Clean Water Act Government Waste 
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).
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . Photographs by J.
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Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. Her finding revealed a major source of phosphorus that drains from farmland and contributed to the harmful algal bloom that shut down Toledo’s drinking water plant for three days the year before. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying.
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. 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 It’s frustrating,” he said. In the case of PFAS alone, a U.S.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2021
oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. 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. Global Water Strategy. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.
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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