Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution.
E2 Law Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Infrastructure-related challenges require solutions that address a variety of environmental concerns, including wetlands permitting, mitigation and mitigation availability, solid-waste treatment and disposal, and other related issues. Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.
Law and Environment
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in the Sackett case, in which the Sacketts are hoping that SCOTUS will finally issue a clear decision narrowing the scope of jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. I have stayed out of the SCOTUS prediction game because I find such speculation to be a waste of time.
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. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. The Government Accountability Office says that Congress needs to come up with a permanent solution , since the Yucca Mountain storage site has been taken off the table. Global Water Strategy. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. And it left Steglitz irritated that he and his staff have to spend so much energy reacting to chemical threats that compromise Ann Arbor’s drinking water. “It’s It’s frustrating,” he said. In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.
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