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Venable LLP

Sackett v. EPA: What's Next for Clean Water Act Jurisdiction?

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Clean Water Act practitioners have spent the past 50 years learning how to identify a wetland or water body that qualifies for federal jurisdiction—and the past 17 parsing the phrase "significant nexus." The upshot was that...more

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WOTUS Rule Finalized: What Does it Mean?

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Following decades of regulatory actions and lawsuits concerning the definition of “waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act, on December 30, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Puts the Brakes on Corps’ Wetlands Determinations

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On May 31, 2016, in a (surprising) 8–0 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the full Supreme Court, issued a ruling that will have far-reaching effects on landowners, real estate developers, farmers, oil and gas...more

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