FEATURE ARTICLE
Challenges to Permitting Desalination Plants in the U.S.—The California Example by Joe Monaco, AICP, Dudek, Encinitas and Scott Birkey, Esq., Cox, Castle 267
EASTERN WATER NEWS
Legislation and Lawsuit Attempt to Delay Higher National Flood Insurance Program Rates273
EPA and U.S. Army Corps Propose New Regulations Defining Federal Jurisdiction under Sections 402 and 404 of the Clean Water Act274
News From the West277
PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS
Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions279
LAWSUITS FILED OR PENDING
Environmental Groups Sue to Protect Delaware River Fish Populations. .282
JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Federal:
Eighth Circuit Finds Costs and Expenses to Clean Up an Insured’s Own Property Are Not Covered under the ‘Owned-Property’ Exclusion284
Land O’Lakes, Inc. v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, ___F.3d___, Case No. 12-1752 (8th Cir. Aug. 29, 2013).
Fourth Circuit Holds That CERCLA Pre-Empts State Statutes of
Repose286
Waldburger, et al. v. CTS Corporation, ___F.3d___, Case No. 12-1290 (4th Cir. 2013).
District Court Finds Clean Water Act Citizen Suit Is Moot when Agency Enforcement Action Exists . .288
Benham v. Ozark Materials River Rock, LLC, ___F.Supp.2d___, Case No. 11-CV-339-JED-FHM (N.D. Okl. Sep. 24, 2013).
District Court Imposes CERCLA Liability on a Supplier and a Recycler of PCB-Laden Wastepaper290
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. NCR Corporation, ___F.Supp.2d___, Case No. 1:11-CV-483 (W.D. Mich. Sept. 26, 2013).
District Court Opens the Door for Another Court to Require EPA to Promulgate Rules On the Gulf of Mexico’s ‘Dead Zone’292
Gulf Restoration Network v. Jackson, ___F. Supp.2d___, Case No.12-6772013 (E.D. La. Sept. 20, 2013).
District Court Finds NMFS Abused Its Discretion in Authorizing the Incidental Take of Marine Mammals during Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercises293
InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council v. National Marine Fisheries Service, ___F.Supp.2d___, Case No 1:12-cv-00420 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 26, 2013).
