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MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA and army to announce final clean water rule today (Wednesday)
In an historic step for the protection of clean water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army are finalizing the Clean Water Rule today to clearly protect from pollution and degradation the streams and wetlands that form the foundation of the nation’s water resources. This afternoon at 12:45 pm ET, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Assistant Secretary Jo-Ellen Darcy ...
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Administrator McCarthy to Testify in Front of House-Senate Joint Hearing on the Clean Water Rule
U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Jo-Ellen Darcy will testify today in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the proposed Clean Water Rule. Sixty percent of streams and millions of acres of wetlands across the country aren’t clearly ...
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What’s Next for ´Waters of the U.S ´ (WOTUS)?
President Trump’s February 28, 2017, Executive Order (E.O.) directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to rescind and replace the Clean Water Rule (CWR) is the latest development in the attempt to resolve the long-standing question of which surface waters and wetlands may be federally regulated and subjected to permitting under the ...
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EPA, National Aquarium, business leaders stress importance of Clean Water Rule on environment, economy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency joined officials from local boating businesses, brewers and the National Aquarium at the Inner Harbor today to highlight what the Obama Administration’s Clean Water Rule means to Maryland’s rivers, streams and drinking water. “It’s important that we protect the quality of water in our lakes and rivers by ensuring that the streams ...
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EHS This Week: EPA Launches Clean Water Rule, Safety Tips for Health Care Workers and More!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we've got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: Clean Water Rule Courts Controversy Safety Tips for Health Care Workers Groundbreaking Animal Welfare Policy for Walmart’s Supply Chain California’s Oil Spill Listen to the full podcast ...
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A New Step Towards Clean Drinking Water in the USA
A new rule to protect drinking water was issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on May 27. The Clean Water Rule clarifies which waters are protected under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act, created in 1972, has been effective for decades in protecting drinking water in the United States. However, decisions from the Supreme Court in 2001 ...
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EPA: Clean water rule in effect despite court ruling
The Environmental Protection Agency says it is going forward with a new federal rule to protect small streams, tributaries and wetlands, despite a court ruling that blocked the measure in 13 central and Western states. The EPA says the rule, which took effect Friday in more than three dozen states, will safeguard drinking water for millions of Americans. Opponents pledged to continue to fight ...
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Remanded and Vacated: U.S. Navigable Waters Protection Rule
On August 30, 2021, a judge from the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona remanded and vacated the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), the rule that replaced the 2015 Clean Water Rule, and that significantly reduced the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act by redefining Waters of the United States. The judge’s order in Pasqua Yaqui Tribe v EPA is ...
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Farm Bureau Ducks NRDC Challenge to Debate Clean Water Rule
The American Farm Bureau Federation has tried to duck a challenge from the Natural Resources Defense Council to a public debate over the bureau’s willful misrepresentations regarding a new clean water proposal, which is now under assault by House Republicans. But today the NRDC repeated its call for an “open debate” on the issue. In a letter last week to Farm Bureau President ...
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Today: EPA Administrator at the National Zoo for the Youth Summit on the Environment
On Monday, June 29, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will deliver remarks at the National Zoo to high school students participating in George Mason University’s Washington Youth Summit on the Environment program. Administrator McCarthy will speak about the Clean Water Rule, which ensures waters protected under the Clean Water Act are more precisely ...
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Clean Water Rule Protects Streams and Wetlands Critical to Public Health, Communities, and Economy
In an historic step for the protection of clean water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army finalized the Clean Water Rule today to clearly protect from pollution and degradation the streams and wetlands that form the foundation of the nation’s water resources. The rule ensures that waters protected under the Clean Water Act are more precisely defined and predictably ...
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NRDC: Chamber’s Attack on Clean Water Rule Puts Polluters’ Profits First
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today attacked a new clean water rule with unsubstantiated charges about excessive costs that hold no water. Jon Devine, a senior attorney with the Water Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “Clean water supports a strong economy. Anglers spend roughly $40 billion a year on fishing, tourist dollars support the ...
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NRDC’s “Exaggerator” Video Takes on Polluters’ Wild Claims about Proposed Clean Water Rule
The Natural Resources Defense Council launched a video campaign today taking a comic jab at big corporate polluters’ hyperbolic claims about the proposed Clean Water Protection Rule, which is intended to restore protections for waterways that help supply drinking water for more than 100 million Americans. The 2-minute video called “The Exaggerator,” features comedian Ted ...
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Today: EPA administrator to deliver remarks at National Water Policy Forum
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will speak today at the National Water Policy Forum. She will focus on the need to protect our nation's streams and wetlands that provide drinking water to 1 in 3 Americans and are currently vulnerable to pollution and destruction. She will also discuss policy measures aimed at shoring up the nation’s aging water infrastructure and enhancing its resiliency ...
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Monday: Epa Administrator To Deliver Remarks At National Water Policy Forum
On Monday, April 13, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will speak at the National Water Policy Forum. She will focus on the need to protect our nation's streams and wetlands that provide drinking water to 1 in 3 Americans and are currently vulnerable to pollution and destruction. She will also discuss policy measures aimed at shoring up the nation’s aging water infrastructure and enhancing ...
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Tomorrow: EPA Administrator in Portland, Oregon, to focus on air quality and clean water
This Wednesday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be in Portland, Oregon to award a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and speak at the Craft Brewers Conference about the importance of protecting our nation’s water resources. The DERA grant will work towards replacing heavy-duty diesel trucks that operate locally and ...
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Wednesday: EPA administrator in Portland, or to focus on air quality and clean water
This Wednesday, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be in Portland, Oregon to award a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and speak at the Craft Brewers Conference about the importance of protecting our nation’s water resources. The DERA grant will work towards replacing heavy-duty diesel trucks that operate locally and ...
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Idaho sugar company failed to prevent industrial stormwater discharges, violated federal clean water rules
The Amalgamated Sugar Company, of Paul, Idaho, violated the Clean Water Act when it discharged stormwater without authorization under a federal industrial stormwater permit – the Multi Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity – according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “To help protect Idaho’s water quality, ...
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EPA Regional Administrator Visits Queens Park to Spotlight the Importance of Protecting Wetlands
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck today joined Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, the Commissioner for NYC Parks, and Irene Scheid, the Executive Director at the Alley Pond Education Center, to mark progress of EPA-funded work to restore wetlands at Alley Pond, in Douglaston and Flushing, Queens. In recent years, the EPA has provided $480,000 I grants to NYC Parks ...
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NRDC: Clean Water Proposal Will Help Families, Homeowners Get Safe Drinking Water
A proposed new clean water rule will help ensure Americans have safe drinking water by closing a critical gap in the country’s pollution laws, the Natural Resources Defense Council said. In more than 60 pages of formal comments submitted late Friday to the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NRDC said the new Clean Water Protection Rule, by clarifying ...
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