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April 9, 2012: U.S. EPA overstepped its authority when it vetoed a Clean Water Act permit issued for a sprawling mountaintop - removal coal mining project in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled today.

In this case, the Ninth Circuit held that every culvert and ditched that channeled rainwater runoff from forest roads was a discharge from a point source, requiring a Clean Water Act permit.

Arch Coal did not adopt the recommended changes for the Spruce Mine, and in early Jan. 2011, EPA officials revoked the operation's Clean Water Act permit, citing «destructive and unsustainable mining practices» proposed by the company.

On March 2, 2010 the EPA announced that it had granted a Clean Water Act permit for the Hobet 45 mine in Lincoln County, West Virginia after Hobet Mining LLC, a company owned by Patriot Coal, had agreed to additional «significant protections» against environmental impacts.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a section 404 Clean Water Act permit to a Massey Coal subsidiary for the Reylas Surface Mine in Logan County, West Virginia.

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.

• Worker safety standards enforced under the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Mine Safety and Health Act • Clean Water Act permitting of wastewater and stormwater discharges • Clean Air Act emissions regulation • Hazardous waste management and underground storage tank requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) • Spill and chemical reporting and release prevention under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Emergency Planning and Community Right - to - Know Act, Oil Pollution Act, and Clean Water Act • Regulation of chemical manufacturing and distribution under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) • Environmental disclosures under Regulation S - K of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and corporate reporting of environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters to the public and interested investors

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The 1972 Clean Water Act makes it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a single identifiable source — such as a pipe — into certain bodies of water without a peWater Act makes it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a single identifiable source — such as a pipe — into certain bodies of water without a pewater without a permit.

Last fall Bryson decided that, under the Clean Water Act, it would need a permit to discharge lead, based on a similar case involving a U.S. Navy firing range in Puerto Rico.

It was ruled that a permit was required since lead shot was falling into a water channel in violation of the federal Clean Waterwater channel in violation of the federal Clean WaterWater Act.

U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo made the permit a necessity in February when he agreed with Park District opponent Roger Stone's contention that the trapshooting was a violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

Rep. Faso Vote Record Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com Pesticides Regulations — Vote Passed (256 - 165, 9 Not Voting) The bill would generally prohibit EPA and states from requiring that entities applying pesticides near navigable waters must first obtain a permit under the Clean Water Act, if the application is authorized under -LSB-...]

But under the Clean Water Act, by not acting within a year of the permit request, the DEC now has to approve the project, the suit claims.

«Other provisions within the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 would push for greater energy efficiency, updates to the energy grid, and a grid storage program; ease the permitting of natural gas pipelines; and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which provides money for habitat protection.

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

Nationwide permits are allowed under the Clean Water Act for projects with «minimal cumulative environmental impacts.»

The state began to require some permits in the 1950s, but rigorous accounting didn't begin until the Clean Water Act brought federal agencies into play in 1972.

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

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.

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).

Sotomayor also held that the EPA could not consider restoration measures - such as restocking fish to compensate for fish killed by an intake system - when determining the best technology available for a particular power plant. Sotomayor wrote that» [r] estoration measures are not part of the location, design, construction, or capacity of cooling water intake structures, and a rule permitting compliance with the statute through restoration measures allows facilities to avoid adopting any cooling water intake structure technology at all, in contravention of the Act's clear language as well as its technology - forcing principle.

The judge agreed that that the plant needed permits from the Army Corp of Engineers subject to the approval of the EPA to be in compliance with the Clean Water Act.

According to senior EPA officials, the rule, crafted by both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, will provide greater clarity about which waters are subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction and greater certainty about which activities require CWA permits.

The groups contended that Millennium Bulk Terminals is violating the Clean Water Act by handling coal without a permit.

Using the power granted under the Clean Water Act, DEC officials rejected the companies» permit application, citing damage the project would do to water supplies along the pipeline rWater Act, DEC officials rejected the companies» permit application, citing damage the project would do to water supplies along the pipeline rwater supplies along the pipeline route.

The Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA are still permitting mountaintop removal mining permits in Appalachia, despite the regulations of the Clean Water Act....

Far from a trickle, according to the EPA «110 individual and general mining permits have been issued by the Corps of Engineers since the Obama administration began under section 404 of the Clean Water Act.»

According to the EPA, the rule will ensure «waters protected under the Clean Water Act are more precisely defined and predictably determined, making permitting less costly, easier, and faster for businesses and industry.»

They say New York State environmental officials granted permits for the project in violation of a provision of the Federal Clean Water Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water boWater Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water bowater bodies.

Patriot had thus violated the terms of the Clean Water Act it promised in its permits to observe.

Reviewing the DNR's decision de novo, but with a great weight of deference to the agency, the court concluded that any other ruling «would undermine the careful federal and state balance created by the Clean Water Act and would thwart the finality of permits properly issued under the WPDES permit program.

He has successfully represented clients in matters involving hazardous substances, air and water quality, land use, toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory iswater quality, land use, toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory isWater & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory issues.

Erika E. Malmen (Boise) is a member of the Environment, Energy & Resources practice, representing clients in permitting, compliance, and litigation under various statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Federal Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Provided legal project management and legal services, including Connecticut Environmental Policy Act (CEPA) evaluations, a master agreement with the state and municipality, a strategic zoning revision, site remediation, and the negotiation of «clean standard» and Environmental Land Use Restrictions, wetland and water resource permitting, and local permits and approvals.

In private practice, Tom represented clients in a wide range of federal civil and criminal litigation brought under federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, while also representing clients in the environmental review and permitting for major energy and railroad infrastructure projects.

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Whilst providing some procedural rights to Indigenous peoples regarding leases, licences and permits regulating the management of water, the Native Title Act has been interpreted as not imposing an obligation to comply with the common law rules of procedural fairness.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers («Corps») has proposed new and revised Nationwide Permits («NWPs») for activities that require authorization under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act or Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act.

As part of the regulatory approval process for a new peat processing site, the Company applied for permit under the Clean Water Act («CWA») to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers («Corps»).

During the last two years, Republicans, like their Democratic predecessors in prior Congresses, failed to pass major overhauls of the Superfund hazardous waste law, the Endangered Species Act, or wetlands permitting processes (Clean Water Act).

The EPA determined that the site contained jurisdictional wetlands under the Clean Water Act (CWA), and that the Sacketts had failed to obtain a permit in violation of the law.

[SWOOSH] Question: what properties require a permit under the Clean Water Act?

The court said that owners do not have to go through an expensive and time consuming permit process before they can challenge the federal government - on whether their property is subject to Clean Water Act restrictions.

Expanding federal authority under the Clean Water Act would greatly increase the number of construction sites required to obtain appropriate permits, which will also result in the delay or impede construction projects.

Enacted in 1987, the Clean Water Act continues to be a source of confusion for both regulators and those subject to regulation — and just what land should fall under federal, as opposed to state or local, permitting authority.