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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of topics on which environmental organizations focus. Agriculture. ... Water pollution; Water treatment ...
Environmental cleanup laws govern the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, sediment, surface water, or ground water.Unlike pollution control laws, cleanup laws are designed to respond after-the-fact to environmental contamination, and consequently must often define not only the necessary response actions, but also the parties who may be responsible for ...
The legislation created programs to help municipalities clean up local waters. Shortly after passage, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created. From that point on, Environmental Protection Agency and National Association of Clean Water Agencies worked together to clean up water pollution in the Nation’s cities.
One Drop [11] is an international non-profit organization created by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, focused on water initiatives. Pump Aid-Water for Life [12] Registered in the UK in 1998. UK-based NGO brings a new approach to aid and uses small-business models to work with entrepreneurs and communities so they can reach a point of ...
The United States Congress has enacted federal statutes intended to address pollution control and remediation, including for example the Clean Air Act (air pollution), the Clean Water Act (water pollution), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) (contaminated site cleanup).
water pollution 2000 United States Mayapuri: radioactive contamination 1986 India Minamata Bay mercury poisoning cause of Minamata disease: 1932-68 Japan Mobro 4000 garbage barge 1987 United States Munisport: United States Radioactive waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta: radioactive waste Italy Saint John, New Brunswick harbour cleanup: sewerage ...
Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...
Clean Water Action has endorsed both causes and political actors. In 2008, Clean Water Action and Earth Justice brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for not complying with state and federal water protection laws by allowing partially treated fracking wastewater to be discharged into the Monongahela River.