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| Water Quality Standards: News |
 NRDC Testing the Waters 2008
http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/ttw2008.pdf
NRDC's annual report of the water quality and public notifications of U.S. beaches came out recently with shocking discoveries. They found that pollution caused the second-highest level of beach closings and advisories in the report's 18 years. This has been caused by aging and poorly designed sewage and stormwater systems across America's coasts.
(Jul 31, 2008)
AMERICAN RIVERS-NOAA PARTNERSHIP NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR RIVER RESTORATION GRANTS
American Rivers seeks proposals for river restoration project grants as part of its partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Community-based Restoration Program. Program funding is provided through NOAA's Open Rivers Initiative, which seeks to enable environmental and economic renewal in local communities through the removal of stream barriers.
(Mar 17, 2008)
EPA’s Proposed “Water Transfer” Rule Allows Polluters to Divert their Pollution without a Permit
EPA no longer plans to regulate dischargers that move water from one place to another no matter how polluted the transferred water is. On June 1st, EPA proposed a rule that will allow dischargers who transfer or discharge water from one body of water into another to do so without a NPDES permit. This rule essentially allows polluters to take dirty, polluted water and pump it into clean water without being regulated.
(Jul 23, 2007)
EPA’s Plan to Revise Selenium Standard Could Lead More Polluted Waters and Harm to Fish, Wildlife, and People
CWN encourages members interested in commenting on EPA's plan to revise the selenium standard from a water quality standard to a fish tissue standard to get invovled.
(Jul 23, 2007)
Victory for Clean Water in New Mexico!
In a complete rejection of an industry lawsuit against the State of New Mexico, the New Mexico State Court of Appeals issued a 3-0 judicial opinion affirming New Mexico’s right to protect all of its state waters.
(May 30, 2007)
Clean Water Network Groups Send Comments to EPA to Dump the Polluted Pumping Rule
Forty-four environmental organizations and community groups submitted a set of comments to EPA advocating that the agency halt moving forward with its plans to finalize a rule that would allow polluted water to be dumped directly into clean water resources without a permit or any restriction.
(Aug 24, 2006)
Request for Proposals for The Mississippi River Water Quality Collaborative's Water Quality Standards Workgroup
The Mississippi River Water Quality Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) is a group of state, regional and national non-profit organizations working together to improve water quality in the Mississippi River basin. The Collaborative is seeking a contractor with technical expertise in state and federal water quality criteria to review the numeric criteria of the main-stem Mississippi River states, and to assess the sufficiency of those criteria. Main-stem states include: Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
(Aug 10, 2006)
Sample Pollution Pumping Comment Letter
Please download and use this sample comment letter to tell EPA to withdraw its dangerous Pollution Pumping rule
(Jul 26, 2006)
Upcoming Meeting: July 31- Multi-Stakeholders' Public Meeting on Designated Uses and August 1 Use Attainability Analyses in Seattle, Washington
(Jun 30, 2006)
CWN Nutrient Standards Letter to EPA (March 2004)
(Apr 21, 2004)
U.S. EPA and the states are developing water quality criteria
U.S. EPA and the states are developing water quality criteria for one of the nation's leading pollution problems -- nutrients. View a state nutrient criteria development chart (PDF file provided by U.S. EPA) that shows where each state is in developing a nutrient criteria plan.
(Apr 14, 2004)
Bush EPA Proposing Water Protections Rollback
The Bush EPA is proposing to roll back protection of water quality provided by the Clean Water Act. It has published a proposed rule for Oregon water quality standards that is the harbinger of Administration plans for the national rule on cleaning up polluted waters: the "watershed rule."
(Apr 14, 2004)
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