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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).
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
Some states have adopted legislation similar to existing legislation in other states, and Congress has recently considered several bills to regulate e-waste, perhaps as a result of pioneering state regulation. States have also used litigation to force federal regulation.
It is currently looking to grow its restaurant base by at least 17% next year, and has discussed 15% yearly unit growth in the past. This gives it a long runway of future expansion growth.
The role private water systems can and should play in meeting the demands of Georgia’s growing population will be the focus of a legislative study committee that will begin meeting next week.
Piedmont Water Co., the state’s second-largest private water system, is charging the second-highest water rates in Georgia, lower only than the private system serving the community of Big Canoe ...
Georgia has plentiful water assets. Among the aggregate water assets of 63 trillion cubic metres (2.2 × 10 ^ 15 cu ft) /year (long haul normal) just 1.6 billion m3/year or around 2% are being preoccupied. [7] Around 66% of the disconnected water is utilized for inundated horticulture, and the other third for city and mechanical employments. [8]
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 ...