Clean Water Act Environmental Protection Government 
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).
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When we breathe the air or drink the water, we’re taking in any potential contaminants all at once—with effects that can combine or even compound. However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. It’s important to look at the bigger picture.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.
Legal Planet
MAY 30, 2023
EPA limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to defend a large portion of the nation’s wetlands and waterways from pollution. This will make it much harder for the federal government to protect water quality—and surely this is the Court’s goal. Photo by Joe Ravo (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.
Law Columbia
APRIL 10, 2025
A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. Seaweed naturally converts dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water into organic carbon through photosynthesis. Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. for human consumption).
E2 Law Blog
MAY 26, 2023
A few months later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and ordered the couple to restore the site or face penalties of up to $40,000 a day. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. at (slip op.
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