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Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Union of Concerned Scientists

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! When do we want it? After Public Comment!” It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.

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Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken

Law and Environment

It also ignored a court order from 2017 requiring EPA to prepare the required determination and redo cyantraniliprole’s registration. The Clean Water Act – It’s routine for EPA to take more than 10 years to act on NPDES permit renewals. In fact, EPA did not only ignore the clear statutory requirement.

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Stroud Water Research Center UpStream: Student Stewardship; Stream Restoration Investments; World Environmental Ed Congress; Starting A Watershed Organization; World Water Day March 22; More!

PA Environment Daily

Student Stewardship The Montgomery School, a private school in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, has been the site of an EnviroDIY Monitoring Station along Pickering Creek since 2017. Click Here to learn how they did it.

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Farms in Six Southeast Michigan Counties Are Major Sources of Lake Erie Toxic Blooms

Circle of Blue

Department of Agriculture 2017 Census and U.S. Department of Agriculture Publications and National Center for Water Quality, Heidelberg University. The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. The growth has been exponential.

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From Trees To Teaching, Master Watershed Steward Cindy Pizziketti Makes A Difference In York County; Sign Up Now For Master Steward Spring Training

PA Environment Daily

This led to the idea of removing 50,000 pounds of trash for the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act in 2022. Since joining the Master Watershed Steward program in 2017, Pizziketti has volunteered more than 2,400 hours, the highest in York County.

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CAFOs: Harming People Now, Later, and Forever

Vermont Law

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. CAFOs dominate agriculture in the United States: in 2017, an estimated 99% of all meat sold in the U.S. EPA in 2017. Then, the D.C.

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NRDC: Regulation Is Too Weak For Radioactive Oil And Gas Drilling Wastewater, Other Waste

PA Environment Daily

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. Rules to protect workers, including truck drivers, also have significant gaps.

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