PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Joe Webster (D-Montgomery), would provide for a minimum 100 foot riparian buffer along each side of a surface body of water, with a minimum 300 foot buffer for streams that have been designated as High Quality or Exceptional Value. Current regulations do not take wetlands and vernal ponds into account at all.”

Environmental Protection

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 2, 2022

Understand the source of your water… Local rivers, streams, reservoirs and other aquatic bodies are source water, the provider of drinking water to local communities. In the United States, 9 out of 10 people receive their water resources from a public system that uses source water.

Waste

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Before the Clean Water Act of 1972, watersheds across the nation, including our own here in Philadelphia, were literal dumping grounds for industry, treatment plants and domestic households for generations. were unsanitary places before the Clean Water Act. Waterways across the U.S. Mike Servedio/ANS.

Clean Water Act

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

2021