#regulatorycapture: #CohoSalmon devastated since the mid-20th century by a combination of human #development, #damming, #habitatloss and #changingclimate and #ocean conditions. #TribalNations from CA and WA submitted a #petition through the #Earthjustice environmental group calling on the #EPA to prohibit the production of #6PPD.
#AB756 #RemoveRoads #BigAgro ##CleanWaterAct

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/09/california-regulators-seek-replacement-of-tire-chemical-linked-to-fish-kills/?share=eeskllrlseinsfioieci

#SupremeCourt rules #EPA was overstepping its authority under #CleanWaterAct

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-07-supreme-court-scales-back-epa-power.html

For decades, wetlands adjacent to protected waters had been covered under the #CleanWaterAct.

But now #SCOTUS has stripped away those protections and put #wetlands across the US—and around #SFBay—at risk, as Baykeeper Executive Director Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes in her latest column: https://baykeeper.org/news/column/supreme-court-muddies-our-waters
#BayArea #waterpollution #SanFranciscoBay

Today's #SCOTUS ruling will jeopardize the health of #SFBay, lead to a nationwide patchwork of sacrifice zones, and invite regulatory chaos, as Baykeeper attorney Eric Buescher says in our statement on the ruling: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/scotus-ruling-weakens-clean-water-act #WOTUS #CleanWaterAct

Who needs clean water & air, right?? And if you don't like NY Times, just scroll on by because I do like NY Times and will post articles if I choose. Thank you.
"The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police water pollution, ruling that the Clean Water Act does not allow the agency to regulate discharges into some wetlands near bodies of water.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for five justices, held that the law covers only wetlands “with a continuous surface connection” to those waters.

The decision was a second major blow to the E.P.A.’s authority and to the power of administrative agencies generally. Last year, the court limited the E.P.A.’s power to address climate change under the Clean Air Act."
#FuckScotus #CleanWaterAct #CleanAirAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html

“The SCOTUS decision in the Sackett case has been published. Not a good day for wetlands, clean water, or public health.

"Wetlands that are separate from traditional navigable waters cannot be considered part of those waters, even if they are located nearby.”

"In sum, we hold that the CWA extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right,” so that they are “indistinguishable” from those waters."” via National Association of Wetland Managers
#CleanWaterAct #CWA #waterquality #water #wetlands #scotus #sackett

https://lnkd.in/gZP-srhk

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-association-of-wetland-managers_21-454-sackett-v-epa-05252023-activity-7067514691282972672-Dz17?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

‘Cop City’ opposition spreads beyond Georgia forest defenders

"The DeKalb county commissioner, Ted Terry, whose district includes the South River forest, and #environmentalist Jackie Echols, of the South River #Watershed Alliance, say they have been rebuffed or ignored in attempts to have the county reject #Atlanta’s applications for permits to begin construction of the training center, due to alleged violations of the #CleanWaterAct the project would incur.

"The county approved the “land disturbance permit” anyway last week. The Atlanta mayor, Andre Dickens, and the DeKalb county CEO, Michael Thurmond, held a press conference without advising Terry of the decision in advance. “I’m being boxed out of the process,” said Terry, a former state director of the #SierraClub.

"Dickens and Thurmond referred several times to a committee meant to represent communities surrounding the forest, which are mostly #Black, with large shares of #LowIincome residents. [#EnvironmentalRacism]

"But the permit approval led a member of the same committee to file an appeal seeking to stop the project this week, also calling it a violation of the Clean Water Act.

"Meanwhile, another member has resigned in protest of the killing of #Tortuguita.
Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.
‘#Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting #Georgia’s ‘#CopCity’

"Tortuguita had been staying in South River forest for about six months, at times in tree houses, when dozens of officers swept through the forest on 18 January. The activist was one of dozens of “forest defenders” who formed part of a loose coalition of people trying to protect the forest.

"At least 85 acres of the #forest
is under threat from the training center, while another 40 acres is under threat from Ryan Millsap, former owner of Blackhall Film Studios, who made a deal with DeKalb county to swap the forest land for another parcel."

#SaveWeelauneeForest #StopCopCity

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/cop-city-opposition-georgia

Creeks & streams swollen by recent storms are a perfect example of what the #CleanWaterAct was designed to protect -- an interlaced web of sometimes seasonal waterways that flow into #SFBay 🌊

But a new case before the Supreme Court may make it harder to protect seasonal waters: https://abc7news.com/federal-clean-water-act-san-francisco-bay-pollution-california-environmental-protection-agency-area-wetlands/12689992/ #sanfranciscobay #CWA #rainstorms #rain #wotus #scotus

Stormwater #C3, an outcome of #NPDES through the #CleanWaterAct, are guidelines that allow staff to accommodate developers but reflect the pre #ClimateChange era, is the cause of the runoff in the #NewNormal from accumulated hardscape that raises the drainage point to the watershed’s outlet i.e. flood. https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/California-flood-17368353.php

Stormwater #C3, an outcome of #NPDES through the #CleanWaterAct, are guidelines that allow staff to accommodate developers but reflect the pre #ClimateChange era- and are the cause the runoff in the #NewNormal from accumulated hardscape that raises the drainage point to the watershed’s outlet i.e. flood. https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/California-flood-17368353.php

@barrososemminas thanks to the #CleanWaterAct, the #EPA & state #environmental laws, tailings ponds were moved to an existing site, the open pit changed to an underground mine & various other limitations enforced. #OHA monitors & sues the owners. What environmental laws does Portugal have? https://www.fox28spokane.com/gold-mining-company-violates-law-more-than-3000-times-in-okanogan-county/?fbclid=IwAR24p5xdWkOqugYJ6fqy-mNCQhX4fALaMuC9xFEI0TJl-b0IXnCiEIBWl44&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Commentary today from writer Ted Rulseh: We need a new #CleanWaterAct, but until we can get one, a Clean Water Alliance could band together to protect our North Woods lakes. #WisconsinExaminer.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/10/31/protecting-our-inland-lakes-the-case-for-a-new-clean-water-act/