2009 Clean Water Act Environmental Protection 
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
She holds a PhD in environmental health engineering from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and has also worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 17, 2024
It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. Such a test leaves protection to the mercy of the states. Photo by Derrick Z. Yet, the nation is losing ground on wetlands.
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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. In 2009, the U.S.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 17, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency visited four this spring to assess any potential for water quality problems locally or for the Chesapeake Bay. Budget cuts forced the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to slash inspection and enforcement staff. That may seem like a drop in the bucket.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
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.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2021
“We appreciate the work of our partner jurisdictions and local communities as they take actions to reduce pollution to local waters and the Bay," said Diana Esher, Acting Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Atlantic Region. Click Here for the complete announcement.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 18, 2023
The Ohio River has made tremendous progress through the processes of both The Safe Drinking Water Act and The Clean Water Act. ORBA’s primary goal is to have Congress recognize the Ohio River Basin as threatened and deserving of sustained funding.
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