Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Supreme Court begins its October term today with a wetlands lawsuit that could redefine the Clean Water Act. Tribes tell the Bureau of Reclamation to prioritize long-term infrastructure solutions for the $4 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds for western drought response. By the Numbers. News Briefs. Today the U.S.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
” In 2023, the Supreme Court ended fifty years of broad federal protection to wetlands in Sackett v. 1972 , Congress passes the Clean Water Act, which requires a federal permit for filling or dredging in “navigable waters,” defined as the “waters of the United States.” United States. In Sackett v.
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Acoel
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
As some of you know, Section 401 of the Clean Water Act requires that States and Tribes have the opportunity to certify their acceptance of activities that may result in a “discharge” into a “Water of the United States” before the Federal government issues a permit or license authorizing those activities.
E2 Law Blog
MAY 26, 2023
The Sacketts challenged the order, claiming that the wetlands are not jurisdictional “waters of the United States” within the meaning of the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1389 (CWA). Thus began nearly two decades of litigation, culminating in the Supreme Court’s May 25, 2023 decision in Sackett v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
Industrial meat and poultry slaughterhouses dump millions of pounds of pollutants into the nation’s waters every year. The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution.
ESA
MARCH 6, 2023
In this issue: Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy leaders appeal for input from ecologists in a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment editorial. s lands, waters and wildlife and the specific benefits that they provide. Led by the U.S.
Circle of Blue
MAY 3, 2023
The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters. Amidst drought, farmers in southern Taiwan are being paid not to grow crops as the government reserves water for semiconductor production.
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