FEATURE ARTICLE
Drinking Water: Still Good The Second Time Around? Is Recycled Water Safe to Drink? by Eileen M. Nottoli, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory 247
EASTERN WATER NEWS
Is the Future of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Nationwide Permit Program Endangered?—Notice of Intent Filed to Sue Corps over Program Conflict with the ESA252
Settlement Appears Imminent in Kentucky Arch Coal Clean Water
Case225
News from the West256
REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Declares Nation’s Second Most Vulnerable Levee System, California’s Central Valley System, ‘Unacceptable’259
EPA Addresses Harmful Algae Blooms in Great Lakes Watersheds260
PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS
Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions262
JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Circuit Court of Appeals:
Ninth Circuit Rejects Grand Canyon Trust’s Appeal Regarding the Bureau’s Annual Operating Plans for the Glen Canyon Dam265
Grand Canyon Trust v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, ___F.3d___, Case No. 11-16326 (9th Cir. Aug. 13, 2012).
Seventh Circuit Finds Contamination Site Harm Not Divisible with Only Weak Correlation to the Amount of PCBs Discharged267
U.S. v. NCR Corporation, ___F.3d___, Case No. 12-2069 (7th Cir. 2012).
District Court:
District Court Holds Political Question Doctrine Not Implicated where Claims Clash With State Law Derived from Federal Regulator’s Rules269
In Re Motor Fuel Temperature Sales Practices Litigation, ___F.Supp.2d___, Case No. 2:07-md-01840 (D. Kan. Aug. 8, 2012).
District Court Finds Assumption of Environmental Liability under Plain Language of Asset Purchase Agreement271
Lockheed Martin Corporation v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, ___F.Supp.2d___, Case No. 5:10 CV 673 (N.D. Ohio Aug. 15, 2012).
