Terry McAuliffe’s vetoes and amendments (all times local): 8:20 p.m. State lawmakers have upheld Gov.
The measure as amended by the governor requires site assessments of the ash ponds by Dec. 1.
Without the governor’s changes, the measure would have allowed state environmental officials to issue long-term closure permits before the assessments were conducted.
The GOP-controlled House of Delegates rejected an amendment to the state’s budget that would have given Democratic Gov.
Thirty-one states have expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, including some with Republican governors.
The Senate on Wednesday rejected an amendment from Gov.
___ 1:10 p.m. Virginia lawmakers have rejected Gov.
The two Democratic candidates for governor in Virginia are pushing Republican lawmakers to expand Medicaid, signaling the issue could be a major campaign talking point this year.
The GOP-controlled General Assembly, which is back at the Capitol to consider McAuliffe’s vetoes and amendments, is expected to reject Medicaid expansion later Wednesday.
McAuliffe has also proposed a budget amendment that would give him power to expand Medicaid, saying the issue had gained new urgency after President Donald Trump’s recent defeat in repealing the Affordable Care Act.

HARRISVILLE — With the ongoing water pollution issue taking place in Oscoda Township, Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport officials are seeking support from other municipalities to ask the U.S. Air Force and federal government to clean up the mess.
Wednesday Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport Authority Chairman Kevin Boyat asked the Alcona County Board of Commissioners during a meeting to support a resolution asking for a cleanup.
“There are a lot of people who are concerned about it, and we have a lot of businesses on the base,” Boyat said.
As residents seek alternative water sources in the form of municipal water hookups, reverse osmosis systems or water bottle systems, local authorities have been asking the government to fix the issue.
Boyat said the authority decided to create a resolution to send to the state and the federal government to fix the issue.
“We want to send it to you to ask for your support to ask the state and the federal government to show that the Air Force should be responsible,” he said.
2, along with Commissioner Kathleen Vichunas, he did not think the Air Force would willingly pay anything for a cleanup on the former facility.
Johnston said he would give the resolution to the other commissioners and consider the resolution during an upcoming meeting.
Boyat said the resolution is being given to Iosco County townships and other municipalities for support.
He said it may be given to Alcona County townships as well.

New York Pours $2.5 Billion Into Clean Water Programs.
New York is primed to pump $2.5 billion into its water infrastructure programs following the discovery of chemical contamination in drinking water throughout a number of sites across the state.
The Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is included in a budget bill ( S. 5492) expected to be signed shortly by Gov.
“We’re ground zero for water contamination in New York state,” Michele Baker, a Hoosick Falls resident, told Bloomberg BNA Baker is the lead plaintiff in a class action against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. and Honeywell International Inc. over drinking water contamination after perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) were found in the drinking water.
She estimates $25 million is needed to clean the city’s drinking water supply.
New York’s water infrastructure measure also includes $130 million for the remediation of hazardous waste sites with water contamination and $100 million for municipal water supply infrastructure programs.
Funding Applauded Darren Suarez, director of government affairs for the Business Council of New York State, applauded the act.
Paul Gallay, president of Riverkeeper, also praised the funding.
The budget bill was approved by both houses of the Legislature April 3 as an emergency measure because lawmakers missed the deadline for the start of the state fiscal year on April 1.
To contact the reporter on this story: Gerald B. Silverman in Albany, N.Y., at GSilverman@bna.com To contact the editor responsible for this story: Larry Pearl at lpearl@bna.com Copyright © 2017 The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Essay example – Water Pollution.
The river use to stream through the forest of the hardwoods.
The livestock waste was streamed into the Fork West making it extremely polluted making the vertebrates in the river to perish which in turn led to a decrease in fish population in the stream.
This animal waste also led to algal bloom which worsens the conditions of waters in this river which later leads to death of fish due to lack of oxygen.
The pesticides and insecticides used in the farms gets its way into the waters of river West Fork polluting its waters.
This made pollution more terrible to the marine life in the river at that point in time.
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Persistently high pesticide levels found in small streams.
A study commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment and published today shows that the legal requirements specified for water quality are not met in any of the five Swiss streams investigated.
Wide variety of agents and high concentrations It had been suspected that small watercourses are heavily contaminated with plant protection products (PPPs), and this has now been confirmed.
In 80% of samples, the limit (0.1 µg/L) specified in the Waters Protection Ordinance was exceeded by at least one substance – for over 60 days in all five streams investigated, and for almost the entire six-month study period in the Weierbach (Basel-Landschaft) and Eschelisbach (Thurgau).
Concentrations as high as 40 µg/L were detected for individual substances.
Chronic and acute toxicity of mixtures Because the limit of 0.1 µg/L per individual substance specified in the Waters Protection Ordinance does not adequately reflect the actual risks for organisms – and 20 to 40 substances, on average, were detected in each sample – the analytical data were also compared with ecotoxicological water quality criteria.
The results leave little room for interpretation: in all cases, chronic water quality criteria were exceeded (sometimes many times over) for a period ranging from two weeks (Ticino) to as much as five-and-a-half months (Basel-Landschaft, Thurgau).
In four of the watercourses, concentrations exceeded the thresholds for acute toxicity to sensitive organisms, for periods of up to two months (Valais).
The lowest level of contamination was found at the monitoring site in the canton of Ticino, where the catchment area shows a lower intensity of agricultural use.
Action Plan under development to reduce risks of pesticides For Stephan Müller, Head of the Water Division at the FOEN, these findings confirm that agricultural PPPs – alongside micropollutants released from wastewater treatment plants – are currently the most important source of contaminants in Swiss surface waters.

