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Advertisement Top Ten Tips for Seeking Enforcement Discretion and Preserving a Weather Disaster Force Majeure Affirmative Defense before the TCEQ Tuesday, March 2, 2021 The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has taken various actions and posted guidance to help regulated entities address operational issues and environmental noncompliance that resulted from power outages, water supply disruptions, and other weather-triggered challenges from the extended period of sub-fr...

The head of state meets with deputies of the Mejlis Politics Published 25.02.2021 2711 February 25, the Rukhyet Palace. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has met with the countrys parliamentary corps, at which the tasks of National parliament as well as the priority areas of legislative work at the next stage of development of the independent Turkmen state in the era of power...

New DRBC Regulation Prohibits High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing In The Delaware River Basin Wastewater Importation and Water Exportation Rule Amendments to be Proposed West Trenton, NJ -- The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) today approved a final rule prohibiting high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the Basin. In a separate action, the Commissioners directed the executive director to propose amendments to update the Commission’s rules concerning importation of wastewater from outs...

Published February 3, 2021, 6:42 PM The chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development has sought a congressional inquiry into the alleged questionable grant of water rights to a private firm over Wawa river in Rodriguez, Rizal. Manila Rep. Manuel Luis T. Lopez warned that this could impede the development of Wawa dam as an alternative water source for Metro Manila. Wawa dam, together with  the Laguna Lake, is among the possible sources of potable water that government will tap in...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A California Court of Appeal invalidated a wastewater discharge permit issued by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board that the court found impermissibly delegated to the Board’s executive officer the authority to modify effluent limits under the permit. Malaga County Water Dist. v. Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, 58 Cal.App.5th 396 (2020). The federal Clean Water Act and California Porter-Col...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 17, 2020, the Sacramento County Superior Court substantially limited the scope of waters to which the State Procedures for Discharges of Dredged and Fill Material (“Procedures”) apply through its decision in San Joaquin Tributaries Authority v. State Water Resources Control Board (Case No. 34-2019-80003133). According to the Court, the State Water Resources Control Board (“State Water Board”) exceeded its policy-m...

California Water Commission Accepting Info For Water Storage Projects The California Water Commission (Commission) is accepting screening information for water storage projects that provide Proposition 1, Chapter 8 public benefits in the Water Storage Investment Program. This process does not involve any immediate funding. If the Commission finds a project is feasible, the project would be included in a pool of projects for the Commission’s consideration if funding becomes available. The ...

In an opinion filed on December 29, 2020, the First Appellate District in Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board upheld a Responsible Agency’s imposition of additional mitigation more than a year after it had issued an initial approval for the project.  Although the court was careful to say that it was addressing “unique circumstances” that would “seldom arise,” the decision is potentially problematic for project proponents, and e...

With Lake Baikal’s Key Protections Set to Expire, Russian Eco-Activists Sound the Alarm Environmental experts and activists say upcoming deregulation could do significant harm to the lakes unique ecosystem. Dec. 21, 2020 Located in southeast Siberia, Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest and oldest lake as well as the world’s largest lake by volume, containing about 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater reserve. Wikicommons ...

02.12.2020 15:12 7620 Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea is being introduced into the legislation of Kazakhstan. Members of the Kazakh Mazhilis approved amendments in the first reading. Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi noted that the convention signed two years ago and ratified last year by presidents of five Caspian states is the result of a long and complex negotiation process that lasted more than 20 years. Thus, the countr...