Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. The second feature is a massive infusion of federal funding to state and local governments to upgrade sewage treatment plants across America. More on the history of the Clean Water Act here and here.

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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.

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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).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And it left Steglitz irritated that he and his staff have to spend so much energy reacting to chemical threats that compromise Ann Arbor’s drinking water. “It’s The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

The decision strips key environmental protections from the Clean Water Act by narrowly defining which bodies of water can be regulated under the Act, making it the most important water-related case in decades.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The wetlands at issue are separated by a 30-foot road from an unnamed tributary that feeds into a non-navigable creek that feeds into Priest Lake, a navigable but wholly intrastate water body. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA , 598 U.S. at (slip op.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Government Accountability Office says that Congress needs to come up with a permanent solution , since the Yucca Mountain storage site has been taken off the table. Regan also said that the EPA will propose a draft regulation in November that would define the waterbodies that are regulated by the Clean Water Act.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles is a leader in using the federal Clean Water Act tool of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) to mitigate a major contributing source of marine trash: urban stormwater. Clean Water Act. , Using the Clean Water Act tool of. The Clean Water Act requires states to set.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

Both events were remarkable community efforts, with state agencies, businesses, local organizations, and government officials joining in by donating time, services, food and beverages, vests, trash bags, gloves, and the hauling away of litter. Community is more than just the space we live in.

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The Energy Law

JULY 26, 2013

By Greg Johnson and Stephen Wiegand In a July 17, 2013 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a $6 million dollar penalty levied under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) against CITGO Petroleum Corporation (“CITGO”) and remanded the matter to the Western District of Louisiana for further consideration.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And it gives every citizen the authority to bring suit against polluters and government agencies that are doing just that in violation of the public trust. “If The statute outlaws conduct that is “likely to pollute, impair, or destroy” natural resources and the environment.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Supreme Court stripped federal oversight from millions of acres of wetlands long protected under the Clean Water Act. Now, erecting safeguards to ensure those waters are not polluted, drained or filled in by developers falls to the states. Read the full story at Stateline. Earlier this year, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. 1973 was at the crest of the environmental surge that swept the United States half a century ago.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

These include the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, the Clean Water Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. As the report released today shows, a number of U.S. federal laws impose permit and other requirements applicable to marine CDR projects.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

It also raised an important issue about the role of state government in approving federal projects and licenses. Under the Clean Water Act, dam owners need to get certifications from state authorities that the dam will not harm water quality. States can approve, disapprove, or approve with conditions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in the Sackett case, in which the Sacketts are hoping that SCOTUS will finally issue a clear decision narrowing the scope of jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Here’s hoping that the Court rules for the Government without reaching the question of the proper scope of WOTUS.

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MAY 31, 2022

The EPA intends to deny a Clean Water Act permit for a mine development in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Officials sign a Navajo-Utah water rights settlement. The EPA announces an interagency working group for water reuse. Fifteen federal agencies will collaborate to expand the use of recycled water.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The House fails to overturn President Biden’s veto of legislation to reduce Clean Water Act protections. And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. government water policy.

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MAY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters. Amidst drought, farmers in southern Taiwan are being paid not to grow crops as the government reserves water for semiconductor production.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

The state permits provide the basis for the Clean Water Act 401 certification given to the project. Over the years the scales have been tipped more and more in favor of the pipelines and the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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. Accordingly, EPA is determining, pursuant to [Clean Water Act (CWA)] Section 303(c)(4)(B) and 40 CFR 131.22(b),

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JUNE 7, 2021

After a court ruling and at the EPA’s request, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended the mine’s Clean Water Act Section 404 permit in March. Now that the EPA has said that the mine may affect downstream waters, the Army Corps’ permit could be reviewed. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.

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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. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other words, it was only then that we could in terms of “environmental law” rather than distinct bodies of rules governing a scattering of different situations. The 1960s were also Congress’s first forays into issues like air and water pollution, wilderness protection, and the endangered species. City of Detroit.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Now that the Act has been signed into law, Senate Democrats are making good on their promise but, as might be expected, not all parties are supportive. The reforms (and funding necessary to effectuate them) are proposed to be included as part of a Continuing Resolution that must be passed to prevent a government shutdown beginning October 1.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

EPA, is designed to provide a high-level overview of the Clean Water Act Section (CWA) 319 Nonpoint Source (NPS) program for State and Territory NPS Programs. This training module, developed by U.S.

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Cresforum

JULY 7, 2023

The discussion touched on the challenges that exist for developers and the opportunities for improvement throughout various statutes, like the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, as well as at implementing agencies and the courts.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

typically have primary authority over near-shore ocean waters and the underlying submerged land (i.e., Two key federal laws are especially relevant to OAE projects: (1) the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and (2) the Clean Water Act (CWA). Each law targets a specific environmental issue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million in Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program Projects Eligible applicants include county or municipal governments; county conservation districts; councils of government; municipal authorities; and nonprofit organizations. DEP's Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation has a total of $103.4

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between the discriminatory practice of redlining, which made African-American neighborhoods like Junction ineligible for government-backed mortgage loans through the 1960s, its fair share of white flight, and its industrial workforce in steady decline since the 1970s, money has been fleeing the city for much of the 20th century. .

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

The Maryland Department of the Environment has for many years sought to meet its obligations under the Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load in part by imposing obligations on municipal separate storm sewers (MS4s) beyond the statutory minimum imposition of control to the “maximum extent practicable” or “MEP.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2024

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) introduced Senate Bill 1216 to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for natural gas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. Note: On May 29, on behalf of the shale gas industry, Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2024

An overview will be given on the water quality standards and water temperature criteria established under the federal Clean Water Act to assure the protection and propagation of a “balanced”, “indigenous” population (BIP) or community (BIC) of shellfish, fish, and wildlife in and on the receiving water body.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Tad's practice focuses on the environmental aspects of project development, transactional, litigation, and government enforcement matters (both civil and criminal). Tad Macfarlan is an experienced environmental and land use lawyer and a partner in the firm's global Environment, Land, and Natural Resources practice group.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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