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The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination. The CWA seeks to accomplish its stated goals by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, assisting wastewater treatment facilities and maintaining wetlands. less -

Title V/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denies Objection to a Cameron Parish, Louisiana Liquid Natural Gas...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/19/2024

The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a January 30th Order denying a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) for Commonwealth LNG, LLC,...more

DOJ to Stop “Piling On” and “Overfiling” Under Clean Water Act

McGlinchey Stafford on 8/6/2020

Is federalism alive and well? Has the federal government decided to give up “piling on” and “overfiling” in environmental enforcement actions? It seems so. On July 27, 2020, in an effort to promote federalism, U.S. Department...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2018 #2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/14/2018

As Storm Looms, 4th Circuit Reverses Ruling Against Dominion on Coal Ash Pollution at Chesapeake Site - "Water pollution from a coal ash landfill and settling ponds at a closed power plant in Chesapeake is not a violation of...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - August 2018 #4

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/24/2018

Activists Have a New Strategy to Block Gas Pipelines: State's Rights - "It already has worked in New York where construction on the Constitution Pipeline has stalled. Now activists are trying the strategy in Oregon." ...more

Extreme Weather Fuels Increasing Trend of New Climate Change Litigation

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 9/14/2017

As federal efforts to roll back environmental regulations from the Obama era continue, environmental groups have been increasingly filing lawsuits against industry alleging damages related to climate change impacts, using the...more

What’s It All About?

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/8/2014

There are many lessons that one could take from the outcome of the seven year (and counting) litigation involving environmental groups and the operators of the Los Angeles County stormwater system. Certainly one lesson is to...more

Cooperative Federalism is “Messy and Cumbersome” — EPA’s Chesapeake Bay TMDL is Upheld

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 9/19/2013

Last Friday, in American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA, Judge Sylvia Rambo upheld EPA’s Chesapeake Bay TMDL. As Judge Rambo noted in her conclusion, while the environmental problems associated with the Chesapeake Bay are...more

Fifth Circuit Evaluates Application of Civil Penalty Factors for Oil Spills under the Clean Water Act, Holds Economic Benefit is...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/24/2013

On an appeal of a penalty determination in the first oil spill case to be tried under the civil penalty provisions enacted after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe in the Oil Pollution Act of 1991, the Fifth Circuit Court of...more

Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Impacting Environmental and Regulatory Law

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/17/2013

The recent term of the United States Supreme Court featured several rulings on environmental and other regulatory issues. This update highlights the major environmental decisions this term, as well as some of the issues the...more

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