OEPA Increases Number of Director’s Orders to Enforce Clean Water Laws in 2011 over 2010 totals, But to What End?

The fifth installment in the OELC’s report on the State of Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council, Director of Ohio Environmental Law Center) As the any year comes to a close, reflections and musings on the good and not-so-good is expected. As it [...]

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Ohio Must Keep Vigilent to Make Sure Destroyed Wetlands and Streams are Being Replaced

The fourth installment in the OELC’s report on the State of Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council, Director of Ohio Environmental Law Center) The first three installments of the Ohio Environmental Law Center’s Series on the State of Clean Water Act enforcement in [...]

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The few Constants in Life: Death, Taxes, and Trailer Park Sewage Problems

The third installment in the OELC’s report on the State of Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council, Director of the Ohio Environmental Law Center) A few weeks back, in our first two installments on the state of Ohio’s Clean Water Act enforcement, OELC [...]

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Happy 39th Clean Water Act!

The second installment in the OELC’s report on the State’s Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council First of all, the Ohio Environmental Law Center (OELC) would like to recognize the 39th Birthday of the Clean Water Act!  On October 18, 1972, both the [...]

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Back to School time means back to polluting for many Ohio schools

The first installment in the OELC’s report on the State’s Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council,Director of the Ohio Environmental Law Center)  Last month thousands of Ohio youngsters went back to school.  Back to Algebra tests.  Back to vocabulary tests.  Back to failing [...]

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How Ohio Fares Two Years after NY Times Series on Clean Water Enforcement: OELC’s Periodic Series

(Posted by Trent A. Dougherty, Director of Legal Affairs, Ohio Environmental Council, Director of the Ohio Environmental Law Center) Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nation’s waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution.  Two years ago, the New York Times ran an exposé [...]

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