Clean Water Act

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First Do No Harm: Connecting The Dots Between Environmentalism And Health Care Reform

John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Toxics, Water, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environment, Health Care Reform, Mercury, Hate Speech, Air Pollution, Pollution, Health Care, Green News

If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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Huerfano County's Contaminated Water Supply Has Gas Company Playing Defense

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Greenhouse Gasses, Facking, Clean Water Act, Huerfano County, Natural Gas, Colorado, Colorado Water Contamination, Denver News

WALSENBURG, Colo. — Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and sh...

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Moment of Clarity -- There's No Way That Is in Our Tap Water

Lee Camp | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New York Times, Lee Camp, Moment of Clarity, Tap Water, Clean Water Act, Comedy News

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EPA Vows Better Enforcement Of Clean Water Act

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Water Pollution, Clean Water Act, Epa, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the ag...

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Clean Water Act Stifling Volunteer Cleanup Efforts

The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Epa, Arkansas River, Pueblo Colorado, Colorado, Pitkin County, Leadville Colorado, Clean Water Act, Mark Udall, Silverton, Uurora Colorado, Denver News

LEADVILLE -- It's a fall morning in the mountains just outside this Lake County town. Contractors in yellow earthmovers are cleaning up acid mine drai...

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Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink...

Carl Pope | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Clean Water, Water Pollution, Water, Toxic Water, Clean Water Act, Green News

There won't be less water in a warmer world -- total global precipitation may increase. But the water will come at less predictable times, with more droughts and floods, and overall greater extremes.

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Take Back the Tap and Keep Supporting Municipal Water Systems

Robin Madel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Safety, New York Times, Toxic Water, Lisa P. Jackson, The EPA, Bottled Water, Clean Water Act, Green News

A recent New York Times article might give some people the impression that tap water is not always safe. Before consumers rush to buy with bottle water, there are a few points to consider.

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Water Still Matters

Ralph D'Andrea | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil and Gas, Hydrofracturing, Junction Daily Blog, Safe Drinking Water, Poll, Survey, Water Quality, Colorado Politics, Clean Water Act, Josh Penry, Denver News

The oil and gas industry is exempt from complying with the Safe Drinking Water Act -- and they're lying about a new poll that proves Coloradans want regulation.

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Western Slope Politicians Squabble After Poll Shows Support For FRAC-act

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction, Josh Penry, Diana DeGette, John Salazar, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Michael Bennet, Fracking, Clean Water Act, Denver News

Voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District a month ago favored legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate hyd...

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Colorado Department of Public Health Blasted For Failure To Cooperate With New York Times

Th Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Epa, Colorado Ethics Watch, New York Times, Clean Water Act, Colorado Department of Public Health, Denver News

Thirty-nine states provided information requested by the New York Times as part of its series on Clean Water Act violations called "Toxic Waters: A se...

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Coal Slurry Smiles: NY Times Nails Clean Water Act Crimes and Punishment

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Epa, Appalachia, NY Times, Coal Slurry, Water, Disease, West Virginia, Clean Water Act, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Joe Manchin, Coal, Green News

Duhigg's portrait of the Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia--and the indifference of state agencies--blew the cover on one of the worst kept secrets in Appalachia.

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The EPA Must Respond to Toxic Water

Suzy Shuster | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: West Virginia Coal, New York Times, Toxic Water, Charles Duhigg, Clean Water Act, Green News

Why would I feel the EPA is going to act swiftly to save these thousands of people across the country who live at the mercy of the evil and despicable polluters that hide under the umbrella of Big Business?

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Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Neglected At A Cost To Health

The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Lead, Baths, Municipalities, Rashes, Health, Toxic Water, Wells, Clean Water Act, Heavy Metals, Barium, Epa, Clean Water Act Violations, Showers, Manganese, Pollutants, Arsenic, Water Utilities, Public Health, Sewage, Drinking Water, Green News

Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...

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EPA: Pending Mountaintop Removal Permits Would Likely Violate Clean Water Act

Bruce Nilles | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Sierra Club, Epa, Clean Water Act, Green News

For the eight years of the Bush Administration, permits were being issued that violated the Clean Water Act, but EPA was prevented from objecting. Clearly there is a new sheriff in town.

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Policies Can Work in Strange Ways

Robert Stavins | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Regulation, Climate Change, Chlorine, Green Jobs, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Green News

Environmental regulation does affect technological change, but not in the way many people assume it does

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Cleaning Up After Clementine

Carl Pope | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Salazar, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News

Mining's had a century-and-a-half exemption from having to keep up with environmental standards. Now Interior Secretary Salazar has announced that he wants reform.

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Historic Senate Hearings on Clean Water Protection Act Today: We All Live Downstream

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Maria Gunnoe, Us Sen. Benjamin Carden, Dirty Coal, Clean Water Protection Act, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Senator Robert Byrd, Goldman Prize, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News

Over 1,300 miles of streams have been sullied and jammed by mountaintop removal operations. Over 500 mountains have been blown to bits.

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Supreme Court OKs Dumping Mining Waste In Lakes

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, Lower Slate Lake, Gold Mining Company, Dump, Gold Mining, Supreme Court Ruling, Mining, Coeur Alaska Inc, Clean Water Act, Lakes, Green News

WASHINGTON — A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on Monday to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acr...

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Remember the Cuyahoga

Carl Pope | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, Cuyahoga River, Lower Slate Lake, Kensington Gold Mind, Water Pollution, Epa, Clean Water Act, Green News

Monday was the 40th anniversary of the environmental disaster that gave America the Clean Water Act -- the day the Cuyahoga River caught fire.

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Mixed Bag on MTR Coal Mining Decision From Obama Administration

Bruce Nilles | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Mtr, Coal, Sierra Club, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Clean Water Act, Green News

If the Obama administration allows hundreds of mountaintop-removal coal mining permits to go forward, it will result in the outright destruction of hundreds of miles of streams and forests in Appalachia.

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Sotomayor's "Green" Decision

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, Environment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Water Act, Sonia Sotomayor, Green News

Judge Sonia Sotomayor's paper trail on the environment is slim, but one decision has drawn praise from environmentalists, and some concerns from business.

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America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help

Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.

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Breaking: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Epa, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Flooding, Waterboarding, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Nick Rahall, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News

Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, a human rights violation and it must be abolished, not regulated.

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