PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014. She also served as a Policy Fellow for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, as well as a canvasser for U.S

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Much of the water and sewer infrastructure in Michigan began with a huge move by the federal government to fund the building of water and sewer systems starting in the late 19 th century. The federal government passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, and spending on drinking water and wastewater systems skyrocketed.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.”

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.

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The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 25, 2008

By Claire Bienvenu On May 23, 2008, the Ninth Circuit vacated EPA’s rule exempting discharges of sediment resulting from oil and gas construction activities from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. Once Cleared Harmful Blooms. did it once before. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. The EPA had promulgated a rule exempting smaller farms from mandatory air emissions reporting requirements back in 2008. Then, the D.C. EPA in 2017.

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Acoel

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2022, the on-going debate will continue over the hotly contested definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), a phrase that determines the scope of federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waterbodies under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Proposed Rule 2.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. To qualify for the federal dollars, the water body must be impaired and have an approved plan. In 2008, EPA designated the entire watershed as impaired. Robert Casey (D-Pa.)

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2008, there were 400,000 with over 90% of them in captive herds with a gradual increase in wild herds of both plains and woodland bison. Nevertheless, their numbers are increasing, both in captivity and in the wild. Their status today is “Near Threatened”. Bat Conservation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? Since Obama’s election in 2008, the two sides have more or less switched. Train, 420 U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, Ecuador. Clean Water Act, passed in 1972 over President Nixon’s veto. that 46% of river and stream miles, 32% of wetland areas, and 18% of coastal and Great Lakes waters are in “poor biological condition.” EPA reports. Healthy Waters Act. human right to water for basic needs.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Water worries. The EPA has identified more than 21,000 large CAFOs across the country but just 6,266 of those operate with wastewater discharge permits under the Clean Water Act designed to control and restrict pollutants discharged into waterways, according to EPA figures. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

After decades of controversy, the project was vetoed by the EPA in 2008 under the Clean Water Act. As the Trump administration rolls back EPA regulations, the president has suggested rescinding the agencys authority to use the Clean Water Act to veto projects.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) erred in its analyses of climate change’s impact on the Rio Grande cutthroat trout when it determined in 2014 that the species no longer warranted listing under the Endangered Species Act. Stephenson v.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. On April 6, the court issued written reasons for its decision.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few. As well, the CBD argues that “expeditious construction” language in the statute requires barriers to be built as soon as possible after the law’s enactment, which has already elapsed under the 2008 deadline.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The approval of the permit was therefore contrary to law because climate change had to be considered “to some extent” in order for Ecology to act consistently with implementing regulations under the Clean Water Act and the Water Pollution Control Act. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash.

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