skip to main content

Natural Resources Defense Council

Switchboard

Jon Devine's Blog

Tags: wetlands

Good News on the Water Front

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

Beating A Dead Zone

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

The Little River That Could

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