clean water act

The Southern Environmental Law Center on Monday filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Coosa Riverkeeper against Newcastle Homes.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, and Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, on Tuesday introduced companion bills in the House and Senate to help families pay for replacement or repair of aging wastewater systems.  The bills are an expansion of work already done by both Alabama lawmakers to improve access to water and make fixes to aging … Continued

Drummond Company has been found to be violating the Clean Water Act by continuously discharging acid amid mine drainage into the Black Warrior River’s Locust Fork from the Maxine Mine site. Judge Abdul Kallon rejected Drummond’s arguments that the Clean Water Act does not prohibit ongoing pollution originating from a substantial coal mine waste pile … Continued

Black Warrior Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 27, 2019, in an effort to ensure the protection Black Warrior River’s watersheds by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. ADEM dropped Lost Creek and Big Yellow Creek from the state’s Section 303(d) List, which features and describes bodies of water in … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter For decades the waters of the US was defined as navigable bodies of water. To expand the government’s powers to regulate water under the Clean Water Act, President Barack H. Obama redefined the term “waters of the US” to be just about any ditch or drainage. On March 1, … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, October 9, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a nationwide stay blocking President Obama’s EPA’s Waters of the US rule.  A group of 18 states had sued to block the controversial reinterpretation of existing law, arguing the rule is well beyond EPA’s legal authority to issue. … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, August 28, Federal Judge Ralph R. Erickson granted an injunction to states suing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA), and the US Army Corps of Engineers, for an effort to dramatically expand federal power and authority over the American economy, by redefining their authority to include private ponds … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, August 28, a federal judge issued an injunction on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers’ effort to dramatically expand its power and authority, by redefining its authority to include private ponds and drainage ditches. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) applauded … Continued