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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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Zero Trash: Using the Clean Water Act to Control Marine Debris in California

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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. ,

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Taking Bets: The Supreme Court Is Just About to Split NPDES and Section 404 Permitting Under the Clean Water Act

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The Supreme Court is stepping once more into Clean Water Actwaters 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.

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EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Issue Draft Guidance on Waters Protected by Clean Water Act

The Energy Law

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. 715 (2006). Army Corps of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (2001) (SWANCC) and Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S.

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EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

Ohio Environmental Law

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v.

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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. As for large construction activities, they previously required NPDES permits (prior to June 12, 2006). 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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EPA Publishes WOTUS Update Following Sackett Decision

Ohio Environmental Law

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v.