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National Briefing | Science: Group Set to Sue Over Clean Water Act
The Center for Biological Diversity said it was prepared to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to use the Clean Water Act to respond to the threat of ocean acidification.EPA Sued Over Florida Water Pollution
... sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the federal government is violating the Clean Water Act by failing to set standards for farm and urban runoff that is polluting Florida's ...Dot Earth: Water Laws May Be Used to Fight Warming
Environmentalists deploy a new legal tool aimed at limiting carbon dioxide — the Clean Water Act.Commercial aquatic plants offer cost-effective method for treating wastewater
... Agency (EPA) has enforced provisions of the Clean Water Act related to point-source pollution. ... investigated a cost-effective approach of reducing water treatment costs. Instead of traditional wetland ...EPA's stormwater program needs a significant overhaul
... has been difficult. In 1987, Congress brought stormwater control into the Clean Water Act and placed it under the supervision of the Environmental Protection Agency, which now oversees stormwater ...Timetable for Puget Sound restoration suffers setback
... Scientists observed a steady decline in contaminant concentrations after federal regulations, like the Clean Water Act in the late 1960s, were adopted. Similar findings were observed in other marine ...UH team analyzes Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination
... studied pollution in Houston-area bodies of water in partnership with both state and federal authorities ... bodies that do not meet Clean Water Act standards and with ways to address the problem," Rifai ...With 3 new reference materials, NIST gets the dirt on soil
... including those identified as priority pollutants in the Clean Water Act and those specified as hazardous air pollutant ... Air Act. NIST created its first batch of sample soils, which the new SRMs replace ...EPA holds up 79 permits for Appalachian surface mines
... 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny.
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