Overview of Environmental Laws and Regulations
Author | : Joseph J. Bernosky |
Publisher | : American Water Works Association |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1613001231 |
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Author | : Joseph J. Bernosky |
Publisher | : American Water Works Association |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1613001231 |
Author | : Mark Ryan |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590312179 |
Provides a clearly presented overview of the law's provisions and pertient regulation and enforcement issues.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Water |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008-02-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0309177812 |
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2001-11-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309133025 |
Recognizing the importance of wetland protection, the Bush administration in 1988 endorsed the goal of "no net loss" of wetlands. Specifically, it directed that filling of wetlands should be avoided, and minimized when it cannot be avoided. When filling is permitted, compensatory mitigation must be undertaken; that is, wetlands must be restored, created, enhanced, and, in exceptional cases, preserved, to replace the permitted loss of wetland area and function, such as water quality improvement within the watershed. After more than a dozen years, the national commitment to "no net loss" of wetlands has been evaluated. This new book explores the adequacy of science and technology for replacing wetland function and the effectiveness of the federal program of compensatory mitigation in accomplishing the nation's goal of clean water. It examines the regulatory framework for permitting wetland filling and requiring mitigation, compares the mitigation institutions that are in use, and addresses the problems that agencies face in ensuring sustainability of mitigated wetlands over the long term. Gleaning lessons from the mixed results of mitigation efforts to date, the book offers 10 practical guidelines for establishing and monitoring mitigated wetlands. It also recommends that federal, state, and local agencies undertake specific institutional reforms. This book will be important to anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the "no net loss" issue: policy makers, regulators, environmental scientists, educators, and wetland advocates.
Author | : Kenneth M. Vigil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780870714986 |
There are sections on drinking water and a concluding chapter entitled "Getting Personal about Clean Water" about citizen involvement at home and in the community."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : William Goldfarb |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-08-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1000157512 |
This revised second edition is essential to everyone involved with water and water resources-complying with the myriad federal, state, and local laws and regulations that govern the use and management of water in our attempts to maintain, clean, usable water. It includes the law of water diversion and distribution; water resources development and protection; water treatment and land use; ocean dumping; oil and hazardous substances cleanup; riparian and non-riparian systems; Eastern permit systems; beneficial use; water codes; prior appropriation; surface and ground water; channel modifications; municipal water supply; irrigation; California Water Management Districts; Bureau of Reclamation; Corps of Engineers; Water Resources Development Act of 1986; SCS, TVA, BPA, NEA, CERCLA, CWA, SDWA, RCRA, and their substantial changes in the last four years; water resources planning and research; public use; ownership of beds and banks; wild and scenic rivers; river corridor and instream flow protection; flood insurance, Section 404 and Section 208; the Supreme Court and water conservation; heat dischargers; quality-based effluent limitations; state ground water programs; pretreatment; funding; enforcement; citizen suits; and many more vital topics.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160860126 |