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Clean water in the slums of East Africa

open access: yesInsights into Regional Development, 2022
Researchers on human security now know that science has to deal with the water issues of our planet, which significantly determines the sense of security of human life. Where is no water, there is no life, so safety is lost.
Tampu Stelian, Peter Gergo Juhasz
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The widespread and unjust drinking water and clean water crisis in the United States

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Many households in the United States face issues of incomplete plumbing and poor water quality. Prior scholarship on this issue has focused on one dimension of water hardship at a time, leaving the full picture incomplete.
J. Tom Mueller, Stephen Gasteyer
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Description of Enhanced-Efficiency Fertilizers for Use in Vegetable Production

open access: yesEDIS, 2014
In response to the Federal Clean Water Act of 1972 and the Florida Restoration Act of 1999, a series of best management practices (BMPs) was implemented to improve surface and ground water quality. BMPs are cultural practices that, when implemented as a
Luther Carson, Monica Ozores-Hampton
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Comparing Clean Water Act Section 316(b) Policy Options

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2002
This paper develops a comparative framework for policy proposals involving fish protection and Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Section 316(b) addresses the impingement and entrainment of fish by cooling-water intake structures used ...
John Kadvany
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Evaluating environmental permitting process duration: the case of clean water act Section 404 permits

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2019
Permits are a critical tool for ensuring that infrastructure projects provide the benefits they promise without harming nearby people or the environment.
N. Ulibarri, Jiarui Tao
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A Guide to Monetary Sanctions for Environment Violations by Federal Facilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Many federal environmental statutes require compliance by federal agencies by providing waivers of sovereign immunity. This Article explores the availability of civil penalties against the United States through an analysis of three United States Supreme ...
Green, Charles L.
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Multiple Environmental Externalities and Manure Management Policy

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007
This paper considers the economic and environmental implications of regulating water and air nitrogen emissions under single and multi-environmental media policies in the U.S. hog industry.
Nigel D. Key, Jonathan D. Kaplan
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Biden’s Burden: Cleaning up Trump’s environmental mess

open access: yesOpolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, 2021
Before the US can make progress on climate policy or environmental policy more generally, the new administration of President Joseph R. Biden must first undo the damage created by his predecessor in office, who dismantled existing US climate policy ...
Daniel H. Cole
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Medical Waste, a Loaded Gun on the Verge of Firing: United States v. Plaza Health Laboratories, Inc. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This Case Note examines United States v. Plaza Health, a Court of Appeals decision from the Second Circuit, in which the court held that, in the criminal context, a person is not a point source under the Clean Water Act by virtue of the rule of lenity ...
Babigian, Ann M.
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Thermal effluent from the power sector: an analysis of once-through cooling system impacts on surface water temperature

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2013
In this study, we review federal datasets to assess the impacts of once-through power plant cooling systems on summer freshwater temperatures in the United States from 1996 to 2005.
N Madden, A Lewis, M Davis
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