Sentences with phrase «federal water laws»

A National Clean Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement them.

There was a lot not to like in the federal water law that the president just signed, but some of the money in there is for additional flood control projects.

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How do you argue those counterfeit water pipes are illegal under trademark law when the original is illegal under federal criminal law?

Landlords who finance their buildings through a federally insured bank could be in legally murky water if they choose to rent to a cannabis tenant because the plant is still illegal under federal law.

Now that the federal law requires free water to be available in all cafeterias, students could take water, a fruit / vegetable, and the protein and grain servings.

I tend to come down on the side of: Why do we need a federal law that says the school must provide free water with lunch??

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

Agricultural practices conducted on farmland shall not violate the public policy of Erie county if such agricultural practices are: (i) reasonable and necessary to the particular farm or farm operation; (ii) conducted in a manner which is not negligent or reckless; (iii) conducted in conformity with generally accepted agricultural practices; (iv) conducted in conformity with all local, state and federal laws, ordinances and regulations; (v) conducted in a manner which does not constitute a threat to public health and safety or cause injury to health and safety of any person; and (vi) conducted in a manner which does not unreasonably obstruct the free passage or use of navigable waters or public roadways.

Both houses of the Canadian federal government have passed a new law that when enacted will lift several years of uncertainty concerning the rights of American boaters and anglers on the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, the Niagara River — in fact, on any border water of the two countries.

Public Health, Improve Rockland's air, water, housing and environmental quality through application of State and Federal laws by appointment and creation of a County General Inspection Office, which enforces such laws and report to county executive and general public with transparency.

It says the state Department of Environmental Conservation has held up approval of a water quality permit for the pipeline for so long that it is in violation of two federal laws.

Also included: new money for public schools and water quality and several tax changes intended to help New Yorkers negatively impacted by the new federal tax law.

The measure would come after more than 320,000 people have been left without heat or hot water this winter and following months of revelations that the housing authority had failed to conduct inspections for lead paint as required by federal rules and city law for four years.

The agency is required by federal law to review water standards every six years.

The term «water law» in the Colorado River basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the river.

A 2012 ProPublica investigation of more than 700,000 injection wells across the country found that wells were often poorly regulated and experienced high rates of failure, outcomes that were likely polluting underground water supplies that are supposed to be protected by federal law.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

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

The final BDCP is intended to provide the scientific underpinning needed to gain authorizations under federal and state endangered species laws to build the water diversion tunnel.

Who gets water, and from where and how much, is dictated by the Law of the River, which consists of state and federal law, treaties and compacLaw of the River, which consists of state and federal law, treaties and compaclaw, treaties and compacts.

That same newspaper reported, «Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law, and putting millions of Americans at risk.»

By muddying the water with inaccurate statements about the intricacies of federal law and waivers, these officials seek to reduce opt - out numbers and buy time for discredited test - and - punish schemes.

After the federal Lead Contamination Control Act was signed into law in 1988, the Orleans Parish school district tested school water.

While the law marked a high water mark of federal control over K - 12 education, it was still, relatively speaking, not far from the ocean floor.

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According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

The federal Twenty - Eight Hour Law, 49 USC § 80502, addresses neglect of animals being transported across state lines by requiring that transporters «may not confine animals in a vehicle or vessel for more than 28 consecutive hours without unloading the animals for feeding, water, and rest.».

Federal law does not regulate breeders who sell puppies directly to the public, though state cruelty and neglect laws usually require adequate food, water, shelter, and veterinary care for sick animals.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

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.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

Socially Responsible Agricultural Project (SRAP): To expand the Water Rangers Project which will recruit and train residents living downstream from factory farms, equipping them with the tools and expertise required to hold polluting operations accountable to state and federal environmental laws.

Despite this interest, the industry faces market barriers caused by federal laws restricting the use of foreign vessels in U.S. waters.

From compliance of federal and state laws to building timber harvest plans that minimize environmental impact, private forest landowners are taking the necessary steps in their everyday practices to be stewards for the water, soil, and wildlife of working forests.

Tragically, fracking is not regulated by federal statutes governing water safety, because industry lobbyists obtained an exemption from this law, known as the «Halliburton loophole.»

She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

In 2007, legislative reauthorization introduced substantial changes to the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the primary federal law that governs conservation of fisheries in U.S. federal waters.

President Bush also supported a proposed law that would require any U.S. community that wants federal money for improving its water system to consider privatization.

For more than a decade the energy industry has steadfastly argued before courts, Congress and the public that the federal law protecting drinking water should not be applied to hydraulic fracturing [2], the industrial process that is essential to extracting the nation's vast natural gas reserves.

In that role, she led over 300 attorneys in 16 offices nationwide and acquired significant experience in onshore and offshore energy development (conventional and renewable), the administration of federal water projects, conservation and wildlife legal requirements, and public land law.

His environmental and tort litigation experience includes dozens of products liability actions in California State and Federal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or tort docFederal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or tort docfederal criminal laws, environmental laws, or tort doctrines.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

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.

Montana Chamber of Commerce, Business and the Law Conference, Federal Impacts on MT Employers — Immigration & NLRB Update, March 14, 2018 (Helena, Montana) Montana Medical Association Interim Membership and Board of Trustees Meeting, Health Care Legislation Highlights, February 17, 2017 (Helena, Montana) Montana Energy Conference, Legal Obstacles to Energy Development: Clean Power Plan and Ground Level Ozone, March 29, 2016 (Billings, Montana) CERCLA Successor Liability, fall / winter 2015 (Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota) Montana Energy Law Seminar, Governmental Affairs & Legislative Update, August 31, 2015 (co-presented with Aimee Grmoljez)(Billings, Montana) EPA's Proposed Reduction to Ground Level Ozone NAAQS, January 2015 (Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota) R.S. 2477 Litigation and Legislation Presentation for the Alaska State Bar Association and a coalition of corporate landowners in Alaska, winter / spring 2014 (Anchorage, Alaska) «Banking for Salmon: How to Balance the Klamath Basin's Liquid Ledger Sheet with a Comprehensive Basin - Wide Water Bank,» Editorial, VT..

General maritime law has been around for centuries and refers to an entire body of federal law that regulates accidents that take place on the waters.

But if an accident happens on navigable waters, and the plaintiff brings a claim under federal maritime law, a Louisiana jury can award punitive damages, and Louisiana courts then must decide the full...

Counseled major aerospace manufacturing company regarding how to remediate heavily contaminated property, in compliance with federal and state hazardous waste, water, and environmental disclosure laws and administrative orders, while advising company on litigation strategy to narrow the scope of those orders.

Our team is experienced in underground storage tank regulation and litigation of actions brought pursuant to California Proposition 65, the Federal Clean Water Act and various state environmental laws and tort doctrines, including actions alleging contamination, product defect and failure to warn regarding methyl tertiary butyl ether («MTBE»).

Our environmental litigation practice covers every aspect of federal and state environmental law including rulemaking, permits, enforcement, hazardous substances and toxic wastes, insecticides and fungicides, superfund and natural resources damages liability, land use and contaminated property, citizen suits, and air and water issues.

Guard against flood water damage with a separate policy, as specified by federal law.