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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

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

Vermont Law

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. the environmental law and policy blog of UCLA Law School and UC Berkeley Law School. . Clean Water Act. ,

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Fighting Big Coal––Washington Judge Allows Novel Clean Water Act Citizens’ Suit to Proceed

Vermont Law

If proven, this would constitute violations of the federal Clean Water Act. _. list of dates and locations since 2008, and even provided an appendix of dates and locations where [they] believed BNSF to have discharged pollutants in the manner described.”. By Kelly Nokes.

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Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay Host April 4 Caring For Our Local Waterways Webinar

PA Environment Daily

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

Acoel

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. 3d —, 2022 WL 952072, at *2 (D.

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Sackett Preview: Sound and Fury Signaling What Exactly?

Acoel

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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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

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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