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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…
By Geremy Holm and Steve Anderson In December 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, HR 133, 166th Congress (2020) was passed and signed into…
By Nicole Granquist, Meghan Quinn and Meredith Nikkel On January 14, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized guidance regarding the implementation of the…
By Harvey M. Sheldon In a move that surprised some observers of the Flint Michigan drinking water crisis and saga, the former Governor of Michigan,…
By Michele A. Staples The California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) updated its General Plan Environmental Justice Element Guidelines in June 2020 to…
By Heraclio Pimentel and Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for New Hampshire recently determined that allegations of violations of a 1992 federal Clean Water…
By Deborah Quick How much discretion does the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wield when promulgating (non)attainment status for sub-state geographic areas under the federal…
By Hina Gupta Recently, both Arizona and Nevada took major strides to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions future by 2050. Meanwhile, Nevada released a climate…
By Holly Tokar and Meredith Nikkel On November 20, 2020, a coalition of environmental groups filed a verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint…
