Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA (2012 ). Atomic Energy Commission (1971). Decided only a year after NEPA went into effect, this D,C. Circuit opinion gave real teeth to the requirement of issuing an environmental impact statement. Morton (1972). In this case involving offshore drilling, the D.C. This is a D.C.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 22, 2025
The tribe also is challenging state permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for Enbridge to construct a 41-mile bypass across protected forest and wetlands. Meanwhile in Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel is nearing a decision in her six-year-old state lawsuit to halt oil from crossing the Straits.
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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The discussion that day ranged widely, touching on his background , environmental and natural resources law, what it was like to be a Justice, what he valued in a clerk, and the active role poetry played in his life. I had never met a judge before, and hadn’t really considered the idea of a clerkship.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2024
On October 28, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources State Parks Director John Hallas celebrated the induction of Erie Bluffs State Park in Erie County into the national Old-Growth Forest Network , an organization that connects people with nature by creating a national network of protected forests.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. According to oversight documents, during 2021 Illinois’ Department of Natural Resources spent an average of $17,000 per acre cleaning up sites abandoned prior to 1977. Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 28, 2025
On April 28, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources celebrated the addition of two forest tracts in the Pennsylvania Wilds into the national Old-Growth Forest Network : Colton Point State Park in Tioga County and the Tiadaghton State Forests Bark Cabin Natural Area in Lycoming County.
Legal Planet
JUNE 29, 2021
The 2012 MS4 Permit in a Nutshell. The MS4 permit currently in effect was issued in 2012 and re-adopted the receiving water limitations—or the maximum amount of a pollutant that may be added to a specified water body—from the earlier permit established in 2001. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court. The Proposed 2021 MS4 Permit.
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