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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Combined sewer overflows (CSOs), as a discharge of pollutants, are thus subject to NPDES permitting and must comply with the EPAs CSO Control Policy and relevant water quality standards. The NPDES permit for the Oceanside facility, expired in 2014 but had been administratively reissued ever since.

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. And then there’s money to prepare for the possibility of dioxane entering the city’s water supply — another pollutant not subject to drinking water regulations.

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

Vermont 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. When an agency issues an interpretive rule, the agency clarifies or explains how an existing statute or regulation is binding on those already subject to it.

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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

2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. 24, 2014). [8] Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. Footnotes. [1] 14-058 (Or.

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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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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

A study of the causes of the explosion suggested the need for stronger safety regulations. one of most dangerous air pollutants Particulate matter is in the air we breathe pretty much everywhere and is invisible and deadly. It is one of the so-called criteria air pollutants , along with NOx, SOx, carbon monoxide (CO), and lead 5.