As predicted in February, our nation's highest court is about to hear its third Clean Water Act in four years. Anyone who doubts the...
Just before the holidays I wrote about three Judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals who decided, over the Army Corps of Engineers'...
The ever-vigilant Sam Hess of Inside EPA has posted an August presentation by an EPA official at the Association of Clean Water...
Inside EPA reports that some House Democrats are criticizing their Republican colleagues for attempting to repeal EPA's eighth attempt to...
In April of 2020 the Supreme Court of the United States answered a yes or no question with a maybe. The question: does a discharge to...
Almost two years to the day after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, the First Circuit Court of...
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...
Last week another NGO filed suit against another operator of a wastewater treatment facility, this one in the mountains of Montana,...
Traveling the long and winding road to Hana in Maui is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have in the United States. I'm not...
The County of Maui had another day in court this week, this time pleading with Federal District Judge Mollway to reconsider her renewed...
Yesterday a split three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a clay manufacturer is entitled to a new trial...
Friday, a Federal District Court Judge in California joined most other Federal District Court Judges in concluding that EPA's Clean Water...
EPA's post-Maui statement on the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act has joined other regulations and guidance applying the Clean Water...
Friday EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers announced that between now and Labor Day they will be listening to stakeholders as they kick...
Thanks Lara Beaven, of Inside EPA, for this piece explaining well how citizen suits in Federal Court are eclipsing the efforts of EPA to...
In April of 2020, Justice Breyer, delivering the Supreme Court's opinion in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, told us that "the traditional...