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).
Legal Planet
AUGUST 4, 2022
What wetlands and waterbodies does the Clean Water Act protect? The Biden Administration is in the process of issuing a new regulation on the subject. A little quick background: The term “navigable waters” traditionally meant water bodies that could be used for transportation. Not a good sign.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. This conference will provide an important, interdisciplinary perspective on the Clean Water Act and water quality issues, thanks to CELPC’s conference planning partners: U.C.D’s
Environment, Law, and History
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. And the number of private CWA enforcement lawsuits far exceeds those brought by federal and state regulators.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Occasional opposition to local pollution problems and the casual animal cruelty that characterize conventional US dairy, hog, and poultry production did little to alter practices that are embedded in the rural landscape. to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. That may be changing.
Vermont Law
MARCH 30, 2020
On September 12, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a judgment that added another untenable wrinkle in the fabric of groundwater pollution regulation. At first blush, groundwater appears distinct from the federally regulated category of navigable waters. Sierra Club v.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
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 The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste.
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