Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. Early efforts primarily focused on land-based approaches, but interest in ocean-based approaches, also known as marine CDR, has grown in recent years. ocean waters. As the report released today shows, a number of U.S.

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Vorys Law

MAY 25, 2023

In a highly anticipated opinion, the United States Supreme Court narrowed the scope of waters and wetlands considered to be "waters of the United States" ("WOTUS") and, therefore, subject to jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. In Sackett v. 2023) ( citing Rapanos v.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a memorandum providing States with guidance on how to address ocean acidification in their Clean Water Act 303(d) impairment listings. The EPA memo only addresses ocean acidification from a 303(d) list perspective and does not modify EPA’s Recommended Marine pH Criteria.

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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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Vermont Law

JANUARY 26, 2015

Trash that is lost, littered, blown, or washed into the ocean is an issue of growing environmental concern. 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. in the ocean, where it.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When we think about plastic pollution, we often think about where plastic products—from water bottles to microplastics—end up. But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean. The court held that the county had violated the CWA by indirectly discharging into the ocean without a NPDES permit. Wells are among the CWA’s list of point source examples. County of Maui.

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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. This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE seeks to counteract ocean acidification, while also increasing carbon storage in the oceans. By Romany M. Webb and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

715 (2006), which interpreted covered “waters” in the CWA to include “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water forming geographical features that are described in ordinary parlance as streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes.” United States , 547 U.S.

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The Energy Law

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs in these cases also challenge the adequacy of the agencies’ assessments under NEPA and the ESA, as well as under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

These structures, approximately 30-foot-tall trees, will be placed along shorelines to provide habitat and areas of cooler, shaded water for fish, birds, and other wildlife. This legacy is why the Milwaukee estuary has been listed on the EPA’s Great Lakes Areas of Concern list.

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Acoel

JULY 29, 2021

In Maui , the Supreme Court held that an NPDES permit is required when pollutants originating from a point source are conveyed into a navigable water through groundwater in a manner that constitutes the functional equivalent of a direct discharge to the navigable water.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Newton writes that Spezio explores the relationships between oil pollution and political changes in the 1970s and asks how the Santa Barbara oil spill became a watershed moment in the history of environmental and science policy in the US, especially in regard to the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA).

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Take for instance: the burning Cuyahoga River that led to the Clean Water Act; the disastrous air pollution incident in Donora, PA that led to the passage of the Clean Air Act; the discovery of Love Canal that lead to the passage of Superfund; and most tragically, the chemical gas release in Bhopal, India that lead to the passage of EPCRA.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million in civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, as well as administrative penalties under the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act. The Trustees for this incident include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

His appeal is focused on the effect of the Vineyard Wind project on right whales, ignoring the effect of our warming oceans on these critically endangered species. Now this particular NIMBY has asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to revive his lawsuit.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 2, 2022

Use the EPA’s site How’s my Waterway to discover your watershed and learn more about where your water may end up. . Plastic water bottles create an enormous amount of litter — 18 billion pounds of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year with devastating results on wildlife. Brian Yurasits/Unsplash. Reduce plastic waste.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

that have resulted in displays being cancelled) for embers that fall into the ocean, under some Clean Water Act theory, but apparently that overreaching idea has not be replicated elsewhere. But, San Diego does regulate fireworks for locations near the coast, requiring expensive permits (.

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National Law Center

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. Judicial: Sovereign.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Equal access to clean air and water are major portions of the sustainability equation. Here I am, in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, six blocks from the Pacific Ocean, being warned about air quality by a man that has obviously had a rough journey.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That should change now that the Department of Justice (DOJ), acting jointly on behalf of EPA and BSEE, has announced its settlement with ATP Infrastructure Partners (ATP-IP) in the first joint judicial enforcement action resolving alleged violations of both the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. Once Cleared Harmful Blooms. did it once before. .

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. A Weakened National Imperative. Both the bi-national agreement and the U.S.

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JULY 26, 2022

Eventually it ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Some of it will end up in the Pacific Ocean. Heavily contaminated water samples collected from the L.A. Roberto cracks open a wild-caught oyster from the Pacific Ocean. When the river is low, Roberto likes to workout close to the water and do push-ups and dips.

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MARCH 23, 2022

The report marks the 50 th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark piece of legislation that, according to the report, has thus far failed to meet its intended goals. Additionally, the report categorized 55 percent of lakes, ponds and reservoirs and 25 percent of bays, estuaries, and harbors under the same classification.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Army Corps issued a key Clean Water Act permit for a proposed reservoir in northern Colorado that will be located outside of Fort Collins. With a planned capacity of 170,000 acre-feet, Glade reservoir is part of the $2 billion Northern Integrated Supply Project, a municipal water supply project. On the Radar.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Resource Links: -- Attorney General Thornburgh’s Address to the Oceans ‘88 Conference on October 31, 1988 -- Gov. Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water NewsClips: -- Oct. Photos: Gov. Dick Thornburgh and James M. 16 James M.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Today, pellets are found globally throughout the ocean and across diverse ecosystems. Yes, like all plastics in the ocean, nurdles pose a great threat to marine life.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” — Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman, speaking to the Sacramento Bee about the cancellation of the state’s salmon fishing season. People don’t realize how much California’s a salmon state.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2024

Recently, a federal court denied two back-to-back motions by a group called Green Oceans to preliminarily enjoin construction of the 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island. For background, in January 2024, Green Oceans filed a complaint in the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2022

In Recent Water News. In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: As Dust Settles in Tonga After Volcanic Eruption, Drinking Water Now the ‘Biggest Life-Saving Issue’ – Ocean water and volcanic ash have contaminated the drinking water of tens of thousands of people in the Pacific Island nation. On the Radar.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In conjunction with a White House summit, the Biden administration proposed strengthening water quality standards for rivers and lakes in order to preserve the ability of Indian tribes to fish, gather, and use their lands in ceremonies. Its rivers do not flow to the ocean. Federal Water Tap is a weekly digest spotting trends in U.S.

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