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The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination. The CWA seeks to accomplish its stated goals by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, assisting wastewater treatment facilities and maintaining wetlands. less -

California Appeals Court Rules that State Water Board’s Duty to Prevent Waste and Unreasonable Use of Water is “Highly...

Downey Brand LLP on 3/1/2023

On February 27, 2023, in a much anticipated decision, California’s Second District Court of Appeal overruled the trial court by determining that the State Water Resources Control Board (“State Water Board”) did not violate...more

RCRA Wastewater Treatment Unit Exemption: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Interpretive Letter

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/3/2022

United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery Director Carolyn Hoskinson transmitted a September 9th letter providing an interpretation of the Resource Conservation and...more

pH/Aluminum/Copper: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses Challenge to New Hampshire POTW NPDES Permit Conditions

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/14/2022

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) issued a June 17th decision challenging certain conditions in a Keene, New Hampshire, (“City”) Public Owned Treatment Works...more

Draft U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 NPDES General Permit (Massachusetts) Facilities: PFAS Monitoring

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 5/9/2022

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (“NACWA”) submitted April 26th comments to Region 1 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing its draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...more

Part One – Air, Water, California Proposition 65, and Cannabis

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/11/2021

Cannabis growing and processing operations face increasing regulatory pressure to assess and reduce their environmental impacts – especially in the areas of water quality, air emissions, energy use and sustainability,...more

Phosphorus/Clean Water Act: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses POTW Challenge to NPDES Permit

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/1/2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed a June 29th Petition for Review (“Petition”) filed by the City of Lowell, Massachusetts, (“Lowell”). See NPDES Appeal No....more

Peak Wet Weather Flow Management/POTWs: Association of Clean Water Administrators Comments on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/6/2018

The Association of Clean Water Administrators (“ACWA”) submitted October 31st comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on an August 31st Federal Register Notice soliciting input on: . . ....more

Environmental Notes - May 2018

Williams Mullen on 5/3/2018

New Source Review (“NSR”) remains a focus of enforcement for EPA. Between last year and now, EPA finalized eight settlements with manufacturers and one with a utility, asserting NSR violations for allegedly not obtaining a...more

EPA Loses Another Battle in the War Over Guidance: The Eighth Circuit Vacates EPA Policies on Mixing Zones and Bypasses

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 3/26/2013

On Monday, EPA lost another battle in the war over guidance. In Iowa League of Cities v. EPA, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated two letters that EPA had sent to Senator Charles Grassley concerning biological mixing...more

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