Smith Enviorment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

An existing water quality rule, 15A NCAC 2H.0208, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires every state that issues federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permits for wastewater discharges — National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits — to adopt a version of the narrative standard.

2023

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

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Recycling

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

About 10 percent of the more than 45 billion tons of coal burned in the United States since 1970, most of it for electricity, ends up as coal ash, one of the nation’s largest waste streams. Billions of tons of ash have been scrubbed from air, flushed from the bottom of furnaces and washed and dried from pollution control equipment.

2015

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

million tonnes of uncovered lead waste in dumps, much of which seeps into surface and groundwater sources. aims to purify 10 million gallons of water each day. The post The Stream, March 6, 2025: Clean Water Act Weakened Again by U.S. The plant, the first of its kind in the U.S.,

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

The statutes that form the foundation of the program, like the 1972 Clean Water Act, dont seek to close polluting plants. The 1970 Clean Air Act led to restrictions on lead, particulates, and nitrogen from tailpipes that cleared the air of smog and led to much better vehicles.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Acoel

APRIL 23, 2025

Regardless of where people stand on the political spectrum, presumably theres much they can agree on, for example: reducing the quantity and toxicity of waste; conserving natural resources and water; building an adequate infrastructure to manage potable water and wastewater; and making energy available while protecting the environment.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Tioga County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Commonwealth Court Rules Elizabeth Twp., In Allegheny County Violated Its Own Zoning Ordinance To Allow Shale Gas Well Pad, Pipeline To Be Built In A Residential Area -- Environmental Hearing Board Denies Request To End Appeal Of Catalyst Energy, Inc.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp.,

Conservation

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

The Clean Water Act contains two anti-backsliding provisions. These provisions of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act are the opposite: they mean that existing activities won’t benefit if existing regulations are weakened. The major one is in section 401.

Clean Air Act

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

Fish and Wildlife Service, called it a waste of money and destructive to the environment. After decades of controversy, the project was vetoed by the EPA in 2008 under the Clean Water Act. Critics, including the U.S. It would have damaged wetlands in two wildlife refuges and a national forest.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eventually, the company agreed to a $310 million settlement with the federal government for Clean Water Act violations and to cover the costs of a cleanup and water and health monitoring programs in the community. EPA employees, including those that oversee hazardous waste cleanup, are being pushed out of the agency.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Of Agriculture Expands Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Bradford, Sullivan, Venango, Wyoming Counties [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE Adds 509 Acres To Protected Land Along Susquehanna River Water Gaps In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- MCall: Lower Macungie Twp.

Conservation

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Almost every one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, enacted since 1970, is under attack: Coal-fired power plants are being allowed to increase emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants, a rewrite of a Clean Air Act provision in place since 1990. Rivers and bays were scrubbed of municipal and industrial waste.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2025

Owner failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Read more here. Violations continued. Owner requested to respond by July 21. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. The wells include-- -- Aleppo Twp.: Merle Minnic Unit 1 , Merle Minnic Unit 2 -- Glenfield Boro: John Straka Unit 2 -- Ohio Twp.:

2025

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.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. Comprehensive Emergency Response and Cleanup Act (CERCLA ). Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. Other substances are more dangerous but the number of people exposed is much smaller.

Law

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. . Photographs by J.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. The prime ones are erosion and flood control, waste treatment, water purification, recreation, and tourism.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

to bring its waste treatment and disposal facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. In April 2024, the EPA announced an agreement with MAX that would address the facility’s compliance with state and federal hazardous waste management regulations.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. 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 It’s frustrating,” he said.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 12, 2023

The lawsuit alleges that the EPA has violated the Clean Water Act by failing to set limits on the amount of pollution that these industries can discharge into waterways. The post EPA Sued Over Unregulated Water Pollution appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

has agreed to a consent order that includes several actions to ensure compliance with federal and state hazardous waste safeguards at the company’s waste facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County, the U.S. RCRA is the principal federal hazardous waste storage and disposal statute. On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc.

Waste

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. What does this mean for workers and communities?

Waste

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.

2020

MGKF Law

AUGUST 30, 2022

In order to bring a citizen suit in federal district court under the Clean Water Act, 33 USC § 1365(a)(1), the plaintiff must first give “notice of the alleged violation” to the alleged violator, the EPA, and the State at least 60 days prior to commencing suit. In Shark River Cleanup Coalition v. §135.3(a).

Clean Water Act

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. Inevitably, municipal solid waste collection fails to capure all trash. Wind blows waste out of landfills. Clean Water Act. ,

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. Regan also said that the EPA will propose a draft regulation in November that would define the waterbodies that are regulated by the Clean Water Act. By the Numbers. 86,000 Metric Tons : Amount of used nuclear fuel from U.S. commercial power reactors.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2022

Federal nuclear regulators intend to issue a license for an interim nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico. Nuclear Waste Storage in New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Agency intends to issue a license to Holtec International to build and operate a nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico.

Clean Water Act

Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Supreme Court is stepping once more into Clean Water Act “waters of the United States,” more popularly known as WOTUS. If you’re a Clean Water Act wonk, there may be a little voice in the back of your head yelling, “Theeeey’re baaack!” United States.

Clean Water Act

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.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The EPA intends to deny a Clean Water Act permit for a mine development in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Officials sign a Navajo-Utah water rights settlement. The EPA announces an interagency working group for water reuse. The Rundown. NOAA expects another above-average Atlantic hurricane season. By the Numbers.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

This includes conducting a comprehensive review of stormwater discharges and groundwater contamination and implementing initiatives to ensure compliance with environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and parallel Pennsylvania laws.

Clean Water Act

Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

Supreme Court has issued a decision significantly limiting federal Clean Water Act regulation of wetlands just as the N.C. General Assembly has been moving legislation to limit state water quality protection for wetlands. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution.

Clean Water Act

The Energy Law

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).

Clean Water Act

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The character and culture of Philadelphia have always been linked to water. The rivers that gird the city are our gateway to the world, a source of drinking water, and, paradoxically, a site for waste disposal. The repulsive conditions of water in the Schuylkill and the Delaware were the stuff of legend by the mid-20th century.

Clean Water Act