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.

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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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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. 2015-011-L ).

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. Her finding revealed a major source of phosphorus that drains from farmland and contributed to the harmful algal bloom that shut down Toledo’s drinking water plant for three days the year before. EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Restoring Assets It has only been one generation since waterways across the state were contaminated with industrial waste, chemicals, and other pollutants to the point that rivers were on fire and devoid of aquatic life. million to organizations to plant buffers -- increasing Pennsylvania’s climate resiliency and helping to clean waterways.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If a PRP sent some amount of the hazardous waste found at the site, that party is liable. Waste management and wastewater treatment facilities. Toxic Substances Control Act section 7 imminently hazardous chemical. Furthermore, CERCLA liability extends to all “potentially responsible parties” (PRPs). PFOA and/or PFOS processors.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

In addition to the environmental policy changes in the budget, several bills amended environmental laws. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. Swine waste management.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

EPA , the Supreme Court used the “major question doctrine” to overturn Obama’s signature climate change regulation. The cases are split 3 to 3, with some courts applying the major question to regulations that were so minor I’d never heard of them. In West Virginia v. No, not a major question. Biden , 67 F.4

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Stormwater Management.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

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. the environmental law and policy blog of UCLA Law School and UC Berkeley Law School. . Wind blows waste out of landfills.

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Acoel

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lehner What we grow and produce in America affects our air, water, climate, wildlife, public health, and more. The Farm Bill is likely the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture.)

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. These expenses trickle down into residents’ water bills. The effects of toxic blooms don’t stop at water treatment plants. It was our way of confronting those laws and those systems.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. In virtually all other nations, enforcement of water pollution control and other environmental laws is the sole responsibility of government regulators. (credit: Amazon).

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. Facts about the environment differ depending where you get your information, but they are fascinating, and hopefully I got these right (US): 350 Billion gallons of water daily, 7% of all precipitation. 7% to homes of 258 Million people through 160,000 public water supplies, 40% to agriculture.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The EPA’s internal watchdog reports that small water systems are lagging on cybersecurity measures. And lastly, the EPA reports that more polluters are obeying the limits of their waste discharge permits. 9 Percent : Share of polluters that did not meet their Clean Water Act discharge permit this year, according to the EPA.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

NOTE : The EPA will be hosting a webinar on this topic on Nov. 2 at 2:00 p.m. EST. On Oct. 18, 2021, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the EPA’s strategy to address certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): PFAS Strategic Roadmap: EPA’s Commitment to Action 2021-2024.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 25, 2008

The Ninth Circuit found EPA’s rule, which was a codification of a recent exemption added to the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), to be an impermissible interpretation of the Act. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It manufactures plastics, and is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). billion complex in St. billion complex in St.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 17, 2011

Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 27, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. 715 (2006).

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Knowing the wide-ranging impacts of pollution on our ocean, I’m reassured by the existence of the Clean Water Act (CWA) – the legal framework for preserving and restoring “waters of the United States”. are the most likely to face challenges in accessing clean water and sanitation.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. However, these structures have not sufficiently addressed agriculture’s impact on the nation’s water resources. to reduce otherwise externalized wastes.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. .

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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Acoel

MARCH 7, 2022

But before I preach about plastic waste, with my mood lightened by this ray of hope, let me just offer a quick reminder of a foundational point: the law of conservation of mass , which recognizes that matter (with its specific mass) can change form, but before and after the change, the mass remains the same. Now, back to plastic waste.

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Acoel

JUNE 8, 2022

Recently, I was asked to moderate a panel to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. It gave me the opportunity to think about the power of environmental legislation, specifically in the context of maintaining clean water. Nobody can honestly debate the power and effectiveness of this law.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 11, the Environmental Quality Board will consider DEP’s report on a rulemaking petition to raise the well plugging bonding amounts for conventional oil and gas wells, proposed changes to state water quality criteria and other regulations. As a result of that change in law, DEP recommends the Board deny the petition.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

On July 11, the Environmental Quality Board voted to accept the Department’s report on a rulemaking petition submitted by the Sierra Club and other groups in September of 2021 that the EQB no longer has the authority to adjust well bonding amounts for 10 years under Act 96 passed and signed into law by Gov. Wolf on July 19, 2022.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. . Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2022

Tell your Senate and House members they need to act to protect and restore Pennsylvania’s environment and support the tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who do-- not slide backwards.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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