On July 6, 2020, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling ordering that the Dakota Access Pipeline (the Pipeline) be shut down and emptied by August 5, 2020. The decision...more
On April 15, 2020, an order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana vacated a key general permit pipeline and utility project owners have used for decades to address Clean Water Act requirements, including...more
On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, which established a new test to determine the permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The case...more
4/24/2020
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Clean Water Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Direct Discharge ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Functional Equivalent ,
Groundwater ,
Hawaii Wildlife Fund v County of Maui ,
Navigable Waters ,
Permits ,
Point Sources ,
Remand ,
SCOTUS ,
Vacated ,
Waters of the United States
In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the controversial “Clean Power Plan,” which was immediately the subject of a legal challenge and was subsequently stayed by the United States Supreme Court....more
12/11/2018
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Clean Power Plan ,
Coal-Fired Plants ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) ,
Power Plants ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Reform ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays ,
Trump Administration
In a new effort to clarify the breadth of exemptions for farm animal waste emission reporting, EPA has proposed a rule that exempts such emissions from the reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community...more
11/16/2018
/ Agricultural Sector ,
CERCLA ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
EPCRA ,
Exemptions ,
Farm Animals ,
Farms ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Unduly Burdensome ,
Waste
Two years ago, the EPA adopted the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Subpart OOOOa (commonly known as the Methane Rule), which allowed the EPA – for the first time – to regulate directly the emissions of methane gas...more
9/14/2018
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Methane ,
Moratorium ,
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Oil & Gas ,
Oil Wells ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Public Comment ,
Reversal ,
Stays ,
Vacated