The paper analyzes the EPA's proposed 'total maximum daily load' (TMDL) rules for water quality regulation. The … benefits of movement to a system that drives pollutant reductions from ambient water conditions are described. The paper argues … proposed regulations will alter the politics, economics, and law of water quality regulation. Several state TMDL programs are …

should make use of all tools available, including tax-related measures. Consumption taxes such as the European Union (EU … the Amending Directive (EU) 2022/542 to reform the rules on tax rates in the EU VAT Directive. These actions are … predominantly aimed at giving the Member States more flexibility in the setting of VAT rates. Another target of the recent EU VAT …

The EU environmental policy is challenged by current international development (withdrawal of the US from the Paris …’ Initiative, the environmentally oriented Right2Water initiative, which had been presented to the Commission in 2013. Following … broadened from traditional direct environmental challenges, such as access to clean water, clean air, maintaining biodiversity …

If one considers the different environmental action programs of the EU in which the strategic orientation of the EU … partially reflected in changes in the concrete instruments that are used in the environmental policy legal acts of the EU. The … are still the dominant form of environmental policy governance in the EU …