The Conservation Law Foundation (“CLF”) filed on August 14th a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Civil Penalties (“Complaint”) against Twin Rivers Technologies, Inc., and Twin Rivers technologies...more
A United States District Court (W.D. Washington) (“Court”) addressed in an October 31st Order a Clean Water Act citizen suit action seeking an injunction to remedy alleged illegal discharge of pollutants into a lake and its...more
The Conservation Law Foundation and Charles River Watershed Association (collectively, “CLF”) sent a July 13th document to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: Notice of Violations and Intent...more
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a person who enters into an administrative settlement with a state is immune from citizen suits seeking civil penalties, but not immune from suits for declaratory or...more
The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Coosa Riverkeeper, Inc., (“CRI”) filed a Complaint in the United States District Court (Northern District of Alabama) against Newcastle Homes, Inc. (“Newcastle”) alleging...more
Yesterday, Judge Rosemary Marquez vacated the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, the misnomer also known as the Trump WOTUS rule. In response to this citizens’ suit challenging NWPR, the Biden EPA and Army Corps of Engineers...more
The Environmental organization Amigos Bravos (“AB”) filed an action in the United States District Court (District of New Mexico) against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) for Declaratory and Injunctive...more
The Conservation Law Foundation (“CLF”) filed a June 19th Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and Civil Penalties (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the...more
Last month, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Conservation Law Foundation’s argument that EPA had a non-discretionary duty to require persons owner property where stormwater runoff contributes to an exceedance of...more