Water Agencies Beware Before Proceeding with Forced Municipalization - California’s state water system serves roughly 40 million people and irrigates nearly 10 million acres of farmland. The 2023 water year was ranked as...more
Many currently unregulated commercial, industrial, and institutional properties in Eastern Massachusetts may soon require stormwater upgrades in order to meet the new rigorous Clean Water Act (CWA) stormwater discharge...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a February 27th report titled: Perspectives on Capacity: Managing Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Infrastructure...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a February 22nd news release stating it is providing $53,099,000 to Arkansas for its Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (collectively, “SRF”). ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Region 6 announced in a March 9th news release that it was awarding the State of Arkansas $15,178,000 for its Clean Water State Revolving Fund (“CWSRF”)...more
H.R. 3906 was previously introduced in the United States House of Representatives (“House”) and is titled the: Innovative Stormwater Infrastructure Act of 2018 (“Bill”) ...more
• The Trump Administration released an ambitious $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Feb. 12, 2018 – a plan that includes many provisions focused upon encouraging the reuse of contaminated brownfields and Superfund sites. ...more
On February 12, 2018, the White House unveiled its 55-page proposal for infrastructure investment, the Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure. The sweeping proposal seeks to inject funding into several key areas...more
Green infrastructure refers to, among other things, the utilization of sustainable forestry and agriculture as elements of a cost-effective compliance strategy for meeting the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on Nov. 17, 2016, a Notice of Intent to Reissue the District of Columbia's municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permit. The notice triggers a 45-day public...more
Partnerships between the public and private sector can help improve and sustain the ability of local governments to design, construct, finance, operate and maintain various infrastructure. ...more
On July 9, 2015, Beveridge & Diamond secured a unanimous published opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejecting a citizen suit challenge under the Clean Water Act. Beveridge & Diamond represented...more
The last thing that public agency leaders want to hear is that looming changes may make operating and building new public infrastructure more challenging and expensive. Unfortunately, proposed changes by the Environmental...more