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Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Does EPA Have Authority to Include Narrative Criteria in NPDES Permits? Yes, For Now.

Earlier this week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed EPA’s NPDES permit issued to San Francisco’s Oceanside sewer system. San Francisco had challenged the permit on the ground that EPA does not have authority to...more

Maron Marvel

Will “Waters of the United States” Drown Private Property in More Regulation in 2022?

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Will private landowners’ property fall under more regulation as part of the definition of “waters of the United States?” Will land near, but that does not front, a large body of water be subject to the wetlands regulations of...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

USEPA and the Corps Going Back to the Future on WOTUS

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What was old is now new again as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced on September 3, 2021 a reversion to a pre-2015 definition of Waters of...more

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Clean Water Act Agencies Solicit Comments to Support Repeal of WOTUS Rule

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On July 12, 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“USACE”) published a “Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” soliciting additional comments on...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

USEPA and Army Corps of Engineers Release Final Clean Water Rule

On May 27, 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“USACE”) released their long-awaited final rule defining the scope of “waters of the United States”...more

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