Sentences with phrase «safe drinking water act»

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper question whether Pruitt or one of his aides abused special hiring powers granted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The ongoing lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan has shown not all water systems are safe from contamination — and, in fact, a recent analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found around 77 million Americans are served by water systems with violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

National drinking water standard goes into effect, three years after the Safe Drinking Water Act is passed.

Point of entry treatment unit has the same meaning as in subsection 1 (1) of Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking Water Systems) made under the Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002.

While at the EPA Kushner oversaw enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Safe Drinking Water Act, and other environmental statutes.

Government officials also argue that a separate federal statute, the Safe Drinking Water Act, precludes all other causes of action.

He relied on a 1992 decision, Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield, by the 1st Circuit at Boston, which also found that the Safe Drinking Water Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminations.

In addition, our litigators defend clients in a wide range of civil and criminal enforcement actions arising out of the major federal environmental statutes — including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), FIFRA, RCRA, TSCA, and EPCRA (Right - to - Know)-- as well as climate change regulation, renewable energy regulation, and project development.

Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he «helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,» including, «Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly, covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).»

At the federal level, regulation is insufficient due to certain explicit exemptions from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act granted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Then there's the issue of groundwater contamination, as fracking activities aren't subjected to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Controversially, it is exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, unless diesel fuel is used.

Under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, chlorination is absolutely required for rain water used in a public water supply, and there is no administrative discretion.

Leading energy industry analysts believe that in whatever energy bill Congress passes next, there will be both a new federal requirement on frack chemical disclosure and an amendment to assure that fracking is regulated by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water supplies.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from EPA regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act in the energy bill of 2005.

That finding was the basis for the Halliburton loopole in the Energy Policy Act, which exempted fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The Halliburton loophole, which exempts fracking from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, was justified by an EPA study about fracking completed under the George W. Bush administration.

A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.

Key regulations governing shale development include: Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; National Environmental Policy Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act; Endangered Species Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Industry activity is subject to a number of federal and state laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

The FRAC Act called for the removal of hydraulic fracturing's exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act, and would have implemented federal regulation of the industry.

Those section conclude that «significant gaps remain» in regulation despite updates in some states, and they describe exemptions for fracking wastes from the Resource Recovery and Response Act's hazardous waste requirements, from the Clean Water Act's comprehensive permit program for discharges into surface waters, and from the Safe Drinking Water Act (which regulates groundwater pollution).

Properties having community wells or sewage systems will require a state operating permit, evidence of compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act and a legal binding contract to enforce the obligation of the operator to provide satisfactory service at reasonable rates - must be maintained in our file.

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

A new study showed that anywhere between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from unsafe sources in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Congress formally recognized EDCs as a public health concern in 1996 when it passed the Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The U.S. Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act are passed, mandating that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop a new chemical screening program to help identify endocrine disruptors.

In 1974, the Safe Drinking Water Act was passed, establishing a framework for regulating injection.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

The EPA did take one tiny step — among the Bush administration's only ones to date — toward tackling global warming last week when it released regs governing how companies may pump and store carbon dioxide underground (to limit climate change) without violating the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Currently, federal law requires carbon sequestration operators to undergo a vigorous permitting process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

A new report charges that several oil and gas companies have been illegally using diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

The Safe Drinking Water Act requires drilling companies to obtain permits when they intend to use diesel fuel in their fracking operations.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

«It starts to finger - point stronger and stronger to the source being somehow related to the gas development, including, but not necessarily conclusively, hydraulic fracturing itself,» said Nathan Wiser, an EPA scientist and hydraulic fracturing expert who oversees enforcement for the underground injection control program under the Safe Drinking Water Act in the Rocky Mountain region.

That's in part because the identity of the chemicals used by the gas industry for drilling and fracturing are protected as trade secrets, and because the EPA, based on an exemption passed under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, does not have authority to investigate the fracturing process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Before hydraulic fracturing was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005, the EPA assessed the process and concluded it did not pose a threat to drinking water.

The Safe Drinking Water Act, which ensures that the nation has a safe drinking water supply, should be fully enforced.

Fracking is specifically exempted from much federal regulation, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.

Citing a controversial EPA study, the Bush administration exempts fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act.

What's interesting is they are smart enough not to go to Congress and say, «We want to repeal the Safe Drinking Water Act or want to repeal the Clean Air Act,» because even in this Congress it wouldn't fly.

Rep. Paul Tonko unveiled legislation he co-authored with Rep. Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, that would reauthorize the Safe Drinking Water Act and replenish its state revolving fund with more than $ 20 billion over the next five years for local water - line improvement projects.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

That was reduced to just 0.25 % by the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2014.

In 1974, the Safe Drinking Water Act made the EPA responsible for monitoring drinking water for public health concerns like lead.

Not exact matches

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projWater Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projwater; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Recent changes to California Proposition 65 — also called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act — that go into effect in August 2018 will require beverage companies to call out specific chemical names in addition to a warning symbol.

California's Prop 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires companies to place a warning label on any product they sell within California if it exceeds the level that the State has established as risk - free for a list of over eight hundred chemicals.