Aug 23, 2023 I guess it makes sense that the Navy would need a Clean Water Act permit to fire munitions if the Forest Service needs one to fight fires! By Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that Potomac Riverkeeper and the United States Navy are discussing a settlement of the NGO's lawsuit alleging...
Apr 22, 2022 Misery may love company but this NGO's attempt to prove two golf courses meet the "functional equivalence" test in the same case seems doomed. By Jeff Porter Some of you may recall that late last year an NGO filed a lawsuit against an operator of a wastewater treatment facility in the mountains...
Dec 13, 2021 Another Maui Case in the Mountains By Jeff Porter Last week another NGO filed suit against another operator of a wastewater treatment facility, this one in the mountains of Montana,...
Oct 28, 2021 You should care that the First Circuit decided yesterday to reconsider (again) its respect for the role of Federal and State Environmental Regulators By Jeff Porter This week the First Circuit Court of Appeals decided to rehear, en banc, the argument of a Massachusetts-based NGO that a 2014...
Sep 27, 2021 Information Injury is A Thing in The Ninth Circuit, But For How Long? By Jeff Porter Last week, a split panel in the Ninth Circuit concluded that ordinary citizens had a sufficient interest in the existence and accuracy of...
Jul 02, 2021 Following First Circuit Panel's decision, does EPA even matter anymore? By Jeff Porter The Conservation Law Foundation will continue its Clean Water Act and RCRA citizen suit against Exxon Mobil alleging violations of those...
Apr 28, 2021 That facility destroyed in 1906 may still be regulated in 2021 under the Clean Water Act of 1972 By Jeff Porter Just when you thought you had seen everything, last week a Judge in California allowed for the possibility that the entire site of a...
Apr 27, 2021 From Maui to Guam to Worcester, MA -- Another Clean Water Act Citizen Suit Continues By Jeff Porter Yesterday while the Supreme Court was hearing oral argument from lawyers for Guam and the United States regarding whether a 2004 Federal...
Apr 14, 2021 Pollutants, Storm Water, the Clean Water Act and Wildebeests By Jeff Porter Thanks to Bloomberg for reporting today's Clean Water Act citizen suit du jour. This suit involves a facility in Los Angeles that, like...
Apr 12, 2021 Another post-Maui Clean Water Act Case Filed in the Ninth Circuit By Jeff Porter This morning Bloomberg reports on the filing in the Ninth Circuit of another NGO complaint alleging another violation of the Federal...
Mar 10, 2021 That Tiger Didn't Go Crazy; That Tiger Went Tiger! By Jeff Porter "Creativity knows no bounds when it comes to citizen suits." Truer words have never been spoken. But I long for the old days when one...