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• December 21, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  December 21, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. For the next two weeks, I have added a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Talks.  If ...
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• Tax Break for Cargill Salt

  
  IRS Tax Problem Solver Blog - IRS Help — Authority: 126
  In a hotly disputed case stretching back to 2003, Cargill Salt, a giant Minneapolis agribusiness company was recently awarded a $100 million tax break by the IRS. Back in 2003, the company sold 16,500 acres of industrial salt ponds in the South Bay to two government agencies for wetlands restoration purposes. The ...
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• 300 Clean Water Act Violations! Illinois Citizens File Notice to Sue Reckless Coal Strip Mine

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 502
  Dashing through the snow in the watersheds of some of the last old growth forest in Illinois … are discharges of illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water, thanks to a reckless strip-mining coal operation. At the Fulton County Health Department in ...
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• Donut Sludge Clogs Sewers

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks ScienceStuff — Authority: 112
  Until I edited an enormous suite of heart health articles last year, I always had a hard time visualizing the slow buildup of arterial plaque -- the clog, if you will. Now I have a striking visual parallel, and a colorful one at that: the gradual clogging of Virginia sewers with "donut sludge" (words from ...
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• House delays EPA reach into wetlands

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Plans to rush through the House of Representatives legislation that would expand the scope of the Clean Water Act, the main tool for keeping the nations waters clean, have proved to be too ambitious. Rep. James L. Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, last week shelved his goal ...
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• December 14, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  December 14, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. For the next two weeks, I have added a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Talks.  If ...
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• Audubon Society 2009 Victories, Clean Water Restoration Act Needs Help

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 148
  Audubon Society sends out an annual wrap up of the year, looking at victories that the nonprofit organization championed. Their top five list for 2009 includes: #1. Climate and Energy Bill Heads for Final Lap #2. Endangered Species Act Wins Back Protections #3. Neotropical Migratory Songbirds Singing a Sweeter Tune ...
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• Video: How not to clean up Colorado’s leaking mines

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 616
  If you want a good explanation of why it makes no sense to require every draining mine in Colorado to have a treatment plant at its base, check out the recently-posted video titled “Act of Congress: Good Samaritans and Draining Mines.” The video was created by Biscuit Boy Productions and Tom Schillaci, a ...
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• EPA decree constitutional?

  
  Michael Wolfe — Authority: 106
  The Washington Times reported this: “The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant “enhanced” review. And, (the) agency went even further in October, ...
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• New York Times: Water Pollution Laws Violated Half a Million Times

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 508
  Kind of makes you rethink those eight glasses of water a day. (Thomas Northcut/Getty Images) The New York Times has released its sweeping look at the U.S. public water supply, nicely timed to coincide with Copenhagen , and the news isn’t good. You might say it’s not all that potable, much like the water laced ...
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• Millions in U.S. Drinking Dirty Water, Records Show

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 151
  More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years.
  2 weeks ago

• December 7, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  December 7, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every Monday, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What can the National Lake Assessment Tell Us about Ecosystem Se...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  The condition of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs is often viewed as existing along a continuum from pristine to impacted. The 2007 National Lake Survey was conducted to assess the condition of the nation?s lakes. Over 1,000 lakes were surveyed and detailed physical and chemical data were collected. Field crews also ...
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• CLIMATEGATE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED CAUSE, SO BEWARE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 125
  I want to go on record here sooner than later about this thing called Climategate. I am on record many times saying that it is not a question of whether or not 9/11 was an inside job but rather only a matter of how deep and wide. This thing called Climategate at best must be approached from the opposite direction. ...
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• WRI Releases Analysis of Chesapeake Clean Water Act

  
  Chesapeake Bay News — Authority: 120
  A new analysis of the nutrient trading program contained in the proposed federal Chesapeake Clean Water Act has determined that Maryland farmers could be paid as much as $85 million annually to reduce nitrogen pollution, creating jobs and bolstering the agricultural economy. The analysis by the World Resources ...
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• Water Privatization is No Deal

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 417
  I recently watched “ Thirst ,” a film about water privatization , which documents efforts to privatize water in Bolivia, India, and Stockton, California to examine whether water is part of a shared “commons” and a human right for all people, or a commodity to be bought, sold and traded in a global ...
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• NPDES permits on impaired waterways

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 427
  Pinto Creek (photo from Save Pinto Creek blog) Cross-posted at CPRBlog. Precisely what the Clean Water Act requires of point sources that discharge to already-polluted waterways has long been a point of confusion. Now, according to Inside EPA (subscription required) EPA may revise the rules it applies to new ...
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• Agriculture interests fighting new clean water permitting for pesticides

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 616
  The agriculture industry is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling requiring anyone spraying pesticides on or near water to hold a Clean Water Act permit. Earlier this year, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that farmers who apply pesticides near or over water need to apply ...
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• Katie Redding and David Sirota talk insurance industry discrimination and clean water

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 616
  Colorado Independent writer Katie Redding joined Progressive Talk 760 AM host David Sirota this morning to discuss her recent reporting on insurance industry gender discrimination and pending national Good Samaritan water cleanup legislation. Redding dialed in from her chilly open-air back porch in Leadville, ...
  3 weeks ago

• November 30, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  November 30, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every Monday, ...
  3 weeks ago

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