PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When neighbors gathered in 2018 to save the defunct Churchill Valley Country Club — located about ten miles from Pittsburgh — and turn it into a dedicated community green space, they had no idea that this effort would eventually evolve into something much bigger. Click Here for more stories like this one. We do have life.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2024

Established in 1988, PennVEST was anticipated to fund $2 billion in clean water infrastructure projects over a 20-year period. billion dollars in clean water infrastructure in Pennsylvanian communities. In fiscal year 2018-2019, the PennVEST Board awarded $376.3 Click Here for a list of projects funded.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To address this challenge—and this incredible opportunity—TNC and Opti , a technology company, began thinking of ways to use new, low-cost “smart” technologies to improve water quality by focusing on stormwater infrastructure. This thinking led to the creation of joint venture between TNC and Opti in 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

The water quality was so bad that there were incidents where tributary rivers that empty into Lake Erie caught fire. These deplorable conditions eventually led to the implementation of the Clean Water Act , which was passed in 1972 and strengthened regulations on industrial waste disposal.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 18, 2023, the EPA published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) regarding incidental discharges from vessels, proposing national performance standards under the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (“VIDA”). The USCG will then have two years to develop and finalize corresponding regulations.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2016

The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St. District Court Judge Richard Haik found CITGO negligent, and, based on the factors in the Clean Water Act, imposed a $6 million civil penalty. Charles refinery. Year in Rev.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Newton writes that Spezio explores the relationships between oil pollution and political changes in the 1970s and asks how the Santa Barbara oil spill became a watershed moment in the history of environmental and science policy in the US, especially in regard to the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

The proposal builds on a successful 2018 RCPP award. The Chesapeake Conservancy and thirteen partners will work with NRCS to accelerate conservation improvements to work toward eventual delisting of the streams. Nutrient reductions will be modeled to facilitate reporting of project outcomes. -- PA Dept. Agriculture Farmland Preservation - $7.85

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The purposes of this workgroup include soliciting feedback on the requirements of the 2018 General Permit and discussing the feasibility of pollutant reduction requirements in future permit terms, including consideration of the meaning of ''maximum extent practicable'' for MS4s, as specified under the Federal Clean Water Act, and the extent to which (..)

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2018, a host of lawsuits wound their way through the courts seeking an answer, including several from localities and states alleging the responsibility of fossil fuel companies.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

Reallocation of state funding appropriated in 2018 to extend water lines in areas with well contamination caused by GenX. In 2018, the legislature allocated $2 million to DEQ’s Division of Water Infrastructure to help local governments extend water lines to properties affected by contamination caused by per?

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Smith Enviorment

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

September 23, 2018. Some of the environmental challenges: Disabled water treatment and wastewater treatment systems. Removal of debris from streams and rivers may require a federal permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Animal waste. Total # Facilities/Lagoons. Structural Damage.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) : Set up by the EPA to determine standards for clean water (part of the Clean Water Act). It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted. 10 Key International Environmental Laws.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,921 pediatric cancer cases in the state between 1999 and 2018, about 100 per year. An investigation by Circle of Blue uncovered compelling evidence for why — agrochemical contamination in Nebraska’s surface, ground, and drinking water. There are others across Nebraska.

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MAY 2, 2022

billion infrastructure package that allocated federal funds that Congress had appropriated in the last two years in the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Already there is evidence that certain Michigan households are breaking under the strain of high water costs. . In March, Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Among its provisions, the legislation will: Require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

9 Percent : Share of polluters that did not meet their Clean Water Act discharge permit this year, according to the EPA. The non-compliance rate dropped by more than half since 2018, exceeding the agency’s goal. By the Numbers. About 46,000 facilities are regulated under such permits. News Briefs.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On October 26, the federal Chesapeake Bay Program announced an estimated 33 percent of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries met water quality standards attainment during the 2017—2019 assessment period. Experts mainly attribute this decline to unusually wet weather in 2018 and 2019.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also, a different set of environmental challenges: drought and drinking water supply; rhinoceros poaching; managing heavily vegetated bush and grassland habitat; and protecting the Cape’s extraordinary biodiversity. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s first rulemaking under Section 108(b), for the Hardrock Mining sector, was not completed until 2018, so minimal precedent exists under Section 108(b). Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision. What’s Next?

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Acoel

MAY 17, 2022

EPA seeking clarification on the agency’s position on bacteria mixing zones and wet weather blending [1] under the Clean Water Act. EPA’s “rule” – imposing secondary treatment requirements on flows within a facility – as exceeding the agency’s legal authority under the Clean Water Act.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St. million to resolve violations under the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Enforcing the Clean Water Act and investing in the pollution-reduction practices that provide clean water and mitigate climate change will be paramount to CBF success going forward.” Falk is a champion for women’s leadership and advancing equity in the conservation movement.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Tom Wolf signed an executive order in 2018 , DEP has been committed to protecting Pennsylvanians from the adverse impacts of PFAS. We are still learning more about these chemicals, and these new MCLs are a step in the right direction,” said DEP Acting Secretary Ramez Ziadeh. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. Once Cleared Harmful Blooms. did it once before. .

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

2018 saw the technical (if not the literal) extinction of the Northern White Rhino when the last male died in an African reserve. There are many such examples of success stories around the world, some of which are listed here. Southern White Rhino. Also, we know that the use of DDT also killed a great many more (30).

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

Pipeline construction often requires a Clean Water Act Sec. 404 permit (for deposition of fill material in rivers, streams and other waters) from the U.S. the Division of Water Resources may be requested to issue a state water quality certification for the project. 404 of the Clean Water Act. .

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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. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act enacted in August, Congress approved $18.05 billion spent in the past five years under the 2018 Farm Bill. That is almost equal to the $18.06

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Legal Planet

JULY 6, 2023

The 2018 farm bill provided $450 million a year for the ACEP program. Also, community participation in the flood insurance program is conditioned on adoption of a floodplain management ordinance, These activities need to be prioritized given that reduced scope of protection under the Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act. North Coast Railroad Authority , which concerned the preemptive effect of the federal Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

But this win was unfortunately short-lived, as the 2018 Farm Bill overturned the courts ruling. There are also legal issues associated with CAFOs, such as the EPA failing to require Clean Water Act (CWA) and Clean Air Act (CAA) permits.

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