2018 Clean Water Act Environmental Science 
Vermont Law
APRIL 19, 2019
Four non-profit environmental groups (Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation, and West Maui Preservation Association) brought a suit against the County of Maui, alleging that the county violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) because they did not have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
Environment, Law, and History
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969.
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Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Useful Environmental Law Terms. 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. Sponsored Content.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. Most sciences are about looking for answers to problems within the data generated and devising tests to solve them. Sponsored Content. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy. Conservationism is slightly different.
ESA
OCTOBER 11, 2022
EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. In this issue: Supreme Court Hears Sackett v. Congress passes a deal to keep the government funded through Dec.
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).
ESA
AUGUST 16, 2021
The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 This division s responsible for criminal and civil cases to enforce environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. World leaders agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit to warming to 1.5
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