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Navigating Uncertainty: The Legal Landscape of Government Contracts Post-Chevron Reversal

For 40 years, the Chevron Doctrine has been a prominent precedent in administrative law allowing courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute or regulation. The Chevron Doctrine has been overturned by...more

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EPA and the Corps have won one in North Carolina but their most recent Waters of the United States rule isn't nearly out of the...

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Judge Boyle of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has denied the Pacific Legal Foundation's client an injunction against EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' most recent Waters of the United...more

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The Revocation of Florida’s Clean Water Act 404 Permitting Program: What It Means Moving Forward in Light of SCOTUS’ Recent...

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Over three years ago, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave Clean Water Act 404 permitting powers to the State of Florida. A few days ago, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

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Half of the United States have now thrown everything but the kitchen sink at EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' WOTUS rule. What...

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When EPA and the Corps of Engineers published their tenth attempt to determine the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act, I said the only question remaining was how many of the States and NGOs who challenged EPA's and the...more

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Effective Immediately, EPA and Army Corps Drastically Reduce Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published in the September 8th Federal Register a final rule to amend the “Revised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’” rule....more

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Questions Remain After EPA and the Army Corps Update the “Waters of the United States” Definition Following Sackett v. EPA

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On August 29, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) released the text of a rule further revising the definition of “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”) that the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

US EPA and Army Corps Announce Final Rule Amending WOTUS

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On August 29, 2023, the U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a pre-publication version of their final rule amending the definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) in response to the Sackett v. EPA...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Seeking Certainty: Redefining “Waters of the United States”

The 2023 redefinition reinstates the “1986” framework defining the reach and scope of navigable waters. To determine if a regulated body of water is located on the landowner’s property, the agencies acknowledge these...more

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Expansion of the "Waters of the U.S." Rule Delayed; Replacement Rule in the Works

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On February 6, 2018, the EPA formally suspended the Obama-era “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule until 2020. This delayed implementation will provide the Trump administration with additional time to issue a clearer, and...more

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SCOTUS Holds that Challenges to the Definition of Waters of the United States Must Be Heard in the U.S. District Courts

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Benjamin Stonelake In a unanimous decision and opinion delivered by Justice Sotomayor on January 22, 2018, in National Association of Manufacturers v. U.S. Department of Defense, the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”)...more

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SCOTUS Sends WOTUS Back TO District Courts

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On January 22, 2018, in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, the United States Supreme Court held unanimously that challenges to the federal Clean Water Act’s 2015 Waters of the United States...more

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Regulated Parties – 2, Regulators – 0

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The United States Supreme Court has handed regulated parties their second win in four years concerning when they can take EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to court over wetlands permitting issues. In 2012, the...more

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Environmental Notes - July 2016

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CONGRESS FINDS THE FORMULA TO REFORM CHEMICAL REGULATION - The Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) is the primary federal law by which the manufacture, import and use of chemical substances are regulated in the United...more

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Wetlands Determinations - Uncertainty for the Clean Water Rule?

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On May 31, 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc. holding that approved judicial determinations as to the presence of wetlands issued by the...more

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SCOTUS Gives Landowners New Tools to Challenge Wetlands Permitting Decisions

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The United States Supreme Court handed landowners and developers a win this month in a unanimous decision allowing appeals to federal courts of Army Corps of Engineers determinations that a body of water or wetland is subject...more

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Supreme Court Rules Landowners Can Challenge Jurisdictional Determinations

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On May 31, 2016, in a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held in USACE v. Hawkes Co. that approved jurisdictional determinations (“JD”) are final actions which can be reviewed by the courts. Under the Clean Water Act a...more

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The Supreme Court Holds that Army Corps’ Jurisdictional Determinations are Final Actions Subject to Judicial Review

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On May 31, 2016, in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., the US Supreme Court unanimously held that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) approved jurisdictional determination (JD) is a final agency action...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - June 2016

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Environmental and Policy Focus - U.S. Supreme Court allows pre-permit challenges to approved jurisdictional determinations - Allen Matkins - May 31 - In a major new legal development for the Clean Water Act's...more

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Supreme Court Authorizes Judicial Review of Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determinations Over Federal Government’s Objection

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In a rebuke to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”), the United States Supreme Court unanimously held on May 31, 2016, in Corps v. Hawkes that jurisdictional determinations (“JDs”) under the Clean Water Act are...more

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Supreme Court Sides with Property Owners: Jurisdictional Determination is Reviewable

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court decided that Army Corps’ jurisdictional determinations are judicially reviewable. This decision leaves open the question of whether other types of administrative decisions are immediately...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Unanimous Supreme Court Sides With Property Owners In Clean Water Act Row

Introduction - On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision that continues a trend of judicial skepticism toward federal agency efforts to avoid judicial review of agency permitting and related...more

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US Supreme Court Holds US Army Corps Clean Water Act Determinations Reviewable

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Decision allows landowners to challenge in court a US Army Corps of Engineers’ determination that a property is subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Supreme Court: Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Determinations Challengeable in Federal Court

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The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on May 31, 2016, in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc., No. 15-290, slip op., 578 U.S. ___ (2016) that approved jurisdictional determinations (JDs) issued by...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Supreme Court Allows Challenges to Section 404 Jurisdictional Determinations

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc., No. 15-290 (May 31, 2016) - Why It Matters: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously concluded that property owners who are required to obtain Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404...more

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Clean Water Act Client Alert: US Supreme Court Concludes US Army Corps of Engineers Wetland "Jurisdictional Determinations"...

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Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court unanimously concluded that wetland determinations by the US Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) under the Clean Water Act constitute final agency action, meaning that landowners can...more

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