Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 3, 2024
2023 was a rough year for clean water. The Supreme Court took a hammer to the Clean Water Act with its decision in Sackett v. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 21, 2023
Army Corps of Engineers for violating both the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act in a proposed expansion of a lakefront sediment dumping site. On Chicago’s Southeast Side, a Lawsuit to Protect Residents and Nature SEDIMENT LAWSUIT: Environmental activists on Chicago’s Southeast Side are suing the U.S.
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ESA
DECEMBER 20, 2021
White House: President Biden issued an executive order setting a course for the federal government to become carbon neutral by 2050. The executive order requires the federal government to only purchase energy from renewable sources by 2030 and to exclusively buy zero-emissions vehicles by 2035. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?
ESA
MARCH 6, 2023
Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.
ESA
APRIL 11, 2022
Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said. Currently, China’s emissions are slated to grow until sometime “before 2030.”
ESA
MARCH 20, 2023
Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. This includes funding to support the America the Beautiful initiative, which seeks to protect 30% of public lands and water by 2030 and $12 million for youth corps programs. lands and waters by 2030. lands and waters by 2030.
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The plaintiffs asserted that the Corps’ approval of modifications to the project violated the Rivers and Harbors Act and the Clean Water Act.
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