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.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. It’s now being raised as a political issue. Water worries. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Applying Clean Water Act to shrimp trawlers’ dumping of bycatch back in the ocean. The Court described major questions issues as arising in rare, extraordinary cases of immense economic and political significance. NRC , 2023 WL 5498874 (5 th Cir. NC Coastal Fisheries Reform Group v. Gason , LLC, 76 F. 4 th 291 (4 th Cir.

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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. Q: What does th e Sackett v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

They will teach citizens how they can make a difference for clean water and health soil.” Funding for the grants, up to $2,000 each, is provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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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. appeared first on ACOEL.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

Posted May 24, 2023 by Tracy Hester In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. bars against citizen suits for entirely past violations of the Clean Water Act under the Gwaltney doctrine).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

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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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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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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 6, 2022

Melosi, Carolyn Merchant, Roderick Nash, Adam Rome, and Paul Sutter, among many others—Coodley and Sarasohn offer here an exhaustive play-by-play account of the legislative battles between 1964 and 1976 that led to the passage of some of the most important environmental laws in the United States.

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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. Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters Rivers and lakes are becoming saltier while law and practice limit effective responses.

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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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Acoel

JANUARY 12, 2022

Might there be a political explanation? When it comes to water resources, tensions run even higher. The hallmarks of water law include settled expectations of water users, states’ rights, and extremely high institutional fragmentation, along with fierce territorialism. Is this an inadvertent oversight?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”.

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MAY 31, 2023

In Senegal , water-saving farming methods are producing higher rice yields while improving soil health. Supreme Court narrowed Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that aren’t directly connected to “lakes, oceans, streams, and rivers.” “The The attempt succeeded. from polluters and development.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

Of note, Section 10 states that “All waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide (tidal action) are navigable waters of the US”. Navigable waters are identified in the Clean Water Act as “the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas.”

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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. district court judge in Arizona overturned the Trump administration’s definition of which waterbodies are regulated by the Clean Water Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Scientific expertise without local, political, or legal knowledge is not enough to take on powerful organizations. With degrees in environmental science and the law, Sligh has a foot in both the science and policy worlds and a unique perspective on their intersection.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court will hear a case that may narrow the scope of a landmark environmental law. Supreme Court agreed to consider limiting the scope of the Clean Water Act. In 2006, the Court defined a wetland as any body of water which has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. On Monday, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“It really does come down to the fact that poor people, that have the least ability to pay, are the ones who are forced to come up with the dollars to upgrade their infrastructure, but the problem is coming from external forces,” says Nick Schroeck, the former director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. And political power with it.

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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. 15 Celebrating 50 Years Of The Federal Clean Water Act, Pittsburgh -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

11 Hearing On Bill To Expand Renewable Energy Mandates In Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Controversial Solar Energy Project In Adams County Loses In Court Again -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.

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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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MAY 3, 2022

The roughly $50 billion for water and sewer systems in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law by President Biden last November, will be the largest federal infusion of money into the sector in a half century, ever since the Clean Water Act led to construction grants for modern sewage treatment.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two bills—the Supreme Court Ethics Act ( S325 / HR927 ) and the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act ( S359 / HR926 )—would enshrine ethics requirements into law, but Republicans seem to hope that the Court will make changes on its own and reduce the pressure for legislation. In their Sackett v.

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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. An ongoing Supreme Court case (Sackett vs. EPA) has the potential to shape the scope of this law. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts. EPA case by early summer 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two bills—the Supreme Court Ethics Act ( S325 / HR927 ) and the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act ( S359 / HR926 )—would enshrine ethics requirements into law, but Republicans seem to hope that the Court will make changes on its own and reduce the pressure for legislation. In their Sackett v.

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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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Des Moines Water Works alleged the agricultural drains were point sources that required NPDES permits, and the water works sought monetary damages to recoup the costs of treating the river water to remove excess nitrates due to the agricultural pollution. environmental law when it comes to agricultural water pollution.

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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.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

Congress President Joe Biden vetoes measure to nullify the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Senate And Why Some Are Still Undecided -- Politics PA: Fox 29 Poll: PA U.S. 21 RiverWatch Video Report -- Environmental Hearing Board Publishes Final Regulations Making Changes To Practice & Procedures -- October 22 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- EPA To Host Public Discussion Of Exide Superfund Cleanup Oct. 25 At Muhlenberg H.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

Other States/National/International -- The Guardian: EPA Aims To Erase Rule Keeping States From Blocking Energy Projects Under Section 401 Of Federal Clean Water Act -- AP: EPA Moves To Give States, Tribes More Power To Protect Water -- Bloomberg: Biden Would Give States Veto Power Over Polluting Pipeline Under Section 401 Of Federal Clean Water Act (..)

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