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Environmental, Energy and Climate Change Law & Regulation Reporter

FEATURE ARTICLE

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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

Council on Environmental Quality Publishes Final Rule Updating NEPA’s Implementing Regulations250

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Proposed Raising of Anderson Ranch Dam on the Boise Ri-

ver252

PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS

Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions254

RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS

Circuit Court of Appeals:

EPA’s Ranking of Hazardous Waste Site for Inclusion on National Priorities List Survives Challenge in the D.C. Circuit261

Meritor, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 966 F.3d 864 (D.C. Cir. 2020).

Radically Revised Agency Interpretation of Its Own Clean Air Act Regulation Rejected by the Tenth Circuit263

Sierra Club v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 964 F.3d 882 (10th Cir. July 2, 2020).

District Court:

District Court Finds NRDC Lacks Standing to Sue over EPAs Delay in Emergency Rulemaking on Monitoring and Reporting265

National Resources Defense Council v. Bodine, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 20 CIV. 3058 (CM) (S.D. N.Y. July 8, 2020).

Clean Water Act Citizen Suit Dismissed by the District Court as Time-Barred and Procedurally Defic-

ient267

South Side Quarry, LLC v. Metropolitan Sewer District, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 3:18-CV-706-DJH-RSE (W.D. Ky. July 14, 2020).

District Court Dismisses Clean Water Act for Pre-Suit Notice Deficiency and Conclusory Statements in the Complaint268

Stevens v. St. Tammany Parish Government, et al, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 20-928 (E.D. La. July 23, 2020).