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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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!

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Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud

PA Environment Daily

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water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. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

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

Vermont Law

On March 12, 2014, the Honorable John C. 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.”. Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. Sierra Club v.

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Blurred Lines: The Importance of Delineation Between Legislative and Non-legislative Rules Under the APA

Vermont Law

. : Not all agency rules have the force of law. In March of 2014, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers issued an “interpretive rule” regarding section 404 of the Clean Water Act, circumventing a notice and comment period. Agricultural Conservation Flexibility Act of 2014.”. Vermont Journal of Environment Law.

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Incentivizing Ecosystem Services: Agroecology as a Solution to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Vermont Law

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.

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Michigan’s Updated PURPA Implementation Could Create a New Market for Privately-owned Solar Energy Facilities

Columbia Climate Law

Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law. Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. 24, 2014). [8] Follow Jeffrey on twitter at @jt_hammons. Footnotes. [1]