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Clean Water Act

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
Jeff Biggers

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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Born in Wartime, Earth Day Unified the Nation

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day, Rachel Carson, Clean Water Act, Epa, Mercury, Ddt, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.

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Don't Take Your Drinking Water for Granted this World Water Day

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: History, World Water Day, Water Pollution, Urban Planning, Clean Water Act, Public Health, Catskills, Natural Gas Drilling, World Water Forum, Drinking Water, New York City, Marcellus Shale, Green News
Scott Dodd

Where does your drinking water come from? Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The ans...

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No More Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Mtr, Coal, Coal Mining, Mountains, Energy, Cleaner Coal, Environmental Protection, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News
Rob Perks

This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

David S. Beckman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Water Resources Control Boards, Environment and Government, California, Water Pollution, Water Pollutants, Water, Clean Water Act, Nature, Clean Water, Environment, Environmentalism, Pollution, Green News
David S. Beckman

The core component of California's Clean Water Act is the issuance of permits -- basically, limitations on the discharge of pollution -- to dischargers of water pollution.

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Brokered California Offshore Drilling Deal Now In Trouble

AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Water, Santa Barbara Spill, Green Politics, Clean Water Act, California, Offshore Drilling, Green News

LOS ANGELES — An agreement paving the way for the first oil drilling off the California coast in nearly 40 years has run into unexpected opposit...

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In With the New

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, George Bush Barack Obama, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael DeJong

Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Groups Sue EPA Over Lax Invasive Species Rules

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Invasive Species, Zebra Mussel, Animals, Ship Discharge, Clean Water Act, Ballast Discharge, Green News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships...

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Farewell to An Environmental Tyrant

Steve Fleischli | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Law Enforcement, Zimbabwe, Water, World Summit, United Nations, George W. Bush, Clean Water Act, Environment, Green, Drinking Water, President Bush, Coal, Bush Legacy, Green News
Steve Fleischli

If you're worried about your legacy, don't be. You've left an environmental burden that will persist in our rivers, lakes and oceans for decades to come.

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Clean Water Act Challenged By Mining Industry

Cindy Letchworth | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Mining, Water, Clean Water Act, Clean Water, Environment, Supreme Court, Green, Conservation, Mine Tailings, Water Erosion, Alaska and Mining, Sarah Palin Environment, Earthjustice, Pebble Mine, Pebble Mine Sarah Palin, George Bush Environment, Green News
Cindy Letchworth

Mine tailings are waste. They are the left-overs after metal separation has occurred. Once the extractions are finished, the rocks remaining are often full of arsenic, lead and cadmium.

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VIDEO: Mountaintop Removal

Assignment Earth | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Surface Mining Act, Bush Administration, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Mining, Clean Water Act, Environment, President Bush, Coal, Green Policy, Green News

New federal mining rules, a parting gift to the coal industry from the Bush administration, will allow mining companies to blast even more mountain pe...

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When I Use a Word, it Means Just What I Choose it to Mean...

Carl Pope | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Epa, Clean Water, Environment, Clean Water Act, Politics News
Carl Pope

Bush has proposed to nullify the Endangered Species Act by drafting a rule specifying that new federal project, which in the real world threaten species habitat, "by definition" do not count as a threat under the Act.

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Progressive Leader Feingold Split Over Clinton, Obama

Post Crescent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Patriot Act, Russ Feingold, Democratic Primary, Feingold-Reid Iraq, No Child Left Behind, Clean Water Act, John Edwards, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Sen. Russ Feingold has a plan. Getting ready to head back to Washington as Congress is about to resume, the Democratic senator from Wisconsin has comp...

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