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Environment Next
AUGUST 31, 2021
District Court for the District of Arizona vacated a 2020 rulemaking that had pared back protections to certain bodies of water (see attached August 30, 2021 Opinion ). The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act. 715 (2006).
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . Photographs by J.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.
The Energy Law Blog
MAY 26, 2023
21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. United States , 547 U.S.
Ohio Environmental Law
OCTOBER 6, 2021
CV-20-00266 , the Court ruled that the Trump Administration’s regulatory effort to define the scope of the Clean Water Act (i.e. which rivers, streams and lakes are federally regulated) had “fundamental, substantive flaws” and, therefore, vacated the NWPR. Since the 2006 U.S. After four different U.S.
ESA
AUGUST 30, 2021
In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. Feds protect a bumblebee unseen since 2006 – E&E News. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. Federal Register Opportunities.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
It is only when you look back at the history of federal wetland regulation that you realize just how radical and destructive this decision was. For instance, under the Court’s reasoning, a Reagan Administration regulation as a blatantly illegal environmentalist overreach. Here’s a timeline of the major events. In Rapanos v.
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