Category: Clean Water Act

New Center Wants to Fight Wildfires by Fixing Bad Laws

September 23, 2022
Business & MarketsClean Water Actcongresseconomic policiesEnvironmentforest managementPolicies & ImpactsPoliticspropertyScienceUSUS Newswildfires
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The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) has launched a new conservation law and policy center that aims to promote good stewardship of the land without compromising private landowners’ property rights, including by cutting red tape to lower the risk of wildfires. Jonathan Wood, PERC’s legal director, told The Epoch Times in a Sept. 22…

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Biden Administration to Reverse Trump-Era Water Rule That Kept States from Blocking Energy Projects

June 4, 2022
Business & EconomyClean Water ActeconomyExecutive BranchPoliticsSection 401USUS News
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The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would give states more power to oppose energy projects and other infrastructure through control of water quality permits, rolling back a Trump-era regulation that made it harder for such projects to be blocked. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on June 2 that it has put…

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Former Trump EPA Official Questions Court Order Striking Down Key Water Rule

September 11, 2021
American Farm Bureau FederationClean Water Actclean water rulesDonald TrumpEnvironmentEnvironmental Protection AgencyNational NewsNational Resources Defense CouncilPoliticsScienceUSUS News
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On Aug. 30, Judge Rosemary Márquez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, an Obama administration appointee, remanded and vacated the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), drawing criticism from a former Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official and Senate Republicans. The NWPR had replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean…

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