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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

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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.

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The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Legal Planet

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. Inflation Reduction Act.

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

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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. million more tons than in 2005. The growth has been exponential. Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S.

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

The Energy Law

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) added language creating a permitting exemption for uncontaminated runoff from Oil and Gas operations.

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A Summary of Professor Jim Rossi’s Lecture on the “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation”

The Energy Law

To illustrate these conflicts in energy transportation, Professor Rossi used two transportation examples that differ in geography, product transported, governing body historically responsible for regulation, and often in public perception. However, such a line still requires state Water Quality Certification under the Clean Water Act § 401.

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Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

The Energy Law

The Ninth Circuit found EPA’s rule, which was a codification of a recent exemption added to the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), to be an impermissible interpretation of the Act. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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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. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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