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September 14, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, enforcement, waterpollution, waterprogram
It was great to see Charles Duhigg's article about under-enforcement of water pollution laws yesterday. Quite apart from the water angle, which we obviously care a whole lot about, it was wonderful to see that good print journalism is still...continued→
September 1, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, deadzone, gulf, mississippiriver, nutrientpollution, water, waterpollution, waterprogram
I recently attended a conference about the health of the Mississippi River, and I was struck by a compelling analogy my colleague Matt Rota of the Gulf Restoration Network used to describe the giant Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The...continued→
August 11, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, mountaintopremoval, waterprogram
One of the great things about our country is that the government often must give the public the opportunity to comment on something it is planning on doing, and then must actually consider those comments in making its final decision. ...continued→
June 18, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, water, waterprogram
Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Clean Water Restoration Act, a landmark bill that will reinstate Clean Water Act protections against umpermitted dumping of pollution, filling, or destruction for a host of water bodies jeopardized by a pair of...continued→
April 14, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, water, waterpollution, waterprogram
The title of this post is stolen from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used the line during a recent public appearance. (Click here, then click on the player button to watch it; the relevant discussion begins at about 15:40.) Administrator Jackson was...continued→
April 2, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, supremecourt, water, waterpollution, waterprogram, wetlands
It's a good day. Today, Senator Russ Feingold and 23 additional Senators joined to introduce the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009, a bill that would ensure that the Clean Water Act applies to protect a host of water bodies that...continued→
March 20, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, waterprogram, worldwaterday
World Water Day is Sunday. Because I work in NRDC's Water Program, my colleague Melanie Nakagawa encouraged me to offer my two drops, as it were, about the domestic fresh water issues on which we focus. This isn't as easy...continued→
February 12, 2009
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- anacostia, stormwater, trash, water, waterprogram
Almost every day, I bike to work. On the bike path, I get a close-up view of the Potomac River, which makes up the boundary between Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Though it has improved dramatically since the Clean Water Act...continued→
November 25, 2008
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- armycorpsofengineers, cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, EPA, greeninfrastructure, greentransition, mountaintopremoval
As many of my colleagues are describing today, NRDC and a host of partner groups in the environmental, conservation, and public health community have created a document, called "Transition to Green," which lays out a detailed set of policies that we...continued→
October 22, 2008
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, deadzone, nutrientpollution, wetlands
A new report released today by NRDC brings together recent information about a widespread pollution problem in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico and calls attention to a legal controversy that has made it more difficult to protect resources...continued→
July 30, 2008
Posted by Jon Devine
- Tags:
- dead, gulf, mexico, simplesteps, zone
This week brought news that the Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone,” an area of water with very low oxygen that forms each year, was the second biggest on record. That’s not good news for the critters of the Gulf, which find...continued→
November 30, 2007
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
Recently, I've been thinking a lot about "The Lorax," Dr. Seuss's brilliant and unbelievably forward-thinking book about ecology, pollution, greed, and (ultimately) redemption. You see, my 8-year-old is in his school production of a musical based on the book and,...continued→
October 18, 2007
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution
Today, the Clean Water Act turns 35 years old. How 'bout a round of song?Happy Birthday to you/Happy Birthday to you/Happy Birthday Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972/Happy Birthday to you! (For extra measure, my kids would chime in...continued→
October 16, 2007
Posted by Jon Devine in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- cleanwateract, cleanwaterrestorationact, CWA, isolatedwaterbodies, non-navigablewaterbodies, rivers, supremecourt, waterpollution, wetlands
When I was a kid, even though I lived only a couple of miles from the ocean, the most important water body I could imagine was The River. Hardly even a stream, The River was located beyond The Pit in...continued→