PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ).

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JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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PA Environment Daily

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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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The two Smiths stand as a testament to the fact that advocating for water free of toxic algae is now a multigenerational issue. The Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution. Likewise, the slow-moving administrative state has stymied local activists again and again.

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Acoel

JULY 12, 2021

In reopening, EPA will remove an assumption that workers are provided and use personal protective equipment (PPE), which could expand risk management regulation to several chemical uses previously found not to present an “unreasonable risk” with the mitigating effect of PPE.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

On January 14, the Environmental Quality Board published final regulations to protect Pennsylvanians’ drinking water from PFAS chemicals by setting new limits on two forms of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the first drinking water maximum contaminant level developed by the DEP. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

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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Vermont Law

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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Circle of Blue

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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. The EPA is again in the middle of a six-year review of drinking water regulations.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

The case involved an Idaho couple who wanted to develop over a wetland on their property near a lake; all nine justices on the high court concurred that the EPA went too far in regulating the particular wetland on the couple’s property. The high court has set the stage for the United States to lose tens of millions of acres more.

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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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ESA

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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Ohio Environmental Law

APRIL 23, 2020

Supreme Court issued a major ruling interpreting the breadth and scope of the Clean Water Act in County of Maui v. A source of ongoing debate over the scope of the Clean Water Act has been to what extent does the statute regulate discharges when they come into contact with groundwater?

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Under the NWPR intermittent streams must flow “continuously during certain times of the year…” Therefore, not all intermittent streams are protected under the Clean Water Act. A large portion of these streams are no longer protected under the Clean Water Act. This is not entirely clear.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 20, 2021

Of note, Section 10 states that “All waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide (tidal action) are navigable waters of the US”. Navigable waters are identified in the Clean Water Act as “the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas.”

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The Energy Law Blog

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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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility. 64 MAP 2019 (Pa. Comm’n , 83 A.3d

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. . Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. EPA says state agencies’ regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents – Nola.com. In this issue: Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. Responses are due by 11:59 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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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. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said.

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MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, the court dismissed almost all of the companies’ claims, except for a single defamation claim and a related claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law arising from allegations related to a single set of statements.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A federal judge overturns the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act definition. Bureau of Reclamation contributes $19 million for a Colorado River water conservation program. from 2017 through 2019 for illnesses related to harmful algal blooms. Before the EPA could act, a federal judge stepped in.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. A 2019 study in the journal of Marine and Freshwater Research found that the world’s wetlands deliver $47 trillion a year in ecosystem services.

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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. Part two is about regulations.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. The state issued its first water quality standards for chloride in 2019. Michigan has been slow to react to the salinization of its fresh water.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Table of Contents. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

The New York Times reported in 2019 that former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt killed a study by U.S. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. These insecticides are all neonicotinoids.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming. EPA Requested Continuation of Abeyance in Case Challenging Repeal of Oil and Gas Sector Regulations.

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