The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. There is precedent for TMDLs addressing air emission sources, specifically in relation to atmospheric deposition of mercury.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

By Lauren Dalban Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities, to preventing pollutants from entering the water supply, to breeding grounds for endangered bird species.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. These include the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, the Clean Water Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The resulting study placed this figure at about $65 million: the bloom lopped about $20 million dollars off of tourism, recreation, and the local housing stock, plus $4 million for water treatment. . The Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE has the potential to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which, together with emissions reductions, would help to mitigate climate change. By Romany M.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 million annually to comply with the regulation, but that cost will be offset by preventing $36.4

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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. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Like terrestrial plants, seaweed uptakes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it grows and stores it in biomass. This has led to increased interest in using the oceans which have already absorbed about 30% of human carbon dioxide emissions since the Industrial Revolution. Potentially applicable U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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National Law Center

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Sovereign.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 23, 2022

The report marks the 50 th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark piece of legislation that, according to the report, has thus far failed to meet its intended goals. Additionally, the report categorized 55 percent of lakes, ponds and reservoirs and 25 percent of bays, estuaries, and harbors under the same classification.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2023

“We have to be prepared for this increase in the number of weather events and severe weather events that we’re seeing.” — Deanne Criswell, the administrator of FEMA, speaking with reporters en route to California to view the damage from the series of atmospheric rivers that hit the state this month.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” — Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, speaking to the Sacramento Bee about the cancellation of the state’s salmon fishing season. “People don’t realize how much California’s a salmon state.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The request includes $231 million for NOAA’s climate research programs, a $7 million increase above FY 2023 levels. lands and waters by 2030. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles also noted that the severity of the two-decade-long dry stretch is due, in large part, to the release of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. California, for instance, is having its driest January and February on record, and these are typically two of the state’s wettest months.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The number of earned doctorates awarded is increased in the geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences from 862 degrees in 2010 to 1,243 degrees in 2020. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act. However, longer term trends show that number of doctorates awarded in the life sciences is increasing.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Senate Bill 716 / House Bill 391 prohibit, with very limited exception, a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere or organizing or participating in a “mass balloon release,” as defined. Environmental Standing and Environmental Justice.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 11, 2024

One such strategy, ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), involves adding alkaline substances to seawater so as to increase its ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate ocean acidification. OAE 101 OAE involves adding alkalinity to the ocean, in order to convert CO2 in the water into dissolved inorganic carbon.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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. California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 9, 2021

The fate of the mine now lies with the Georgia Environmental Division after former President Donald Trump changed the rules of the Clean Water Act, ending federal protection for millions of miles of streams, arroyos, and wetlands. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. ON THE RADAR.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

The Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976 has a provision titled “Reciprocity” that provides that foreign vessels may not fish in U.S. waters “unless such nation extends substantially the same fishing privileges to fishing vessels of the United States … as the United States extends to foreign fishing vessels.” (See See 16 U.S.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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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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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The bill funds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research at $776 million, a 20 percent increase. The full Senate voted to confirm Michael Morgan as the assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

The faster the process, the more water is cycled from the warmer surface to the cooler depths. Atmospheric modeling programs have predicted its decline, and now the Atlantics circulation is the lowest in about 1,500 years. After decades of controversy, the project was vetoed by the EPA in 2008 under the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Four regional environmental organizations and the State of California filed lawsuits in federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging the EPA’s determination that the Redwood City Salt Ponds were not within the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act. Democracy Forward Foundation v. 1:19-cv-02751 (D.D.C.,

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Courts Climate lawsuit filed by Hawai’i teens advances in state courts.

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ESA

JULY 12, 2021

Amid competing House and Senate proposals to increase funding levels for the National Science Foundation, the House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 spending bill covering NSF, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The bill includes $9.63 billion for NSF, a 13% increase over last fiscal year.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 Jared Huffman (D-CA), sent a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, expressing their disappointment in the EPA’s January 2022 announcement to restart the Clean Water Act review process for protecting Bristol Bay, Alaska. increase to $9.56

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced the nomination of Jainey Bavishi to be the assistant secretary of oceans and atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-most senior position at NOAA. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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