This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The first two steps in the CWA section 404 sequencing process have received far less attention at a national level. This study looks at how the avoidance and minimization requirements are applied by permitting officials in state and federal regulatory and resource agencies, where they find weaknesses, and how the process could be improved.
Recent Supreme Court rulings have called into question federal Clean Water Act coverage for certain wetlands and streams. Legislation recently introduced in the House of Representatives would amend the Act to restate and clarify Congress’s intent to regulate the waters of the United States to the fullest extent of its legislative power. The Environmental Law Institute has issued a new white paper that identifies which constitutional powers Congress can rely on to protect the Nation’s waters, and explains in straightforward language what the Supreme Court has said about these powers.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report compares state numeric water quality criteria to recommended criteria and related standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
This report (1) details the impact that water quantity law and practice has had on water quality, and likewise water quality rules on water quantity management; (2) analyzes the legal authorities of states and the federal government over water quantity and quality, respectively, and briefly recaps the current state of takings law relevant to appropriative rights and the Clean Water Act; and (3) identifies laws, policies, government structures, and other factors that can advance relationships between, and ultimately the outcomes for, water quality and quantity management.
