Clean Water Act Government Law 
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. The second feature was a massive infusion of federal funding to state and local governments to upgrade sewage treatment plants across America. (credit: Amazon).
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
On Friday, October 7th, the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at U.C. Davis School of Law will convene a major, day-long conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. Davis School of Law. The event will assess the progress the U.S. Hall, the U.C. The post U.C.
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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. One subject stood outside the political turmoil: environmental law. We cannot accept that conclusion.”
Circle of Blue
MARCH 29, 2022
Welcome to “What’s Up With Water,” your need-to-know news of the world’s water from Circle of Blue. In Thailand, the government cancelled a dredging and blasting project that would have straightened a rocky stretch of the Mekong River to accommodate large cargo ships. waters that are fishable and swimmable. Transcript.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 2, 2025
If that makes you gag, consider that water quality in America has been systematically protected only in about the last 50 years, with the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972. Drinking water specifically received some protections when the Safe Drinking Water Act was signed into law in 1974.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
When the a law is focused on one impact of coal, attempts to take into account other harms can get mired in controversies about considering “co-benefits” and direct versus indirect or cumulative impacts. The existence of these laws is a testament to the environmental harms of the activity. Combustion of fuels is an even bigger problem.
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