Americans’ Fears About Water Pollution Hit A 16-Year High.
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According to a new Gallup poll , 63 percent of respondents said they worried “a great deal” about pollution of drinking water, while 57 percent of overall respondents also said they were concerned about pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
The percentage of respondents with water concerns is at its highest level recorded in Gallup’s annual environmental poll since 2001.
The pollsters say respondents’ water pollution concerns are likely linked to the high-profile drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which has elevated an issue that is often out of sight and out of mind.
The poll found that lower-income respondents were far more concerned with water pollution than more affluent ones.
These findings did not come as a surprise to water experts.
Nneka Leiba, deputy director of research at the Environmental Working Group , said the situation in Flint is just one example of a water quality concern likely weighing on Americans’ minds.
At the same time, other cuts President Donald Trump has proposed for water initiatives have raised serious concerns among environmental and public health groups.
Cutting the program, advocates fear, could devastate small towns that are already struggling to consistently deliver safe drinking water to their residents.

Monterey >> A California American Water official argued the company’s desalination project can secure key permits and approvals within six months of certification of the final project environmental review document and start construction shortly afterward, despite a series of delays involving the draft report and the prospect of seeking a critical permit from the city of Marina.
By contrast, backers of the Pure Water Monterey groundwater replenishment project have indicated they’re on the verge of securing key permits and low-cost financing, and could start construction in the next few months.
Cal Am project manager Ian Crooks told the Monterey Peninsula mayors water authority’s technical advisory committee on Monday that he believed key project permits and approvals could be secured by mid-2018, following certification of the final combined environmental impact report and environmental impact assessment by the end of this year.
That would allow construction to start by the end of September next year.
The company’s schedule calls for completing the desal project by late 2019 and starting water deliveries by early 2020.
“Six months is what we’re shooting for,” Cal Am spokeswoman Catherine Stedman said.
In all, Cal Am must secure more than three dozen permits, according to a permit matrix included in the draft combined environmental report.
According to a series of milestones in the state water board’s river pumping cutback order, Cal Am must secure the CPUC permit by Sept. 30 next year, start project construction by Sept. 30, 2019, and finish construction and start water deliveries by the end of 2021, allowing the reduction of river water diversions to the authorized 3,376 acre-feet per year.
Missed milestones could result in losing up to 1,000 acre-feet per year in river water diversions and fines until the milestones are reached and the project is completed.
Meanwhile, Sciuto said he expects 1-percent state loan financing to be finalized next week, along with key permits such as water rights, triggering the start of construction within a few months – ahead of the September milestone in the river cutback order.

The U.S. population appears to be more concerned with polluted water than it has been in over a decade, just as the Trump administration is rolling back water protections.
According to a new Gallup poll, 63 percent of respondents said they worried “a great deal” about pollution of drinking water, while 57 percent of overall respondents also said they were concerned about pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs.
The percentage of respondents with water concerns is at its highest level recorded in Gallup’s annual environmental poll since 2001.
The pollsters say respondents’ water pollution concerns are likely linked to the high-profile drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which has elevated an issue that is often out of sight and out of mind.
The poll found that lower-income respondents were far more concerned with water pollution than more affluent ones.
These findings did not come as a surprise to water experts.
Nneka Leiba, deputy director of research at the Environmental Working Group, said the situation in Flint is just one example of a water quality concern likely weighing on Americans’ minds.
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Though some of these examples have been many years in the making, the poll’s findings take on heightened meaning at a time when the Trump administration is pushing to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s “waters of the U.S.” Clean Water Rule and slash the EPA’s budget significantly ― actions that could impair the agency’s ability to effectively intervene in future crises.
Cutting the program, advocates fear, could devastate small towns that are already struggling to consistently deliver safe drinking water to their residents.

480mn gallons of polluted water flowing into Karachi sea daily.
ISLAMABAD: About 480 million gallons of polluted water and waste of Karachi city was daily flowing into the sea, causing destruction of marine life.
This was stated by senior officials of the Ministry of Ports and Shipping in a meeting of Senate Standing Committee on Ports and Shipping held at Parliament House.
Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Chairman Karachi Port Trust and other senior officials attended the meeting.
The committee was informed that sea pollution is not only affecting marine life but also causing health problems for the city’s residents.
Bizenjo said that his ministry has conducted two meetings with Sindh government to discuss issues related to water pollution.
He proposed a jointly devised plan to contain the issue and to protect marine life.
The committee has decided to invite officials of Karachi Water Sewerage Board and other concerned departments in its next meeting.
Senator Taj Haider said that the provincial government initiated water desalination and is currently cleaning 250 million gallons of water under the TP1 and TP3 project.