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The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Legal Planet

NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today. Clean Air Act. Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).

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How the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Benefits Big Oil and Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., However, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority saw this as an opportunity to dismantle the doctrine altogether. Understanding the Chevron Doctrine The Chevron doctrine, established in the 1984 Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., This deference allowed agencies (e.g.,

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Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference At Lehigh University On March 14

PA Environment Daily

The conference serves as a forum that brings together community watershed organizations, municipal officials, educators, students, scientists, technical experts, natural resource agency staff, industry representatives, and the public to discuss effective ways to improve and protect land and water resources throughout the greater Lehigh Valley.

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DEP Chesapeake Bay Healthy Waters Newsletter Highlights Nearly 16,700 BMPs In 2024; Grant Opportunities; County Clean Water Projects

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania conservationists are focused on restoring the health of small, local streams that are on the federal Clean Water Acts impaired waters list. They recognized and celebrated Pennsylvanias efforts to delist streams at a rapid pace. Million to Address Largest Inventory of Abandoned Mines in the Nation -- U.S.

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Water, Water Everywhere Nowhere, And Not a Drop To Drink

Acoel

Early in my career, I was involved in a natural resource damages case seeking to establish the monetary value of an impacted drinking water aquifer. An environmental economist took the stand for the defense and began to describe why the resource had little economic value. It is time for a fresh look at water policy.

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DEP, DCNR, Agriculture, Fish Commission, Local Partners Celebrate Turtle Creek Watershed Stream Restoration, Investments, Water Quality Improvements

PA Environment Daily

On April 25, four state agencies, legislators and two land conservancies celebrated portions of the Turtle Creek watershed in southeastern Union County being removed, or “delisted” from the federal Clean Water Act impaired waters list. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Sen. Scott Martin (R-Lancaster), the U.S.

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Federal Water Tap, October 18: Agencies Call Attention To Cyber Threats Against Water Utilities

Circle of Blue

Listed as endangered in 1967, the humpback chub has many obstacles to survival: dams that cut off habitat and alter river flows, warming waters, and non-native predators. FWS officials think that conservation efforts have reduced immediate dangers to the humpback chub. Non-native predator fish have been targeted for removal.