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The familiar murkiness of waters in the Gulf of Mexico can be off-putting for beachgoers visiting Galveston Island. Runoff from the Mississippi River makes its way to local beaches and causes downstream water to turn opaque and brown. Mud is one factor, and river runoff is another. However, concern tends to ratchet up a notch when pollution enters the river runoff discussion on a national scale, specifically when smaller, navigable intrastate bodies of water push pollution into larger interstate waters often involved in commerce (i.e. the Mississippi River, Great Lakes, Ohio River).
Filling Federal Oversight Gaps
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A water rule that turns a blind eye to transboundary pollution
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The Swamp School Launches Cloud-based Antecedent Precipitation Tool (APT) New Wetlands Delineation Tool Released
February 09, 2021 09:00 ET | Source: Swamp School Swamp School
ANGIER, N.C., Feb. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Swamp School LLC, the gold standard of training and certifications for government agencies and clients in the private sector seeking to advance their wetland careers, has developed a cloud-based Antecedent Precipitation Tool (APT).
The new APT tool is designed to meet the requirements of the 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which updates the definition of jurisdictional waters in the U.S. A significant part of this definition requires the user to limit their wetland delineation work to typical rainfall years.
President Biden Executive Orders Rollback of Anti-Environmental Regulatory Actions
Several key water rules and actions that we opposed over the last four years are included in the Biden ordered reviews.
January 29, 2021
American Rivers sees the first one hundred days of the new Biden Administration as an opportunity for real change in protecting our Nation’s waters and water resources. In our 2021 Blueprint for Action , we identify overturning or reversing the anti-water protection regulations and actions of the past four years as a top priority for our engagement with the Biden Administration.
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