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The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Legal Planet

Clean Water Act. This law has done a good job at cleaning up municipal and industrial water pollution. Comprehensive Emergency Response and Cleanup Act (CERCLA ). Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. Other substances are more dangerous but the number of people exposed is much smaller.

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Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

The Energy Law Blog

The Ninth Circuit found EPA’s rule, which was a codification of a recent exemption added to the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), to be an impermissible interpretation of the Act. 06-73217 (9th Cir.

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