10 May, 2024 EPA may avoid a nationwide injunction against its most recent WOTUS rule, but the rule is still in hot water. By Jeff Porter Sam Hess of Inside EPA has a fulsome report on EPA's everything but the kitchen sink attempt to avoid a nationwide freeze of its most...
26 Sep, 2023 ACKRat is asking the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Vineyard Wind Project as time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...into the future. By Jeff Porter The Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, or ACKRat, have asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to find that the Federal Bureau of...
22 Mar, 2023 Not so hard cases can also make bad law -- Deference to Agencies takes a hit in the Texas Waters of the United States Case By Jeff Porter Sam Hess of Inside EPA points out that Judge Brown of Texas concluded that the United States Supreme Court's nearly forty year old...
08 Mar, 2023 EPA's Clean Water Act "Congressional Purpose" Chicken Roosts in South Carolina By Jeff Porter Law360 is reporting that a Federal District Court Judge in South Carolina is allowing NGOs, including the South Carolina Coastal...
17 Sep, 2021 EPA Maui Interpretive Statement, We Hardly Knew Ye! By Jeff Porter EPA's post-Maui statement on the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act has joined other regulations and guidance applying the Clean Water...
22 Mar, 2021 It may only take a minute to fall in love but litigation takes a whole lot longer By Jeff Porter In 1975 Tavares sang that it only takes a minute to fall in love. If that seems like a long time ago to some of you, consider the fact...