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More state and local attention to financing can advance sustainable groundwater management

Legal Planet

In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a law that establishes a statewide framework for advancing the long-term availability of the states groundwater resources. Environmental Protection Agency, Assistance Agreement no. 2021-69012-35916] from the U.S. RD-84046301-0. Download as PDF

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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

the Environmental Protection Agency In the recent Supreme Court case , San Francisco was disputing permit language for its Oceanside wastewater treatment facility, which has an outfall pipe that discharges 4.5 The NPDES permit for the Oceanside facility, expired in 2014 but had been administratively reissued ever since.

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Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

On March 14, the Attorney General opened another investigation into Energy Transfer/Sunoco into potential environmental crimes related to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco pipeline that leaked petroleum into household wells in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here.]

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DEP Issues Abandoned Well Violation To Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well With Nearly Full Storage Tanks, Expired EPA Permit In Venango County

PA Environment Daily

During a routine inspection on November 27, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a violation to Stonehaven Energy MGT Co. The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016.

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DEP Proposes To Delist Currie Landfill Site In Erie County From State Priority List Of Hazardous Sites, Comments Invited

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on the proposed delisting of the Currie Landfill Site in Millcreek Township, Erie County from the state Priority List Of Hazardous Sites. ( On May 4, 2014, the Departments contractor submitted the final report which completed the remedial response activities.

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2021 Election Preview: The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports

Circle of Blue

And it would apply the two-thirds vote retroactively to projects approved since 2014. In approving the transmission line application, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection reduced the width of the corridor from 150 feet to 54 feet along the forested Segment 1, which begins at the Canadian border and ends 53 miles away at The Forks.

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Rising Cost of Water in Michigan Leads to Affordability Problems

Circle of Blue

The community action group Detroit Water Brigade delivered water in August 2014 to city residents whose water had been shut off because of late payments. Environmental Protection Agency when utilities assess the cost of controlling sewage pollution. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Community-level affordability remains a challenge.

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