Jun 03, 2024 A Louisiana Judge may strike down another EPA Clean Water Act regulation and the Supreme Court would likely see it the same way. By Jeff Porter Several “red” states and three energy industry NGOs have filed a motion for summary judgment in their Louisiana Federal Court challenge...
Apr 17, 2024 EPA & the Army Corps of Engineers have less ability to protect wetlands than they've had in 40 years but Florida still isn't satisfied By Jeff Porter We're approaching the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Sackett v. EPA holding that, contrary to the view of EPA and...
Mar 20, 2024 Governor Abbott says Texas isn't bound by the oldest Federal environmental law. He's about to learn what he should have learned in middle school. By Jeff Porter Law 360 is reporting on yesterday's hearing in the United States' litigation against the State of Texas to cause the removal of an...
Dec 06, 2023 Now a Federal Judge in Louisiana will determine the validity of EPA's interpretation of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act By Jeff Porter When EPA published its most recent rule specifying the role of States and Tribes in the Federal permitting of discharges into Waters of...
Sep 28, 2022 For different reasons, Members of Congress in both parties have put off the permitting reform essential to reach our renewable energy future. By Jeff Porter As millions in Florida face the wrath of our warming oceans in the guise of Hurricane Ian, Inside EPA is reporting that enough Democrats...
Sep 14, 2022 EPA is exercising Clean Water Act muscle in a way it never has before, in Massachusetts of all places! By Jeff Porter Many years ago the Conservation Law Foundation sued the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to cause EPA to exercise...
Feb 14, 2022 Just when you thought the Waters of the United States saga couldn't get any stranger By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside EPA reports on the standoff between the State of Florida and the United States Environmental Protection Agency over...
Sep 20, 2021 District Courts Disagree (Again) About the Validity of EPA's Clean Water Act Regulations But This Time It Doesn't Seem to Matter By Jeff Porter Friday, a Federal District Court Judge in California joined most other Federal District Court Judges in concluding that EPA's Clean Water...
Sep 17, 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...
Aug 24, 2021 Another NGO Asks a Federal Appeals Court to Manage EPA. What's Next? By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that a Pacific Northwest NGO has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to order the United States Environmental...
Aug 23, 2021 Extra Time For States In Clean Water Act Match Unlikely To End By Jeff Porter One of the many things I've never understood about soccer (football in the rest of the world) is that the referee can decide, or not, to...