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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The DEP and USGS report published the findings of a 2019 survey studying the prevalence and distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) across surface waters in Pennsylvania.

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MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” One case Sen.

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Acoel

MARCH 28, 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that the United States Forest Service is going to work with EPA to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage under the Federal Clean Water Act authorizing it to continue fighting forest fires from the air.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. In 2019, Ohio launched H2Ohio, a $172 million multi-year project to bring algal blooms under control by encouraging farmers to adopt voluntary pollution reduction management practices on 1.6

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AUGUST 31, 2021

District Court for the District of Arizona vacated a 2020 rulemaking that had pared back protections to certain bodies of water (see attached August 30, 2021 Opinion ). The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“Because that widespread use has come into contact with the natural environment for decades, PFAS chemicals have been detected in groundwater and surface water in various parts of the world, including rivers in Southwest Pennsylvania and water from some Pennsylvania public water supplies.” In December 2019, Gov.

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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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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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MAY 10, 2021

MDE has adopted this approach to satisfy, in part, the State’s obligations to comply with the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load for nutrients and solids under the federal Clean Water Act. In 2019, we noted on this blog the Maryland Court of Appeals’ decision in Md. 2019), cert. Term 2019 (Md.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

1:18-md-02824-WJ, 2019 WL 1282997, at *2-4 (D. 20, 2019) (slip opn.). Read More » Tags: Arranger Liability , Case Update , CERCLA , Clean Water Act , Colorado , Consultant Liability , New Mexico , Public Lands , Response Action Contractors , Superfund , Tribal Lands , Utah , Water.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Dakota Finance LLC decision from the Fourth Circuit, the Court concluded in a split decision that a South Carolina enforcement action was insufficient to preclude a citizens suit commenced pursuant to Clean Water Act § 505(a)(1), notwithstanding the provisions of Clean Water Act § 309(g)(6)(A)(ii).

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since 2019-20, thousands of Pennsylvania drivers have voluntarily donated $3 when renewing their driver’s license or vehicle registration online. We also acknowledge the pivotal role CBF played in getting the Keystone Tree Restricted Account passed by the legislature and signed into law three years ago. Read more here.]

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Iowa Supreme Court’s more recent brush with agricultural pollution of the Raccoon River arose out of a complaint filed in state court in 2019 by two public interest groups against the state of Iowa and the Iowa agencies and officials responsible for administering the state’s environmental and agricultural programs.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The proposal is in response to a discussion DEP has been having with the General Assembly since 2019 over clarifying spill notification requirements and who gets to decide when DEP is notified. DEP is required by the federal Clean Water Act to submit a report to the U.S. Read more here.] Click Here for DEP’s presentation.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Efforts to protect public health and the environment from PFAS have been hampered by major gaps in both federal and state law and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unwillingness to act. for PFAS in February 2019 despite having strong evidence linking PFAS exposure to adverse health impacts for almost. Action Plan. ”

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe. By Michael B. We know that, mostly as a result of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe.

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APRIL 19, 2019

The Clean Water Act (CWA) and grant programs contained in the Farm Bill are the primary federal mechanisms for curbing agricultural water pollution. However, these structures have not sufficiently addressed agriculture’s impact on the nation’s water resources. MARY JANE ANGELO AND JAMES F. appeared first on.

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JULY 12, 2021

But in the face of coalitions challenging the first 10 evaluations, EPA seems to have taken a step back, stating its deference “resulted in a failure to consistently and comprehensively address potential exposures to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations.”

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 6, 2020

On December 23, 2019, the UNC Policy Collaboratory released a legislatively mandated report on nutrient pollution in Jordan Lake. The short version: A three year, multi-million dollar study has confirmed the science and policy underlying the 2009 Jordan Lake water quality rules. January 6, 2020. Background. That isn’t broken.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. billion in farm sales in 2019. Toxic Water, Toxic Crops. It did not get very far. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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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. In March, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state Legislature negotiated and passed a $4.7

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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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JULY 16, 2019

The July 2019 notice asserts that CERCLA confers significant discretion on the agency. EPA’s decision to forego financial requirements will likely face opposition by eNGOs. By Claudia M. O’Brien and Stacey L. VanBelleghem. What’s Next?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Formosa Plastics’ Pollution of Texas Waterways Hit by Civil Trial, Protests Center for Biological Diversity | March 25, 2019 Fishermen, community leaders and activists spoke out against Formosa Plastics’ pollution of Texas waterways today as a federal civil trial of the company began here. James Parish air David J.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The JBS meat grinder in Brazil: 7 work accidents a day Marcos Hermanson Pomar | O Joio e o Trigo | December 12, 2020 Com receita líquida global de R$ 204 bilhões em 2019, a empresa goiana JBS – fundada em 1953, na cidade de Anápolis – é a quarta maior empresa do ramo de alimentos no planeta. arm of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA JBSS3.SA

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The JBS meat grinder in Brazil: 7 work accidents a day Marcos Hermanson Pomar | O Joio e o Trigo | December 12, 2020 Com receita líquida global de R$ 204 bilhões em 2019, a empresa goiana JBS – fundada em 1953, na cidade de Anápolis – é a quarta maior empresa do ramo de alimentos no planeta. arm of Brazilian meatpacking giant JBS SA JBSS3.SA

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

In June, 2021, DEP released final sampling results collected from public water systems which do not indicate widespread PFAS contamination in those systems. Read more here.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. Those “other” sources of authority could include federal Clean Water Act permits issued to local governments for municipal stormwater discharges and local government power under state law to regulate land use. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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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. In the Great Lakes region, harmful blooms are endemic.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Clean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet – Associated Press. In this issue: Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. McArthur Graduate Student Policy Award.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

NSF: The annual 2020 Survey of Earned Doctorates , compiled by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, finds that the number of doctorate recipients in the life sciences decreased slightly from 12,753 in 2019 to 12,561 in 2020. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Bay Journal: Pennsylvania Counties Take The Lead In Water Quality Cleanup Plans [PaEN] -- Environmental Groups Submit Rulemaking Petitions To Environmental Quality Board Asking For Full-Cost (..)

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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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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

For example: Ontario undermined Ontario’s Endangered Species Act protections in 2019 with Bill 108, which empowered the Minister broad and reckless exemptions to let developers destroy endangered species and their habitat, delay extending any protection at all for species that desperately need it, and even “pay to slay” endangered species.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In 2019 the company applied its product to end a harmful bloom on Chippewa Lake in Ohio. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Peroxide is the active ingredient. Early results have indicated promising success.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v.

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