Clean Water Act Law Natural Resources 
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. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., This deference allowed agencies (e.g., Raimondo and Relentless, Inc.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Fish and Wildlife Service regulations implementing the federal Endangered Species Act, evolving protections for the tricolored bat and northern long-eared bat, and potential policy implications of the 2024 election. Samuel Boden is an associate in the environment, land, and natural resources group in the Harrisburg office.
The Energy Law Blog
APRIL 28, 2020
where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311(a), 1362(12)(A); see also 33 U.S.C. 1342 (NPDES provisions).
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
According to scholar and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard, “environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities have a right to equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.”
The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 1, 2016
The Corps’ definition of whether property constitutes “waters of the United States” is significant because the Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into “the waters of the United States.” The Corps has defined the waters of the United States very broadly, along the lines of the Commerce Clause.
Acoel
APRIL 18, 2024
You might recall that when the City and County filed their appeal in February I predicted that this case would be responsible for EPA’s, DOJ’s and the Ninth Circuit’s third consecutive Clean Water Act defeat in our nation’s highest court. Maui on similar grounds.
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