Eastern Water Law & Policy Reporter

FEATURE ARTICLE

255

WATER NEWS

News from the West259

REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Sacramento River Contractors Coordinate and Delay Water Diversions to Benefit Chinook Salmon263

PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS

Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties and Sanctions265

JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS

Federal:

Ninth Circuit Rejects NEPA Lawsuit Challenging EIS for Sheep Grazing Plan in Grizzly Bear Habitat270

Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, Unpub., Case 19-35511 (9th Cir. Oct. 28, 2020).

D.C. Circuit Finds District of Columbia’s Water Pollution Control Act Is Discretionary271

District of Columbia v. Miss Dallas Trucking, LLC, ___F.3d___, Case No. 19-CV-540 (D.C. Cir. Oct. 22, 2020), as amended (Nov. 12, 2020).

District Court Vacates Department of the Interior’s Memorandum Removing Incidental Take Protections for Migratory Birds273

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 1:18-cv-04596-VEC (S.D. NY 2020).

District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Clean Water Act Citizen Suit—Finds Sufficient Pleading of Continuing or Intermittent Violations275

Okanogan Highlands Alliance, et al. v. Crown Resources Corporation, et al., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 2:20-CV-147-RMP (E.D. Wash. Oct. 5, 2020).

District Court Reverses EPA’s Narrow Jurisdictional Delineation by Applying Contemporary Judicial Scope of the Clean Water Act Jurisdiction277

San Francisco Baykeeper et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 3:19-cv-05941-WHA (N.D. Cal. 2020).