On July 6, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the case of American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA (No. 13-4079). The ruling, which affirmed an earlier district decision ...

On July 6, 2015, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously rejected a challenge brought by agricultural and builder groups to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

TMDL stands for “Total Maximum Daily Load,” a program in the Clean Water Act. In the case of the bay, the TMDL requires the six Bay states — Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia ...

The newest draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement lacks meaningful pollution reduction targets and allows states to evade legal accountability, according to concerned environmental advocates ...

Water quality assessment is a continuous process. The finding of an impaired waterbody during assessment triggers a sequence of events that may include listing of the water, development of a Total ...

A major component of the plan is the establishment of a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) standard, a pollution budget, for nutrients. A new phase of New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay protection plan will ...

One could argue, we suppose, that there’s a method to the bureaucratic madness of requiring municipal stormwater permit holders to reduce contaminants in 11 Mesa County washes that drain into the ...

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall has been approved for coverage under the Virginia Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) general permit for discharges of stormwater from the JBM-HH base ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...