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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.…
In Olson v. Manhattan Beach Unified School District, appellant challenged the trial court’s dismissal of his Second Amendment complaint against the Manhattan Beach Unified School…
The California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District found that a California charter city is exempt from the statutory requirements for consistency between its…
Building upon its emergency regulations imposed during the recent and historic five-year drought, the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), now proposes to enact…
