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 Defend the Clean Water Act and States' Rights to Protect Their Waters Against Invasive Species and Other Pollution!
The Senate Commerce Committee has been working on the Ballast Water Management Act (Senate Bill 1578). The bill would name the Coast Guard as the sole federal authority to continue to administer a ballast water program without the strong enforcement, reporting, funding, and water quality monitoring requirements of the Clean Water Act.
(Aug 28, 2007)
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Ballast Water Management Act of 2007 (S. 1578)
(Aug 28, 2007)
Waterkeeper Alliance’s Water Enforcement Bulletin (Winter 2007)
www.waterkeeper.org
Waterkeeper Alliance’s Water Enforcement Bulletin (WEB) provides an overview of recent legislative activity, proposed and final regulatory changes to the Clean Water Act and other federal statutes, recent developments in case law and other governmental actions, such as federal issuances of Guidance and Policy Directives, all of which impact clean water protection. The WEB keeps local Waterkeeper organizations up-to-date about important environmental enforcement issues, recent trends in policy, and significant legislative action.
(Mar 21, 2007)
Troubled Waters: An Analysis of Clean Water Act Compliance
http://www.uspirg.org/uploads/iN/ZM/iNZM2tGz4x7smwVULhTpow/troubledwaters06.pdf
In October 2006, the U.S. PIRG Education Fund released this report regarding CWA compliance at major facilities.
(Dec 15, 2006)
Assessing State Enforcement: Too Many Claims, Too Little Data
http://www.rffund.org/eip/docs/AssessingStateEnforcement.pdf
(Mar 26, 2004)
In Gross Violation: How Polluters are Flooding America's Waterways with Toxic Chemicals
http://www.pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id2=8258
A recent U.S. PIRG report found that more than 81 percent of U.S. polluters exceeded their Clean Water Act permit limits at least once in the study's three-year period; the average violation was ten times the legal limit.
(Mar 26, 2004)
EPA Enforcement of Criminal Violation from 1991-2002
http://www.peer.org/EPA/EPA_criminal_referrals_graphs.htm
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) releases EPA Enforcement of Criminal Violation from 1991-2002. Their press release says EPA case referrals for Clean Water Act violations dropped 53 percent in President Bush's first year in office.
(Mar 11, 2004)
Permit to Pollute
http://uspirg.org/uspirg.asp?id2=7545&id3=USPIRG&
U.S. PIRG releases their annual report on Clean Water Act enforcement.
(Mar 11, 2004)
Clean Water Enforcement and Compliance Improvement Act of 2002
http://cleanwaternetwork.org/docs/issues/enforcement/shortpallonesumm.pdf
The Clean Water Enforcement and Compliance Improvement Act of 2002 would clarify and strengthen existing enforcement of the Clean Water Act in several ways. The bill would strengthen the polluter pays principle and requires EPA to recover, at a minimum, the violator's economic benefit. It increases EPA’s authority to obtain information from regulated parties, expands the public's access to monitoring and compliance information, and allows EPA to deny permits to "bad actors". The bill reverses bad decisions by Congress and the courts by waiving the immunity of federal facilities with respect to environmental requirements and over-ruling a court decision that said citizen plaintiffs cannot sue if a case only involves "wholly past" violations.
(Mar 11, 2004)
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