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Supreme Court Issues Decision Sharply Limiting Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands

E2 Law Blog

In 2004 Michael and Chantell Sackett bought property near Priest Lake, Idaho and backfilled the lot with dirt in preparation for building a house. Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA , 598 U.S. at (slip op.

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Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement

Vermont Law

In 2004, Tutman founded the Patuxent Riverkeeper , a non-profit organization that aims to “conserve, protect and replenish Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway.” Tutman’s entry into the Waterkeeper realm happened almost by chance: while at an environmental meeting in 2003 , he met a riverkeeper called Fred Kelly.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

The central focus of the claims raised in the litigation were the transformers, required for every 8 to 14 homes, which are green boxes, roughly 3 feet cubed, placed on short concrete 4’ by 4’ pads. The Litigation. City of Berkeley (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th County of Ventura (1979) 24 Cal.3d 4th 572, 592.)

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