Eastern Water Law & Policy Reporter

FEATURE ARTICLE

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WATER NEWS

Insurance Companies Shift Climate Change Risks to the Taxpayer61

News from the West63

PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS

Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions68

RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS

Circuit Court of Appeals:

D.C. Circuit Finds CERCLA Cost Recovery Claim against the Federal Government Fails Due to Previous Clean Water Act Consent

Decree72

Government of Guam v. United States of America, ___F.3d___, Case No. 19-5131 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 14, 2020).

District Court:

District Court Holds Clean Water Act Citizen Suit Alleging Stormwater Discharges Into San Francisco Bay Survives Motion to Dismiss74

Eden Environmental Citizen’s Group, LLC v. American Custom Marble, Inc., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 19-CV-03424-EMC (N.D. Cal. Feb. 13, 2020).

District Court Finds, in the Face of Oil Pollution Act Claim, that the U.S. Coast Guard’s Plans for ‘Worst Case Discharges’ in the Great Lakes, Adequate76

Environmental Law & Policy Center, et al., v. U.S. Coast Guard, 

___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 18-12626 (E.D. MI Mar. 16, 2020).

Court of Federal Claims Rejects ‘Takings Claims’ Related to Hurricane Harvey Downstream Flooding Cases77

In re Downstream Addicks and Barker (Texas) Flood-Control Reservoir, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 17-9002 (Fed. Cl. Feb. 18, 2020).