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Reversing a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations defining “Waters of the…
Can areas unoccupied and uninhabitable by a species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) nonetheless be designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…
In March 2012, Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order establishing a goal of 1.5 million zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) on California roads by 2025…
Plaintiffs, Garrett Day LLC and the Ohio Development Services Agency, spent some $1.7 million cleaning hazardous substances released from a century-old paper mill in Dayton,…
The State of New Jersey is involved in a major lawsuit seeking natural resource damages from large petroleum and chemical companies on account of Methyl…
On November 14, 2017, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the Water Court’s order settling a title dispute over four irrigation water rights between two neighboring…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on November 27, has re-established that Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in Rapanos still controls Clean Water Act jurisdiction over…
Raging across headline news wires during the month of December 2017 are reports about the federal government’s review of existing national monuments, with Department of…
On November 29, 2017, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Mark Macarro, Chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians (Tribe) formally…
In late November 2017, the Cadiz Valley Groundwater Conservation, Storage and Recovery Project (Cadiz Project) was the subject of a new lawsuit challenging the U.S.…
