2022 Clean Water Act Ocean 
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
Honestly, I was kind of nervous about water quality. Whats the point of a beach adventure if you cant even go into the ocean? In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.
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. million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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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]
The Energy Law
DECEMBER 9, 2021
million in civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, as well as administrative penalties under the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act. The Trustees for this incident include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. 68686, and goes through January 3, 2022.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
September 8, 2022 . TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and this Ohio port city of 275,000. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 23, 2022
HotSpots H2O: In Besieged Ukraine, Water Again a Locus of Conflict – Water has long been a source of geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Plus, Circle of Blue reports on a database that documents the rising number of violent clashes involving water. Yemen forces attacked a Saudi water desalination facility.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. September 15, 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.
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