The Compendium of Approaches to Addressing Water Quality Problems organizes examples of successful water quality restoration efforts, where waters now meet standards or are significantly improved.
Welcome to the Environmental Law Institute’s Resource Library for the listing of impaired waters and development and implementation of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). Please follow the links below to access the noted materials. If you would like to add content to the library, please contact schempp@eli.org.
One of the goals of the original Long-Term Vision for Assessment, Restoration, and Protection under the Clean Water Act Section 303(d) Program is for states to “…review, systematically prioritize, and report priority watersheds or waters for restoration and protection...” The documents detailing how each state and territory is prioritizing its waters or watersheds under the CWA 303(d) Program can be accessed via the links below. For many jurisdictions, this is an ongoing process, and the prioritization framework is not yet complete (and thus not provided), or it is still in draft form.
Zika, lead, bad water quality, and why sex just isn’t so much fun nowadays.
Oliver Houck reviews a tautly told toxic tort tale.
A group of cases shows that food law is the next great area for environmental litigation.
The dangers of climate change are not usually couched in terms of national security, but awareness of the issue is growing rapidly. What could be more basic to security than a climate conducive for agriculture, abundant water supplies, ecosystem health, industrial production, biodiversity, and human comfort? What could be more threatening than extreme weather events or mass migrations because of rising seas and crop failures? The annual ELI-Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum brought together top experts on the topic.
The vast bay and watershed include the largest estuary in the country. Efforts to restore its vastly degraded water quality involve a commensurately large response by the Bay States, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, local governments, and the public.
As tens of billions of dollars are spent over the coming decades to restore the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a variety of mechanisms have been created to ensure responsible stewardship of public resources, natural and monetary.
