2014 Clean Water Act Law 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
This is why the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic investments provided a long overdue federal commitment to improving and protecting water quality (and why current threats to it and the agencies like EPA administering funds are so misguided). Upgrading infrastructure is expensive! San Francisco City and County v.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. Their drinking water contained microcystin, a toxin known to cause diarrhea, vomiting, and liver damage at small concentrations. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.
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Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”.
The Energy Law
DECEMBER 9, 2021
On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. Kirby has been a cooperating responsible party and paid for removal costs. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9
Vermont Law
APRIL 19, 2019
Four non-profit environmental groups (Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation, and West Maui Preservation Association) brought a suit against the County of Maui, alleging that the county violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) because they did not have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
Vermont Law
MARCH 24, 2014
If proven, this would constitute violations of the federal Clean Water Act. _. On March 12, 2014, the Honorable John C. The court went on to state that “[t]o require more… would be to require the ‘impossible’ upon citizens seeking to enforce the law.”. By Kelly Nokes. Sierra Club v. BNSF Railway Co., Sierra Club v.
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