PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2025

Moving forward, EPA is working to set technology-based limits on discharges from several industrial categoriesincluding PFAS manufacturers, electro- and chrome-platers and landfillsunder the agencys Effluent Limitations Guidelines program. and Appendix A.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Shapiro Has Let Residents Down On Shale Gas Fracking Protections -- 7 Years Ago, People From Over 70 Households Gave First-Hand Accounts Of How The PA Shale Gas Industry Impacted Their Health, Lives And Communities To A State Grand Jury Describing The Sometimes Harsh Reality Of These Operations [PaEN] -- Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2025

Almost every one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, enacted since 1970, is under attack: Coal-fired power plants are being allowed to increase emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants, a rewrite of a Clean Air Act provision in place since 1990. Toxic waste dumps closed and were cleaned up.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 29, 2025

The state has long been the nation’s pioneer in establishing protections for public health and against climate change — from the first vehicle exhaust regulations , to the prototype for the federal Clean Water Act , to ambitious carbon neutrality goals. The consequences of the shortcut would be devastating.

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

CFIUS also closely reviews investments in critical technologies. These technologies are created or used by certain U.S. Transactions that may pose a risk to the national security, for example, are investments and acquisitions of critical infrastructure, such as transportation, telecommunication, public health, and energy.

2013

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. But 50 years after its creation, the Clean Water Act has proven substantially less effective in other areas. (credit: Amazon). Download as PDF.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On September 27, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced it has issued a consent order to Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. to bring its waste treatment and disposal facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act. Click Here to access the virtual meeting link.

Clean Water Act

Arnold Porter

JANUARY 20, 2023

Arnold & Porter’s Environmental Practice Group is pleased to announce that the American Bar Association has published Clean Water Act Essentials. The four authors each brought extensive expertise and practical experience on the Clean Water Act (CWA) to the project.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

The ambiguity in statutes is often intentional, acknowledging that Congress isn’t equipped to design prescriptive policies across the whole suite of issues before them—let alone in a way that can evolve as science and technology evolve over time. This intentional ambiguity enables expertise to shape rulemaking as needed.

Regulations

Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday. The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. More on the history of the Clean Water Act here and here.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. MAX conducts waste operations under permits issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation Recovery Act. Environmental Protection Agency announced.

Waste

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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 The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste.

Toxic Substances Control Act

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. It is unclear how these developments may affect, if at all, future EPA Ocean Discharge Criteria evaluations under Section 403 of the Clean Water Act.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By definition, at some point that’s going to involve innovation – the adoption and diffusion new technologies and management practices, or, more simply, doing things differently than the tried and true. NPDES permitting under the Clean Water Act is not intended to support innovation. Only there aren’t even any roads yet.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

MARCH 30, 2020

Since Congress enacted the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act), federal circuit courts have contemplated the issue of whether groundwater pollution falls under the “navigable water” provision of the Clean Water Act’s (CWA)—albeit without tenable guidance. Sierra Club v.

Clean Water Act

Cresforum

JULY 7, 2023

The discussion touched on the challenges that exist for developers and the opportunities for improvement throughout various statutes, like the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, as well as at implementing agencies and the courts.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They disproportionately impact people that financially are at the bottom of society,” said Sinha, senior vice president of the research group Environmental Consulting & Technology. . The Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution.

2014

Acoel

AUGUST 2, 2021

We must take a fresh look at water rights (understanding that in most western states they are real property rights and any reallocation would come through compensation and cooperation), water banking, water metering, watershed protection, development of water resources and technologies, Clean Water Act objectives, and aquifer preservation measures.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2022

On water impacts: because there are no federally regulated waters or wetlands in the area, Holtec will not need Clean Water Act permits. The NRC and BLM concluded that any effects from construction and operations would be “small.”. On the Radar. PFAS Research Agenda.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

. -- Plug Oil & Gas Wells To Cut Methane Pollution: Shapiro will invest to plug abandoned wells across the state to curb emissions and create jobs. -- Zero-Carbon Technology: Invest in zero-carbon technology and provide financial incentives to help bring zero-carbon technologies to commercial readiness.

Natural Gas

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To address this challenge—and this incredible opportunity—TNC and Opti , a technology company, began thinking of ways to use new, low-cost “smart” technologies to improve water quality by focusing on stormwater infrastructure. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee meets to consider House Bill 2189 (Matzie-D-Beaver) reauthorizing the PA One Call underground utility safety program [that excludes almost all conventional oil and gas pipelines]; House Resolution 511 (Matzie-D-Beaver) designating Sept. Rules Room [No video coverage].

Natural Gas

E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing the challenges that forever chemicals pose will require additional funding to employ the necessary technology and water infrastructure designed specifically for this purpose. Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – Uncertainty persists regarding federal and potential state efforts to regulate PFAS and other “forever chemicals.”

2024

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A determined woman with a keen mind, Taylor knows farming, environment, water, minerals, education, and a lot more about Lenawee County where she lives. For much of her career she taught an International Baccalaureate course in information technology, business, and math to high schoolers, some of whom are now friends. .

2020

National Law Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In late January, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it was seeking public comment on its proposal to revise technology-based. The post EPA Proposes Updates to Effluent Limitations for Meat and Poultry Processors appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

These laws have reduced extreme cases of pollution, such as rivers catching on fire or streams changing color due to industrial waste. PaEN] -- Mountain Watershed Assn.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With this rule, Pennsylvania moved ahead of the EPA in protecting drinking water and joined a small group of states that set regulatory limits for some PFAS chemicals in drinking water. The MCLs are effective immediately but most systems will conduct initial monitoring in 2024 and 2025.

2019

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following the science and the Clean Water Act to develop technology-based pollution limits and studies on wastewater discharges from industrial sources.

Regulations

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.

Waste

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).

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2024

PennVEST financing is available for a variety of clean water projects including facility projects that incorporate clean energy technologies such as solar, anaerobic digesters, hydrothermal carbonization, and dam-sourced or in-conduit hydropower, as stand-alone projects or as a portion of a larger project that benefits the facility.

Clean Water Act

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When the deadline passed, environmental groups sued the EPA alleging that the EPA’s delay violated the Clean Water Act. The SNPR also concludes that under the EPA’s analysis, a stricter ballast water discharge standard would not be the “Best Available Technology Economically Achievable,” or “BAT.”

2020

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Conservation Innovation Grants are critical for developing science, technology and innovative tools to address natural resource concerns on Pennsylvania’s private working lands,” said State Conservationist Denise Coleman. These grants help bridge the gap between initial product development and taking that product or approach to market.

Conservation

Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Steven Miano I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.),

Law

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post covers the most significant legislation affecting state water quality protections: AQUACULTURE PERMITTING Replace the existing NPDES General Permit for aquaculture operations. The Clean Water Act requires a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for any release of waste to surface waters.

2023

Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Everybody knows there are straightforward management practices and technologies that could significantly reduce agricultural water pollution. For fifty years the Clean Water Act has exempted agriculture from federal regulation and left the problem for the states to regulate.

Clean Water Act