Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. local governments that enforce requirements exceeding those in state law, including requirements for inspection and maintenance of stormwater systems; and 2.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Government officials were uninterested; as a result, the. In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. in Animal Law at Lewis and Clark Law School (2015). Chesapeake Bay Foundation. summa cum laude.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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MAY 3, 2022

The report criticizes global governance and financing systems for not funding work that is key to building resilience to natural hazards. The Southern Nevada Water Authority, the regional water supplier, built an intake at the bottom of the reservoir. It was completed in 2015, and cost $817 million. In March, Gov.

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Acoel

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2022, the on-going debate will continue over the hotly contested definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), a phrase that determines the scope of federal jurisdiction over streams, wetlands and other waterbodies under the Clean Water Act (CWA). United States ) that occurred in the early 2000s.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Formosa Unit Offers $500 Million for Causing Toxic Disaster in Vietnam VOA | June 30, 2016 One of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Vietnam was caused by a unit of a Taiwanese conglomerate leaking toxic waste into the sea, the Hanoi government said Thursday, ending months of mystery and rare public outrage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making its implementation eligible for federal funding through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. Monitoring where Loveville Creek flows into Halfmoon Creek has been happening since 2015 for an undergraduate class that Dr. Heather Preisendanz teaches at Penn State University.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In the 21 st century, it is common for countries to have laws in place to protect monuments, sites, and landscapes of cultural or historical importance and government-established charities or government departments assigned to their management, upkeep or conservation. Conservation Genetics. Wildlife Management.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

Last week the Environmental Protect Agency and Department of the Army announced the agencies’ intent to initiate new rulemaking that restores the Obama era waters of the United States rule that was in place pre-2015, and before the current Trump era rule.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If That’s a sizable increase from 2015, when the two counties’ CAFOs spread 170 million gallons and almost 93,000 tons on roughly the same amount of farmland. .

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Then came the “Navigable Waters Protection Rule” (NWPR) and the shrunken definition of “waters of the US” (WOTUS). There was considerable speculation about what impact this new rule would have on the scope of the Clean Water Act. Turns out the answer is: Far more than expected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us. In response, 27 states sued , and the rule was put on hold.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as with climate change, local, state, provincial, and national governments in Canada and the United States have collaborated with science agencies, universities, and non-profit groups to develop effective responses, especially for Lake Erie. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Two of the projects are in Mercer County, which has undertaken one of the most aggressive local government campaigns in the country to battle harmful algal blooms. Ohio is investing $91.7

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

The EPA offers grant funding to research public acceptance of recycled water. The EPA also prepares to strengthen pollution limits for coal-fired power plants and outlines its plan for defining waterways protected by the Clean Water Act. First, reinstate the pre-2015 rules. Coal Power Plant Water Pollution.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. Waters of the United States.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The EPA proposes reinstating the Clean Water Act definition that existed before 2015. Two federal agencies sign an order affirming their duty to protect the interests of Native American tribes in land and water management. And lastly, the CDC investigates cases of liver disease linked to bottled water. “As

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 2, 2023

The EPA finalizes a new definition of the scope of the Clean Water Act. New data shows the number of households receiving federal water bill assistance rose last summer. The EPA misses its self-imposed, end-of-year deadline for issuing draft drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

The measurements will improve understanding of the lake’s annual water balance, said Katherine Earp, a study co-author. between 2015 and 2019 that were linked to swimming pools, hot tubs, and other treated recreational waters, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Water Bills in Congress.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An Arizona federal court has vacated the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR). CV-20-00266 , the Court ruled that the Trump Administration’s regulatory effort to define the scope of the Clean Water Act (i.e. In the case of Pasqua Yaqui Tribe v. Sections 1311(a), 1367(7) and 1362(12).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

The EPA and Army Corps will take yet another attempt at defining what waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act. Senators propose $10 billion to test for and clean up PFAS contamination at Defense Department sites. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S. government water policy.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? Morton opened the door for environmental groups to sue over government actions, something that Justice Scalia had opposed since his days as a law professor.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. million pounds of benzene that it imported during 2013–2015 as well as large quantities of three other substances. The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2021

The EPA says it will revise Trump-era changes to Clean Water Act permitting that centered on energy infrastructure. Senate Republicans increase water spending in their infrastructure counteroffer. The Bureau of Reclamation cuts Central Valley Project water allocations in California. government water policy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and potential litigants. This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

trillion government spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2023 Dec. 29, keeping the government funded through the end of September 2023 and providing increases to most ecologically relevant science agencies. The EPA announced a new Clean Water Rule in Dec. The rule largely restores the pre-2015 status quo.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. 20 executive order that called for a review of energy and environment-related rules across the federal government.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. EPA : The agency’s Science Advisory Board agreed to review the science underlying the agency’s decision to revert the definition of the Waters of the U.S.

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