Resources. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.”

2023

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers sent a revised version of the Waters of the U.S. Major rules like the definition of what waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act are first sent to the Office of Management and Budget before they are released publicly. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. Rules to protect workers, including truck drivers, also have significant gaps.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Ohio- $3.20 Ohio- $3.20

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA When the federal Clean Water Act was established 50 years ago to regulate pollution to the country's rivers and streams and set quality standards for surface waters, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania already had a Clean Streams Law and an Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to its Constitution on the books.

Climate Change

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

Government

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2023

A proposed EPA rule , which accepted public comment until March 6, “would require states to account for treaty rights, such as fishing and wild rice gathering, when adopting water quality standards under the Clean Water Act,” according to Wisconsin Watch.

2023

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters.

2023

Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

The Great Lakes are a vast natural resource, therefore it is imperative that fracking’s impacts to the watersheds feeding the Great Lakes, such as the Grand Traverse Bay watershed, be considered. Zoning Enabling Act of 2006 and the Township Ordinance Act of 1945. Local ordinances, such as the.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

For the past four years, Ontarians have witnessed an unremitting attack on the many of the laws which protect the province’s natural heritage. . The Ford government weakened the Endangered Species Act , and politicized appointments to the expert scientific committees advising on species-at-risk.

Endangered Species Act

The Energy Law

APRIL 6, 2017

To illustrate these conflicts in energy transportation, Professor Rossi used two transportation examples that differ in geography, product transported, governing body historically responsible for regulation, and often in public perception. However, such a line still requires state Water Quality Certification under the Clean Water Act § 401.

Natural Gas

Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

Founded in 1994 and based in Laguna Beach, California, EI’s team of biologists, wetland scientists, archeologists and GIS specialists provide comprehensive natural resource consulting and regulatory compliance services and comprehensive environmental management programs for large-scale projects. About Montrose.

Endangered Species Act

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The contractors were also charged with certain misdemeanor Clean Water Act violations. The district court agreed and dismissed those charges, after which the government appealed. Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit ruled against the government finding that contractors cannot criminally violate these OCSLA regulations.

2010

Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

Reallocation of state funding appropriated in 2018 to extend water lines in areas with well contamination caused by GenX. In 2018, the legislature allocated $2 million to DEQ’s Division of Water Infrastructure to help local governments extend water lines to properties affected by contamination caused by per?

2019

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. 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. Six months later the U.S.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Agricultural nutrient pollution is the primary reason that the Clean Water Act has not come close to meeting its “fishable and swimmable” goal for US surface waters. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.” Whether that is the case will be tested this year.

Law

Circle of Blue

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. government water policy.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

approximately from Philadelphia, PA to Wilmington, DE) – last updated in 1967 – do not meet the goals of the Clean Water Act. Until now, these requests have failed to spark the necessary protective actions required under the Clean Water Act to preserve the health of the Estuary.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

Senate returns to session April 13, May 23, 24, 25 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session April 13, 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- WeConservePA Urges General Assembly, Gov. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. -- TODAY 9:30 a.m. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government invests hundreds of millions of dollars each year to restore and protect the great waters of our country such as the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Gulf Coast, among others. The Ohio River has made tremendous progress through the processes of both The Safe Drinking Water Act and The Clean Water Act.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

MARCH 10, 2014

to Gettysburg and Appomattox, the Chesapeake Bay watershed not only witnessed the birth of a new nation, but also contributed many valuable natural resources that enabled the United States to grow rapidly. And, well before the first English settled in, Native Americans survived on the Bay’s natural resources.

Conservation

Acoel

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In an attempt to side-step controversy associated with permitting reform, however, the action plan simply catalogues guidance and training activities that are or could be taken by the federal government, states and the private sector, including technical guidance, project tracking and workforce development.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. The plan has been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and U.S. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.)

Conservation

ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. Across administrations, the President’s Budget Request is typically viewed as a “wishlist” and allows the administration to demonstrate its priorities and vision for the federal government. The comment period ends March 31, 2023.

2023

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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