| Title |
Potential Implications of Approaches to Climate Change on the Clean Water Rule Definition of “Waters of the United States”
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00128-016-1773-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Derek R. Faust, Matthew T. Moore, Gerald Andrews Emison, Scott A. Rush |
| Abstract |
The 1972 Clean Water Act was passed to protect chemical, physical, and biological integrity of United States' waters. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers codified a new "waters of the United States" rule on June 29, 2015, because several Supreme Court case decisions caused confusion with the existing rule. Climate change could affect this rule through connectivity between groundwater and surface waters; floodplain waters and the 100-year floodplain; changes in jurisdictional status; and sea level rise on coastal ecosystems. Four approaches are discussed for handling these implications: (1) "Wait and see"; (2) changes to the rule; (3) use guidance documents; (4) Congress statutorily defining "waters of the United States." The approach chosen should be legally defensible and achieved in a timely fashion to provide protection to "waters of the United States" in proactive consideration of scientifically documented effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems. |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 20 | 95% |
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| Researcher | 6 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 14% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 5% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Environmental Science | 7 | 33% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 14% |
| Sports and Recreations | 2 | 10% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 14% |
| Unknown | 4 | 19% |
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