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Category "California Water Law & Policy"

First Circuit Holds EPA Has Discretion Whether to Serve Individual Clean Water Act Notices On Stormwater Dischargers

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the dismissal of two claims [...]

California Desalination Projects On Track to Receive Substantial Proposition 1 Grant Funding

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) recently released draft funding recommendations totaling over $34 [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Procedure For Challenging Regulations Defining the Scope of the Clean Water Act, Leaving Substance Unresolved

Reversing a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to [...]

Can the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designate Uninhabitable Areas as ‘Critical Habitat’ of a Listed Species—Must Courts Defer to Its Interpretation of the ESA?

Can areas unoccupied and uninhabitable by a species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act [...]