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Archive: October 2024 Blog Posts

  • Don’t Cage Our Oceans: The Army Corps’ Nationwide Permit for Commercial Finfish Aquaculture Found to be Unlawful
  • October 24th, 2024 — by Ashlyn Tracy — Category: Aquaculture

  • In 2022, Don’t Cage Our Oceans and other nonprofit organizations groups (collectively “DCOO”) sued the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) for its issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 (“NWP 56”), which authorized the installation of finfish aquaculture structures within oceans around the country.


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  • Environmental Groups Petition EPA to End North Carolina’s NPDES Program
  • October 9th, 2024 — by Jon Scoggins — Category: Water Quality

  • On August 28, 2024, Cape Fear River Watch, along with other non-profit public interest organizations, submitted a petition to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) under 40 C.F.R. § 123.64(b) (2024).


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