Clean Water Act Conservation Law 
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
In choosing the top environmental laws, I wanted to focus on those with the largest impacts on the environment, not just those that are most important to environmental lawyers or best known. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2024
This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. the EPA or FDA), staffed with experts, to interpret and implement laws within their purview effectively.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 17, 2024
It is mind- bog -gling, syllable pun intended, that scientists still do not know how many wetlands lost protection in last year’s crippling of the Clean Water Act by the Supreme Court. The court was unanimous in saying that in the case of that couple, the EPA overstepped its authority.
Acoel
APRIL 23, 2025
This year marks my 50 th year practicing environmental law. In 1967, I graduated from Brandeis University and worked that summer in Edison, NJ as an analytical chemist for one of EPAs predecessorsthe Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, not appreciating any potential relevance to my future profession.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If There’s no excuse for these blooms to be happening in Michigan.”. The USDA spends $8.2
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned. With any of these rules, a well-funded litigant could find a friendly judge who thinks the underlying laws are too “ambiguous” to allow these rules to stand.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.
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