Tag: clean water act
Steve Marshall leads effort to protect states’ rights, prevent TVA rate...
Alabama is leading the fight against a federal court ruling that would undercut state authority to regulate its own groundwaters and would result in debt...
Donald Trump executive order targets clean water rule, Alabamians react
President Donald Trump's latest executive order rolls back a controversial Obama-era water regulation that designates what smaller bodies of water, tributaries and wetlands are under...
Federal judge OKs $20 billion settlement from 2010 BP oil spill
A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the...
Opening statements to begin in trial of former BP rig supervisor
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for a Deepwater Horizon rig supervisor are ready to tell jurors what they expect to prove as 65-year-old Robert Kaluza...
Alabama reacts to courts’ stay of controversial EPA water regulation
A U.S. federal appeals court temporarily halted the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday from implementing the “Waters of the United States," a controversial regulation of the...
Martha Roby: Court halts EPA rule
Good news: the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has halted an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to expand its reach into private...
Landmark settlement with BP over 2010 Gulf oil spill finalized
The Justice Department and five states have finalized a settlement worth more than $20 billion arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in...
Walker says EPA should be limited “umbrella organization”
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said Monday he would shift most of the responsibilities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to state-based regulators, leaving...
Gov. Robert Bentley says BP settlement won’t fix state budget
Alabama will receive about $2.3 billion in a settlement with BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Gov. Robert Bentley said Thursday.
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AL congressional delegation disagrees with new EPA Clean Water Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a new plan Wednesday to expand the Clean Water Act to include more bodies of water.
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