Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 12, 2023

The lawsuit alleges that the EPA has violated the Clean Water Act by failing to set limits on the amount of pollution that these industries can discharge into waterways. The post EPA Sued Over Unregulated Water Pollution appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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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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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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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 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 27, 2021

The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. Regan also said that the EPA will propose a draft regulation in November that would define the waterbodies that are regulated by the Clean Water Act. By the Numbers. 86,000 Metric Tons : Amount of used nuclear fuel from U.S. commercial power reactors.

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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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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Supreme Court is stepping once more into Clean Water Act “waters of the United States,” more popularly known as WOTUS. If you’re a Clean Water Act wonk, there may be a little voice in the back of your head yelling, “Theeeey’re baaack!” United States.

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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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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Typically during a rainstorm, stormwater will overflow onto the concrete channel, carrying pollutants such as herbicides, oils, industrial waste, and plastics. Water,” Damon said, explaining why he has lived there for so long. Heavily contaminated water samples collected from the L.A. Tillman Reclamation Plant. coli bacteria.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But they were laying waste to the rivers and land. Key to Thornburgh was the importance of establishing the very bedrock principle of modern water law: You don’t have any RIGHT to put ANYTHING in the water. Was the prosecution fair?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

The EPA intends to deny a Clean Water Act permit for a mine development in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Officials sign a Navajo-Utah water rights settlement. The EPA announces an interagency working group for water reuse. The Rundown. NOAA expects another above-average Atlantic hurricane season. By the Numbers.

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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. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution.

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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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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The character and culture of Philadelphia have always been linked to water. The rivers that gird the city are our gateway to the world, a source of drinking water, and, paradoxically, a site for waste disposal. The repulsive conditions of water in the Schuylkill and the Delaware were the stuff of legend by the mid-20th century.

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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 Clean Water Act is a clunky instrument for addressing diffuse pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

He counsels clients on compliance under the full suite of environmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act (CWA); National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); Endangered Species Act (ESA); the Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); and state equivalents.

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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. Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 million from the state Department of Natural Resources.

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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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E2 Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2023

Earth Day was created in 1970 by Senator Gaylor Nelson to draw attention to ongoing issues with toxic air and waste. Twenty million Americans participated in the first Earth Day, eventually leading to the formation of the EPA and then the passing of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

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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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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

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. However, despite this progress and decades of significant investments, half of U.S. rivers and streams do not meet standards for fishing, swimming, or drinking.

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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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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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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

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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Acoel

JUNE 15, 2021

Decades of steelmaking had produced enormous quantities of hazardous wastes, including metals and organics, which were disposed of in unlined ditches and ponds, or simply dumped on the ground. This resulted in contamination of soils, surface water and groundwater, and runoff into the Patapsco River.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This will help DEP track where PFAS chemicals may be entering Pennsylvania’s rivers and streams through wastewater treatment plant discharges, which may include wastewater discharges from industrial entities known or suspected to discharge PFAS in their waste streams. [In

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

(Maintaining CERCLA’s reputation for incoherent drafting , it is not clear whether the exclusion applies to any such orders or only orders issued pursuant to certain other federal environmental statutes, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Clean Water Act.)

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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.

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MGKF Law

MAY 24, 2021

Read More » Tags: Case Update , CERCLA , Clean Water Act , Cleanup , Consent Decree , Contamination , Contribution , Cost Recovery , Decisions of Note , Landfill , Statute of Limitations , Superfund , Supreme Court , United States Supreme Court , Waste.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Census Bureau must participate in this program, managed in Pennsylvania by the Department of Environmental Protection under the federal Clean Water Act. Communities classified as “Urbanized Areas” by the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

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. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) v.

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Smith Enviorment

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

DEQ’s Division of Waste Management (DWM) works with local governments to pre-approve new landfills for vegetative waste and non-hazardous construction debris before a storm hits. Removal of debris from streams and rivers may require a federal permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Animal waste.

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