Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. Washington States waters Washington State has a rich marine ecosystem, and a vibrant commercial and recreational shellfish industry.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

. -- DEP published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin inviting comments on new and revised DEP Water Quality Assessment Methodology for listing and delisting impaired waters under the federal Clean Water Act 2026 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. How stringently facilities are monitored should be based on science and on the impacts on the people who live nearby—not by a judge’s ideological viewpoint on regulation.

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Legal Planet

JULY 2, 2024

If a regulation was upheld in the Chevron era, that decision remains valid statutory precedent. As an example of a statutory delegation of authority, the Court cites a provision in the Clean Water Act, 33 U. would interfere with the attainment or maintenance of that water quality. ” Step 1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. Such a test leaves protection to the mercy of the states. Not the regulators, not the permit applicants, not the scientists….

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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. Cumulative impact assessments look at health, environmental, and social factors (stressors and burdens) to help officials make better environmental decisions.

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Vorys Law

DECEMBER 23, 2024

13, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed draft 2026 Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater Discharges (MSGP). The MSGP is a general permit that regulates stormwater discharges from various industrial facilities. On Friday, Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On September 27, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced it has issued a consent order to Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. to bring its waste treatment and disposal facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act.

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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. EPA case, having to do with regulating air pollution. Taken together, what is the future of environmental regulations? Photo by Joe Ravo (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 25, 2023

The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the nation’s wetlands and waterways, another setback for the agency’s authority to combat pollution.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

On January 17, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced an Administrative Order on Consent with the City of Corry and its municipal authority requiring them to correct federal Clean Water Act permit violations at their wastewater treatment plant. million gallons of wastewater per day to Hare Creek.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversight under the Clean Water Act. The EPA routinely conducts inspections focused on federal laws like Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act compliance. Companies that produce and discharge pollutants are subject to U.S.

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

Read More » Tags: Clean Water Act , Decisions of Note , EPA , Major Questions Doctrine , Navigability , Ninth Circuit , Rapanos , Supreme Court , United States Supreme Court , Wetlands See 88 Fed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

PennVEST funding for water improvement projects originates from a combination of state funds approved by voters, Growing Greener funds, Marcellus Legacy funds from Act 13 drilling impact fees, the federal Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, federal grant awards to PennVEST from the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. Environmental Protection Agency announced. According to EPA, this site is an area with potential environmental justice concerns. According to EPA, this site is an area with potential environmental justice concerns. Read more here. Status of rulemaking.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The justices have been skeptical of agency power in recent years, and heard arguments in a dispute that threatens to further limit the Environmental Protection Agency. Read the full story at Legal Dive.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

Supreme Court has issued a decision significantly limiting federal Clean Water Act regulation of wetlands just as the N.C. General Assembly has been moving legislation to limit state water quality protection for wetlands. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday announced a new rule that could curtail protections from more than 60 percent of protected lands, in response to a May Supreme Court ruling that curtailed which waters are subject to federal Clean Water Act protections.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 28, 2020

where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311(a), 1362(12)(A); see also 33 U.S.C. 1342 (NPDES provisions).

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, a coalition of environmental groups announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a petition to begin the process of promulgating new water quality standards under Section 303(c)(4)(B) of the federal Clean Water Act for the Delaware River estuary.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. EQIP pays for agricultural practices that are not environmentally beneficial,” wrote Michael Happ the report’s author, “or in some cases actively make the environment worse.”. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following the science and the Clean Water Act to develop technology-based pollution limits and studies on wastewater discharges from industrial sources.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2024

The Third Circuit affirmed that the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board has jurisdiction to hear appeals of state permits issued as part of gas pipeline projects. Following the usual protocol for legal appeal of state permitting, the organizations brought their appeal of the permits before the PA Environmental Hearing Board.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” of Bordentown v. [EHB The EHB denied the motion.

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The Energy Law

MAY 17, 2011

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 27, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 25, 2016

August 27, 2015: The federal District Court for the District of North Dakota concludes that jurisdiction is proper in the district courts and enjoins enforcement of the Clean Water Rule in the 13 States that are parties to the lawsuit in front of the court. 15-3799/3822/3853/3877, 803 F.3d 3d 804 (6th Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

She served as Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the US Environmental Protection Agency and has spent much if not most of her career caring for our shared watershed. -- Reba Carruth is on IPC's Board and serves as our Program and Advocacy Committee!

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The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) added language creating a permitting exemption for uncontaminated runoff from Oil and Gas operations.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

The Township of Archipelago, which sits on the shores of Georgian Bay in the Lake Huron watershed, is seeking multinational support in its opposition to Bill 23 , the “More Homes Built Faster Act,” The Narwhal reports. and Canadian mayors and government officials that work to protect waterways.”

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The litigation uncovered internal company records showing that DuPont knew of PFOA’s significant health risks but withheld the information from regulators and the public. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Toxic Substances Control Act. National Defense Authorization Act.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Click Here to sign up for regulator updates. Additional details concerning the search or selection process will be posted on the DRBC website. For more information on programs, initiatives and upcoming events, visit the Delaware River Basin Commission website. Follow DRBC on Twitter. Visit them on YouTube.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , No. The president promptly expressed both disappointment and concern that the government could no longer assure protection of wetlands, and therefore surface water quality. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court restricted federal jurisdiction over filling and altering wetlands.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Click Here for a copy of the draft regulation. 2015-011-L ).

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.

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