Clean Water Act, Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90)

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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 -

EPA Issues New Rules Regarding Response and Risk Management Plans

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/25/2024

The Accidental Chemical Release Rules have an effective date of May 10, 2024, and includes a number of situations requiring compliance, generally by May 10, 2027. The new Clean Water Act facility response plan...more

EPA Revises National Contingency Plan to Assist with Oil Spill Responses

Goldberg Segalla on 6/9/2023

In 1990, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act, also known as the OPA. The act was in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and it amended the Clean Water Act of 1972. Its purpose was to avoid oil spills from...more

EPA Approves Texas NPDES Oil and Gas Program Authorization

White & Case LLP on 1/28/2021

On January 15, 2021, the US Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) announced that it approved an application from the State of Texas to administer the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program for...more

NRD Consent Decree Shows Innovation Alive & Well at DOI

Nossaman LLP on 6/7/2019

On June 3, 2019, the United States lodged a proposed Consent Decree under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act that would resolve a suite of natural resource damages (NRD) claims by federal, state, and tribal...more

Worst-Case Spill Regulations/Clean Water Act: Natural Resources Defense Council Law Suit Alleging U.S. Environmental Protection...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/8/2019

Three environmental organizations filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the United States Environmental...more

Texas Supreme Court to Consider Macondo Blowout Insurance Dispute

Gray Reed on 10/9/2018

The 2012 Macondo Well blowout and Deepwater Horizon rig explosion gave rise to a slew of lawsuits. Our subject today is one of them. ...more

Unsmooth “Operator” – Fifth Circuit Holds Tug Owner Liable Under OPA as “Operator” of Non-Owned Dumb Oil Barge

Baker Donelson on 10/1/2018

In an important decision of first impression construing the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA,” 33 U.S.C. §§2701 et seq.), the Fifth Circuit has held the owner and operator (“Nature’s Way”) of a “dominant mind” tugboat liable...more

Congress Expands the Oil Pollution Act to Reach Spills Originating Outside of the U.S.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/23/2018

The Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2017 amends the Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act to hold foreign-based offshore facilities liable for spills entering U.S. waters - New law establishes oil spill liability in the...more

Meaning of “In Connection With” and “Pursuant To” Under Oil Pollution Act A Question of First Impression in Fifth Circuit

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 11/10/2017

On November 7, in U.S. v. American Commercial Lines, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s ruling that American Commercial Lines (ACL), the owner of a tug boat whose contracted...more

Hurricane Irma Client Alert: Addressing Environmental Releases and Obligations

Morgan Lewis on 9/19/2017

As the cleanup begins in Florida, companies face challenges in meeting existing environmental obligations and addressing the environmental impacts of the storm....more

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