Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. It’s proven to be one of the most successful of America’s bedrock federal environmental statutes. Environmental Protection Agency.). (credit: Amazon). Download as PDF.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
Paris, like many coastal cities in the US such as San Francisco, has a combined sewer system where after heavy rain events, pipes get overwhelmed and raw sewage can flow into nearby waters. EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.
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Inside Climate News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Some upstream users are racing to divert more water from the declining river, a choice that a judge wrote in a recent court ruling is “perplexing” and risks forcing cutbacks for users in the future. By Wyatt Myskow A federal district court judge ruled last week that the U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
She holds a PhD in environmental health engineering from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was a policy fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and has also worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
National Law Center
AUGUST 4, 2022
An important component of many environmental statutes is the ability for private citizens to initiate lawsuits to enforce the statute. The post Clean Water Act Citizen Suits Before Fourth Circuit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.
Vermont Law
APRIL 23, 2025
Supreme Court Narrowly Construes Permitting Program Under the Clean Water Act, Limiting EPAs Authority By Stuart Silverman On March 4, 2025, in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency (City and County of San Francisco), the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the U.
Environmental News Bits
JULY 29, 2021
What GAO Found Since 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has modified one of its three national initiatives emphasizing compliance with the Clean Water Act and has discontinued two others (see fig.). Download the document.
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