In the US Supreme Court’s first post-Chevron decision involving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Supreme Court found against EPA, invalidating ‘end result’ NPDES permit requirements....more
3/10/2025
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City and County of San Francisco v Environmental Protection Agency ,
Clean Water Act ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Environmental Litigation ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation
In a closely watched environmental Clean Water Act (CWA) case, the US Supreme Court adopted a far narrower construction of CWA’s definition of “waters of the United States,” functionally shifting significant authority over...more
Crafting environmental regulations often takes time and substantive knowledge about complex technical and policy issues.
Below, we draw some key administrative law takeaways from the DC Circuit’s May 9 decision in National...more
What will happen in the environmental and energy space in 2023? The last year saw transformative changes in the environmental and energy space in the form of historic spending through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a...more
12/15/2022
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Clean Water Act ,
Climate Change ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
NGOs ,
PFAS ,
Popular ,
Sackett ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)