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Summary of the Clean Water Act from the EPA "Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Handbook." Environmental Law Institute (2nd ed., 2012) NYT Investigation: Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years (2009-09-14) - video report by Democracy Now! Works related to Clean Water Act at Wikisource; EPA programs
The Porter-Cologne Act (California Water Code, Section 7) was created in 1969 and is the law that governs water quality regulation in California. The legislation bears the names of legislators Carley V. Porter and Gordon Cologne. [1] It was established to be a program to protect water quality as well as beneficial uses of water.
The California State Water Resources Control Board's Division of Water Quality and the California Coastal Commission (CCC) designed California's NPS plan pursuant to the CWA and the Federal Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990. [58] California's NPS plan for 1998–2013 states that California, like Indiana, uses a watershed ...
The 1966 Clean Water Restoration Act authorized a study to determine the effects of pollution on wildlife, recreation, and water supplies. The Act also set forth guidelines for abatement of water that may flow into international territory and prohibited the dumping of oil into navigable waters of the United States. [16] The Water Quality ...
The activists — from the organization Environment California — claimed that the port has violated the federal Clean Water Act with more than 2,000 illegal discharges in the past five years ...
1986 – Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) 1987 – Water Quality Act (amended FWPCA of 1972) 1989 – Basel Convention; 1989 – Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting chemicals enters into force. 1990 – Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Set new automobile emissions standards, low-sulfur gas, required Best Available Control ...
California declared access to clean, safe and affordable water a human right in 2012, but the state has faced significant challenges in developing policies and securing adequate funding to bring ...
A proposal to amend California's Constitution to enshrine environmental rights for all citizens has been delayed for at least another year. Should clean air and water be the right of every ...