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Epstein Becker & Green

Another Leak Confirmed and Other Important Decisions and Divisions Issued, but Not Loper or Trump - SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court’s day started with the specter of yet another leak of a reproductive rights decision having occurred....more

(ACOEL) | American College of Environmental...

Will Federal Rollbacks Lead to the Rise of Localism?

Based on research from law professors at Harvard and Columbia, the New York Times reported this month that the Trump administration has reversed, or is in the process of reversing, almost 100 federal environmental...more

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Normal Operation of Railcars in Transit/Applicability of Clean Water Act Discharge Prohibition: U.S. Surface Transportation Board...

The United States Surface Transportation Board (“STB”) instituted a Declaratory Order proceeding on February 19th that will address whether 49 U.S.C. 10501(b): . . . preempts the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) discharge...more

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Railroads Seek to Avoid a Patchwork Quilt of Regulatory Requirements

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• The Clean Water Act imposes permitting obligations on "point sources." • Should those obligations apply to railroad cars, which move freely from state to state? • The U.S. railroad industry has asked the Surface...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Supreme Court’s Environmental and Administrative Law Decisions in 2015-2016 Term

This Advisory briefly reports on some of the significant U.S. Supreme Court actions from January through June 2016 related to environmental and administrative law. ...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Perhaps the Clean Air Act Really Doesn’t Preempt State Common Law Remedies

This week, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held, in Merrick v. Diageo Americas Supply, that the Clean Air Act does not preempt source state common law remedies seeking to control air pollution – even where the defendant is...more

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