The Energy Law Blog

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. It is unclear how these developments may affect, if at all, future EPA Ocean Discharge Criteria evaluations under Section 403 of the Clean Water Act.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following the science and the Clean Water Act to develop technology-based pollution limits and studies on wastewater discharges from industrial sources.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

These laws have reduced extreme cases of pollution, such as rivers catching on fire or streams changing color due to industrial waste. PaEN] -- Mountain Watershed Assn.

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JULY 18, 2022

On water impacts: because there are no federally regulated waters or wetlands in the area, Holtec will not need Clean Water Act permits. The NRC and BLM concluded that any effects from construction and operations would be “small.”. On the Radar. PFAS Research Agenda.

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Acoel

AUGUST 2, 2021

We must take a fresh look at water rights (understanding that in most western states they are real property rights and any reallocation would come through compensation and cooperation), water banking, water metering, watershed protection, development of water resources and technologies, Clean Water Act objectives, and aquifer preservation measures.

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National Law Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In late January, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it was seeking public comment on its proposal to revise technology-based. The post EPA Proposes Updates to Effluent Limitations for Meat and Poultry Processors appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Steven Miano I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.),

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Acoel

APRIL 13, 2023

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Ridge Hall What can a frustrated state legislator do when the agency implementing the Clean Water Act fails to renew expired permits or sanction major violators? Legislation recently adopted by Maryland provides some innovative answers. Here’s the problem.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Conservation Innovation Grants are critical for developing science, technology and innovative tools to address natural resource concerns on Pennsylvania’s private working lands,” said State Conservationist Denise Coleman. These grants help bridge the gap between initial product development and taking that product or approach to market.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

What’s more is that the Source Water Protection Plans , which include recommendations for computer models, technology, and monitoring of water resources, served their purpose. The plans helped identify the risk to drinking water and its location, scale, and duration.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 20, 2023

Arnold & Porter’s Environmental Practice Group is pleased to announce that the American Bar Association has published Clean Water Act Essentials. The four authors each brought extensive expertise and practical experience on the Clean Water Act (CWA) to the project.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With this rule, Pennsylvania moved ahead of the EPA in protecting drinking water and joined a small group of states that set regulatory limits for some PFAS chemicals in drinking water. The MCLs are effective immediately but most systems will conduct initial monitoring in 2024 and 2025.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When the deadline passed, environmental groups sued the EPA alleging that the EPA’s delay violated the Clean Water Act. The SNPR also concludes that under the EPA’s analysis, a stricter ballast water discharge standard would not be the “Best Available Technology Economically Achievable,” or “BAT.”

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Everybody knows there are straightforward management practices and technologies that could significantly reduce agricultural water pollution. For fifty years the Clean Water Act has exempted agriculture from federal regulation and left the problem for the states to regulate.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

federal laws include the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, and the Clean Water Act. Potentially applicable U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

The rule also specifies requirements to ensure compliance with the MCLs, including monitoring and reporting, analytical requirements and approved treatment technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

2024 Integrated Water Quality Report Dustin Shull, Bureau of Clean Water, is providing a presentation on the 2024 Integrated Water Quality Report that is going out for public comment starting September 23 for a 45-day comment period that ends November 7. Click Here for DEP’s presentation.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. The Clean Water Act has also proven ineffective because EPA does not require limits on PFAS discharges into streams or rivers. Toxic Substances Control Act. EPA has only. sparingly used. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. While there is.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A determined woman with a keen mind, Taylor knows farming, environment, water, minerals, education, and a lot more about Lenawee County where she lives. For much of her career she taught an International Baccalaureate course in information technology, business, and math to high schoolers, some of whom are now friends. .

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Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

EI’s environmental expertise includes wetlands and water compliance, restoration and revegetation services, and permitting under the Clean Water Act and federal and state Endangered Species Acts.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

The EMC and water quality staff in the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) spent seven years developing a nutrient management strategy to address water quality standard violations in Jordan Lake as required by the federal Clean Water Act and by state water quality laws. That isn’t broken.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

approximately from Philadelphia, PA to Wilmington, DE) – last updated in 1967 – do not meet the goals of the Clean Water Act. Until now, these requests have failed to spark the necessary protective actions required under the Clean Water Act to preserve the health of the Estuary.

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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. But 50 years after its creation, the Clean Water Act has proven substantially less effective in other areas. (credit: Amazon). Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The extraction phase can involve destruction of lands, risks to endangered species, water pollution from oil spills or leaching from mines, and serious dangers to workers. But this excuse is wearing thin as clean technologies have advanced.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) : Set up by the EPA to determine standards for clean water (part of the Clean Water Act). It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted. 10 Key International Environmental Laws.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They disproportionately impact people that financially are at the bottom of society,” said Sinha, senior vice president of the research group Environmental Consulting & Technology. . The Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To address this challenge—and this incredible opportunity—TNC and Opti , a technology company, began thinking of ways to use new, low-cost “smart” technologies to improve water quality by focusing on stormwater infrastructure. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2022

This federal investment will help us work more cooperatively with farmers and expand the use of the best-available technologies to identify the most effective conservation strategies to reduce pollution that enters the Susquehanna River Basin.” The Pequea Creek restoration plan was approved by DEP and is awaiting final EPA approval.

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Biden Administration’s action plan highlights “lack of data, lack of technology, and a need for greater capacity” as key road blocks to accelerating the development of needed infrastructure. Permitting reform is needed to accelerate the implementation of these projects.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

For example, EPA under the Clean Water Act established 129 “ Priority Pollutants ” in 1976, a list of which is a typical analytical suite that you can order as a package. Clean Water Act. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Strengthen environmental regulations like the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Toxic Substances Control Act protections to reduce pollution and climate impacts in fenceline communities. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Geological Survey for grants and other financial assistance to water resources research and technology institutes and centers. Legislative updates: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the Restoring Resilient Reefs Act ( S. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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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. White House: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will meet Nov 9, 2022. Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet – Associated Press.

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