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SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Sewage: You Can’t Make This Sh** Up

Union of Concerned Scientists

Honestly, I was kind of nervous about water quality. Whats the point of a beach adventure if you cant even go into the ocean? In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), EPA Supreme Court decision undermining the Clean Water Act and eroding the EPA’s ability to enforce it.

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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

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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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

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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Upstream Action to Protect Our Ocean and Coasts

Ocean Conservancy

As a person immersed in this interior, “fresh coast” worldview, I hadn’t spent much time considering how our practices might affect the ocean thousands of miles away. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. In short, all water is connected. Enter your email and never miss an update.

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The Stream, May 31, 2023: Iran and Taliban Exchange Gunfire, Heightening Water Tension

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In Senegal , water-saving farming methods are producing higher rice yields while improving soil health. Supreme Court narrowed Clean Water Act protections for wetlands that aren’t directly connected to “lakes, oceans, streams, and rivers.” “The The attempt succeeded. from polluters and development.

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The Stream, March 6, 2025: Clean Water Act Weakened Again by U.S. Supreme Court; Running Dry, El Paso Turns Wastewater Into Drinking Water

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In Jakarta, sinking due to groundwater withdrawals and urban growth, lies Lake Pluit, which is below sea level. The EPA held the city broadly responsible for the oceans water quality standards while San Francisco could use the ocean as a dumping ground, it would violate the permit should water quality worsen.

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What’s Up With Water – April 16, 2018

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Water circulation in the Atlantic Ocean has slowed to its weakest recorded level, and global warming is the likely cause thats according to a new study in the journal Nature. It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. The Northern U.S. The pumping project had been promoted for years by U.S.

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