On Monday, March 24, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the “Corps”) issued a Federal Register Notice soliciting stakeholder feedback concerning the implementation...more
The Biden Administration has made PFAS reduction a cornerstone of its environmental policy and with that goal in mind, the Environmental Protection Agency on June 15 announced new, lower lifetime Health Advisory Levels for...more
7/8/2022
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Drinking Water ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Federal Grants ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
PFAS ,
Public Health ,
Toxic Chemicals ,
Wastewater ,
Water Quality
Seven years after the first windmill was erected in Block Island, RI, most of the growth in US offshore wind has been focused on the Northeast and, increasingly, the Mid-Atlantic states. But North Carolina is beginning to...more
The Trump Administration has proposed the first major changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in more than three decades. These proposed changes (announced in a Jan. 10, 2020 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking)...more
The US Supreme Court may be poised to review two 2018 decisions in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits, both of which applied the so-called ‘hydrological connection” theory to extend jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) to...more
1/7/2019
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Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Groundwater ,
Jurisdiction ,
Navigable Waters ,
Point Sources ,
Split of Authority ,
Statutory Authority ,
Water ,
Waters of the United States