Eastern Water Law & Policy Reporter
January 2016
Volume 10, Number 11
January 2016
EASTERN WATER NEWS
U.S. Supreme Court Will Rule on Reviewability of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jurisdictional Wetlands Determinations to Resolve a Split in the Circuit Courts of Appeals259
Interstate Battle for Rights to Mississippi Delta Groundwater Brews before the U.S. Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Obama Administration Rejects Keystone Pipeline XL262
EPA Seeks Comments on Clean Water Act Regulation of Stormwater Discharges on Forest Roads263
News from the West265
PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS
Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions271
JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Federal:
District Court Finds CERCLA Damages a PRP Can Recover from other Parties Must be Reduced by the Amount of Response Costs Paid by In-
surers273
Appvion, Inc. and NCR Corp. v. P.H. Glatfelter Co., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 08-C-16 (E.D. Wis. Nov. 10, 2015).
District Court Finds a Generator that Disposes of its Own Waste ‘Benefitted from the Disposal’ and Thereby Is a CERCLA Arranger274
MEMC Pasadena, Inc., v. Goodgames Industrial Solutions, LLC, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 4:13-CV-599 (S.D. Tx. 2015).
District Court Holds that Stormwater is a Pollutant Subject to Regulation under the Clean Water
Act276
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance v. Whitley Manufacturing Co., Inc., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. C13-1690RSL (W.D. Wash. 2015).
District Court Holds Owner of Conservation Easement Lacked Standing to Challenge Corps’ Administration of the Clean Water Act Mitigation Bank Program278
Walther v. U.S. ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 3:15-cv-0021-HRH (D. Ak. 2015).