Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. Early efforts primarily focused on land-based approaches, but interest in ocean-based approaches, also known as marine CDR, has grown in recent years. ocean waters. judge-made) law.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” United States , 547 U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to issue pollutant discharge permits. The case involved a wastewater treatment facility that discharged treated water into San Francisco Bay under a CWA permit issued by EPA. How is mCDR affected?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. 2023 Wisconsin Act 5 Is Signed Into Law A new law which incentivizes sustainable farming practices was signed into law last week by Wisconsin Gov.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.

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Vorys Law

MAY 25, 2023

In a highly anticipated opinion, the United States Supreme Court narrowed the scope of waters and wetlands considered to be "waters of the United States" ("WOTUS") and, therefore, subject to jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. In Sackett v. 2023) ( citing Rapanos v.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. The EPA memo only addresses ocean acidification from a 303(d) list perspective and does not modify EPA’s Recommended Marine pH Criteria.

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National Law Center

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: December 10, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Sovereign.

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National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 04 Jun NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Trash that is lost, littered, blown, or washed into the ocean is an issue of growing environmental concern. Los Angeles is a leader in using the federal Clean Water Act tool of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) to mitigate a major contributing source of marine trash: urban stormwater. in the ocean, where it.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The wetlands at issue are separated by a 30-foot road from an unnamed tributary that feeds into a non-navigable creek that feeds into Priest Lake, a navigable but wholly intrastate water body. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA , 598 U.S. at (slip op.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean. The court held that the county had violated the CWA by indirectly discharging into the ocean without a NPDES permit. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. County of Maui, Hawaii v.

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National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 12 Jun The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 11, from June 12, 2025.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE seeks to counteract ocean acidification, while also increasing carbon storage in the oceans. By Romany M. Webb and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §

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The Energy Law

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. This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al.

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The Energy Law

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs in these cases also challenge the adequacy of the agencies’ assessments under NEPA and the ESA, as well as under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

My presentation was titled: Environmental Disasters that Led to Environmental Laws. This presentation reminded me of how our environmental laws in this country have been enacted. This presentation reminded me of how our environmental laws in this country have been enacted. Some argue this is all just part of a cycle.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Newton writes that Spezio explores the relationships between oil pollution and political changes in the 1970s and asks how the Santa Barbara oil spill became a watershed moment in the history of environmental and science policy in the US, especially in regard to the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA).

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million in civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, as well as administrative penalties under the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act. The Trustees for this incident include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

not Massachusetts) and to the one nearly each fireworks control law are regulating for public safety by a state fire marshall for “firework shooters, explosive blasters, explosive manufacturing, and explosive sales.” 49 states plus DC allow some or all types of consumer fireworks (.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That should change now that the Department of Justice (DOJ), acting jointly on behalf of EPA and BSEE, has announced its settlement with ATP Infrastructure Partners (ATP-IP) in the first joint judicial enforcement action resolving alleged violations of both the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. 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. Photographs by J.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The two professors, David Nixon and John Zavodni, were not merely interested in the bounty provision of the law (a common feature of legislation in the late 19th century,) but they wanted to make a point: the rivers were a dump. But if Justice declined to act, the two intrepid canoers were positioned to make a political statement as well.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Today, pellets are found globally throughout the ocean and across diverse ecosystems. Yes, like all plastics in the ocean, nurdles pose a great threat to marine life.

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Acoel

JUNE 25, 2024

In 2020 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals similarly ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management should have estimated emissions from foreign oil consumption in reviewing the environmental impacts of an offshore oil drilling and production facility. This case will not be an exception to that rule. This NEPA case is no exception.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court will hear a case that may narrow the scope of a landmark environmental law. In Recent Water News. What’s Up With Water—January 24, 2022 – This week’s episode covers a strategically important dam in Syria that was the target of a U.S. water companies that are under scrutiny for improperly handling wastewater.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” — Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, speaking to the Sacramento Bee about the cancellation of the state’s salmon fishing season. People don’t realize how much California’s a salmon state.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2024

Recently, a federal court denied two back-to-back motions by a group called Green Oceans to preliminarily enjoin construction of the 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island. For background, in January 2024, Green Oceans filed a complaint in the U.S.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Governor noted that he has reached out to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) to create a task force of federal, state and local officials tasked with mapping out a plan for renewable energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. One topic of discussion at the meeting was offshore energy production.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Governor noted that he has reached out to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) to create a task force of federal, state and local officials tasked with mapping out a plan for renewable energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. One topic of discussion at the meeting was offshore energy production.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Rob Portman (R-OH) reauthorizes the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Act through FY 2027 and authorizes $20 million a year for the program. White House OSTP – Ocean Climate Action Plan.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a person immersed in this interior, “fresh coast” worldview, I hadn’t spent much time considering how our practices might affect the ocean thousands of miles away. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. In short, all water is connected. Enter your email and never miss an update.

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