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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

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A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. Department of Agriculture Publications and National Center for Water Quality, Heidelberg University.

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You Cannot Just Read the Regulations to Understand Stormwater Permitting for Oil and Gas Activities!

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To understand the stormwater permit requirements for oil and gas activities, you need to review not only the regulations that remain in force, but also the Clean Water Act as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d CWA §402(l)(2).

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New U.S. Climate Law Will Make Water Contamination Worse

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Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. Environmental Protection Agency identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice

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The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7 The cost share could be the same as the early Clean Water Act support to curb point source pollution from municipal wastewater treatment plants.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

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His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. If the U.S.

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

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