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MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. water systems are aging. In some communities, this means water bills that residents can’t afford or water that’s unsafe to drink. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

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? Morton opened the door for environmental groups to sue over government actions, something that Justice Scalia had opposed since his days as a law professor.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

The decision strips key environmental protections from the Clean Water Act by narrowly defining which bodies of water can be regulated under the Act, making it the most important water-related case in decades.

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JULY 11, 2022

EPA lies the “major questions” doctrine: the legal argument that federal agencies may not rule on matters of “great economic and political significance” without direct approval from Congress. America’s political landscape is more polarized than ever. Basic science on climate and environment is seen as political.

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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. It’s now being raised as a political issue. Water worries.

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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. Like today, 1973 was a time of political turmoil. The first EPA Administrator took office in 1971.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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Circle of Blue

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. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 12, 2022

lands and water and 30 percent of U.S. The order proclaims an “all of government” approach to strengthening climate resilience and biodiversity while promoting environmental justice and economic growth. Might there be a political explanation? ocean areas by 2030. Is this an inadvertent oversight?

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

For those uninitiated in the moving target describing what are “navigable waters of the United States,” defining where those waterways begin and end, has since the enactment of the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act been the subject of disputes between the federal government and land owners.

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Circle of Blue

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. You can think of chloride as a permanent pollutant in the water,” said Christe Alwin of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

. “People are starting to understand that rivers and clean waters are like the heart and lungs of the country…In a hundred years we have done so much bad to them.” – Arttu Kuiri, forester with Finland’s state-owned forestry company Metsähallitus. In context: EPA Clean Water Rule Meets Political Pushback.

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MARCH 23, 2022

In Recent Water News. Unsafe Yield – Severe drought, dead well, and political division push Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril. Read the second of three reports on Arizona’s water reckoning. On the Radar.

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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. government water policy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Other States/National/International -- AP: Policy, Climate, War Make 2022 ‘Pivot Year’ For Clean Energy -- The Economist: Why Climate Change Is Intimately Tied To Biodiversity PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Meadville Tribune: U.S. Raises Going Around In PA State Government Come Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

15 Celebrating 50 Years Of The Federal Clean Water Act, Pittsburgh -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Oct. 23-24 -- Erie Times - Brian Whipkey: Game Commission To Consider Outlawing Deer Urine Attractants To Decrease Spread Of Chronic Wasting Disease -- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Rep. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

The report criticizes global governance and financing systems for not funding work that is key to building resilience to natural hazards. billion infrastructure package, allocating federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. In March, Gov.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Read more on the agenda. -- DEP: Tuesday Declared Air Quality Action Day In Liberty-Clairton Area Allegheny County -- Guest Essay: Before The Federal Clean Water Act, There Was The Rivers And Harbors Act Of 1899 To Help Clean-Up Pittsburgh’s 3 Rivers - By James M. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Citizens Voice: Special House Election Set For Tuesday In Luzerne County -- Reading Eagle: PA’s Mail-In Balloting Had Big Impact In 2020, But Will It Continue? What’s Your Community Doing? Senate Candidate Debate Without Fetterman -- Inquirer: Fetterman Skipped First Democratic U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If How this happened is a study in what the Whitmer administration and EGLE officials assert is a political compromise. Compromise Sought, More Pollution is Result.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With many federal judges sympathetic to the MQD’s anti-regulatory bent, and the Supreme Court majority that created this doctrine predicted to last for years, a legislative response from Congress may be a practical solution – if the politics can handle it. Env’t Prot. As Justice Kagan points out in her Biden v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Penn State EarthTalks Presentation: Solar Energy Policy And Politics In Pennsylvania. Upper Providence Twp. Building, 1286 Black Rock Road, Phoenixville, Chester County. MONDAY 4:00: In-Person, Virtual. WEDNESDAY 7:00: Virtual. What’s Your Community Doing? Have The Power To Charge It? -- Bloomberg: Will The U.S.

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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).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2022

26 Get To Know The Clear Creek State Forest, Noon 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- October 19, 1973: First Of Six Major Fossil Fuel Embargos For Political Gain, This One By OPEC Over U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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MAY 2, 2022

As the nation prepares to pour hundreds of billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, the Great Lakes News Collaborative investigates the true cost of water in Michigan. Communities are drafting affordable water programs and lobbying for state and federal assistance to supplement them. . PONTIAC, Mich. –

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Heating Worries Mount Amid Growing Costs, Uncertainty American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. Senate And Why Some Are Still Undecided -- Politics PA: Fox 29 Poll: PA U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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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. .

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Congress Clean Water Act: President Joe Biden vetoed a Congressional Review Act measure that would have nullified the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule, which seeks to define the “Water of the U.S.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Million In Clergy Child Sexual Abuse Reparations, Far Less Than Anticipated -- Erie Times Guest Essay: PA’s Private Cyber Charter Schools Cost Taxpayers And Businesses -- WITF: Teen Charged With Making Shooting Threat Toward Franklin County School District -- Erie Times: McDowell H.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funding -- Bay Journal: PA Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Fund Clean Water Projects And Help The Chesapeake Bay - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Congress passes a deal to keep the government funded through Dec. How Government Ends – Boston Review.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Environmental Defence joined other groups in the Priorities Working Group in asking all political parties for clear commitments to reverse these changes while also fixing gaps in Ontario’s natural heritage safety net that predate the past 4 years. In particular, they were asked’. Did not answer the question.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Release of the report falls on the heels of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment that sparked national media coverage and renewed political attention to the region and the critical role the Ohio River has in the heartland. There is more work to be done and vital federal resources are needed to sustain this work.

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