The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and two states entered into a January 8th Consent Decree (“CD”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California with the following entities: ...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and ABF Freight System, Inc. (“ABF”) entered into a March 20th Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of Clean Water Act Industrial Stormwater Permits. See United...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and State of Illinois entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) with Prairie State Solar, LLC (“Prairie State”) to address alleged violation of the Clean Water Act...more
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting through the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and Dynamic Energy Solutions, LLC, (“Dynamic”) entered into a February 1st Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged...more
Columbia Riverkeeper (“Riverkeeper”) and Crunch Pak, LLC, (“Crunch”) entered into a January 7th Consent Decree in the United States District Court (Eastern District of Washington) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
EPA is currently pursuing six National Enforcement Initiatives. One of these initiatives is entitled, “Keeping Raw Sewage and Contaminated Stormwater Out of Our Nation’s Waters.” Over the past three years, civil penalties...more
On July 9, 2015, Beveridge & Diamond secured a unanimous published opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejecting a citizen suit challenge under the Clean Water Act. Beveridge & Diamond represented...more