Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads.

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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. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

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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. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. The prime ones are erosion and flood control, waste treatment, water purification, recreation, and tourism.

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Circle of Blue

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. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water. Regulation Begins.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

to bring its waste treatment and disposal facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. In April 2024, the EPA announced an agreement with MAX that would address the facility’s compliance with state and federal hazardous waste management regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

has agreed to a consent order that includes several actions to ensure compliance with federal and state hazardous waste safeguards at the company’s waste facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County, the U.S. RCRA is the principal federal hazardous waste storage and disposal statute. On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

PennEnvironments Zero Waste Advocate Faran Savitz released the following statement in response to the announcement-- IRG abandoning its plan is great news for both the Erie area and for Lake Erie, an iconic body of water consistently plagued by plastic pollution. Neither is burning plastic waste to make steel.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The EPA Administrator discusses farm issues with state agricultural regulators. And lastly, foreign affairs agencies will update their global water strategy. The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. The Rundown. The Bureau of Reclamation releases five-year projections for lakes Mead and Powell. News Briefs.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

Meet Nature Renaissance Man George Gress; Celebrate Migratory Bird Day May 10 With TNC -- WHYY: Philly DA Launches Cleaner, Greener Enforcement Unit To Target Illegal Dumping, Other Quality-of-Life Crimes -- York Daily Record: Federal Judge Finds Modern Landfill Violated Clean Water Act 419 Times In York County -- WITF/StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: (..)

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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. EGLE has not compiled records for manifested waste for 2015.

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MGKF Law

AUGUST 30, 2022

In order to bring a citizen suit in federal district court under the Clean Water Act, 33 USC § 1365(a)(1), the plaintiff must first give “notice of the alleged violation” to the alleged violator, the EPA, and the State at least 60 days prior to commencing suit. In Shark River Cleanup Coalition v. §135.3(a).

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Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2022

Federal nuclear regulators intend to issue a license for an interim nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico. Nuclear Waste Storage in New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Agency intends to issue a license to Holtec International to build and operate a nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico.

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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. Inevitably, municipal solid waste collection fails to capure all trash. Wind blows waste out of landfills. Clean Water Act. ,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2023

Capitol -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Looks To Bring Tavern ‘Skill Games’ Under Gambling Regulation Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Read the full story at Waste Dive. EPA is pushing to dismiss a lawsuit that would compel the agency to identify and regulate several “forever chemicals” in sewage sludge under its Clean Water Act authority, per a filing from the federal case last week.

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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. I have stayed out of the SCOTUS prediction game because I find such speculation to be a waste of time.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But if Justice declined to act, the two intrepid canoers were positioned to make a political statement as well. Some history: Congress passed annual Rivers and Harbors Acts in the late 19th century, to make appropriations to the Corps of Engineers, to regulate construction in navigable waters, and to protect navigable channels.

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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. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) share responsibility for implementing the Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. These expenses trickle down into residents’ water bills. The two Smiths stand as a testament to the fact that advocating for water free of toxic algae is now a multigenerational issue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service regulations implementing the federal Endangered Species Act, evolving protections for the tricolored bat and northern long-eared bat, and potential policy implications of the 2024 election. Samuel Boden is an associate in the environment, land, and natural resources group in the Harrisburg office.

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

The bill further requires EPA to list PFOA and PFOS as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the Clean Air Act and establish pretreatment standards and effluent limits for the compounds under the Clean Water Act. Other measures in the bill limit industrial discharges of PFAS and restrict incineration of PFAS waste.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners. million homes over the next decade in Ontario, also changes environmental protections and regulations required for development plans.

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The Energy Law

MAY 17, 2011

Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 27, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. 715 (2006).

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Infrastructure-related challenges require solutions that address a variety of environmental concerns, including wetlands permitting, mitigation and mitigation availability, solid-waste treatment and disposal, and other related issues. Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

by Zachary Haslick History of Lake Erie pollution In the 1960s, Lake Erie suffered from extreme pollution due to industrial waste and sewage runoff, and parts of the lake were declared dead. The water quality was so bad that there were incidents where tributary rivers that empty into Lake Erie caught fire.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Restoring Assets It has only been one generation since waterways across the state were contaminated with industrial waste, chemicals, and other pollutants to the point that rivers were on fire and devoid of aquatic life.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5239 ) -- Waste Management Renewable Energy, LLC - Landfill Gas Project: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for the facility in Falls Twp., PA Bulletin, page 5239 ) -- Waste Management Renewable Energy, LLC - Landfill Gas Project: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for the facility in Falls Twp., Forest County. (

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

18 Winter Feeding Pasture Walk In Newville, Cumberland County DEP: Temporary Repair To Sewage Pipeline Stops Sewage Release Into Penns Creek, Susquehanna River In Snyder County EPA Issues Consent Order To Max Environmental Technologies For Clean Water Act Violations At Yukon, Westmoreland County Facility; Virtual Listening Session Set For Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 11, the Environmental Quality Board will consider DEP’s report on a rulemaking petition to raise the well plugging bonding amounts for conventional oil and gas wells, proposed changes to state water quality criteria and other regulations. Likewise, the EQB may not adopt regulations that are not supported by statute.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. 2015-011-L ).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

Likewise, the EQB may not adopt regulations that are not supported by statute.” Site-Specific Methylmercury Standard The EQB adopted the proposed rulemaking changing the site-specific water quality standard for methylmercury in Ebaughs Creek in York County from 0.05 Click Here for DEP’s report on the petition.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Million -- The Allegheny Front: ‘We Do Have Questions To Answer’ About Single-Use Plastic Waste, Shell Internal Emails Reveal -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Harmed By Erie Coke (Coal) Plant?

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Smith Enviorment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Challenges to the “Narrative Standard” for Toxic Water Pollutants. An existing water quality rule, 15A NCAC 2H.0208, An existing water quality rule, 15A NCAC 2H.0208, Reasonably necessary to implement or interpret an enactment of the General Assembly, or of Congress, or a regulation of a federal agency…and 4.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. Facts about the environment differ depending where you get your information, but they are fascinating, and hopefully I got these right (US): 350 Billion gallons of water daily, 7% of all precipitation. 7% to homes of 258 Million people through 160,000 public water supplies, 40% to agriculture.

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