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By Jeanne Zolezzi If you divert and use water from a surface water source, California law requires you to report your diversion and use to…
By James Purvis The Sierra Club brought a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National…
By James Purvis Plaintiffs sued to invalidate “Proposition C,” an initiative entitled “Universal Childcare for San Francisco Families Initiative,” on the ground that it required…
By Bridget McDonald In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found…
By Deborah Quick Congress sought to diminish state discretion to regulate six specific air pollutants by its 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. Those…
By Geremy Holm and Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia recently granted a motion to dismiss a Clean Water…
By Wesley A. Miliband and Kristopher T. Strouse On January 20, 2021, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB or Board) voted unanimously in favor…
By Stephen Odell The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that water rights holders could not independently secure judicial review, outside the statutory process prescribed for…
By James Purvis Various conservation groups brought suit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore…
By Paige Gosney In December 2020, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) finalized for the very first time a regulatory definition for the term…
