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The Clean Water Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 1972 to reduce levels of toxic substances in the nation's water supply and to prevent high levels of new contamination. The CWA seeks to accomplish its stated goals by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, assisting wastewater treatment facilities and maintaining wetlands. less -

United States Supreme Court Administrative Law Decisions of Note During the 2024-2025 Term

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/15/2025

In this update, we cover the most impactful Supreme Court cases related to administrative law issues decided during the 2024-2025 term. The Supreme Court decided important administrative law cases falling into these general...more

Sackett v. EPA: What's Next for Clean Water Act Jurisdiction?

Venable LLP on 5/31/2023

Clean Water Act practitioners have spent the past 50 years learning how to identify a wetland or water body that qualifies for federal jurisdiction—and the past 17 parsing the phrase "significant nexus." The upshot was that...more

WOTUS Rule Finalized: What Does it Mean?

Lippes Mathias LLP on 1/18/2023

Following decades of regulatory actions and lawsuits concerning the definition of “waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act, on December 30, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army...more

SCOTUS Stays District Court Remand of ‎Trump EPA State Water ‎Quality Certification ‎Rules, Raises ‎Stakes for Upcoming EPA...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/7/2022

On April 6, 2022, the Supreme Court stayed an October 21, 2021 Northern District of California Court ruling that vacated and remanded EPA’s 2020 revisions to the processes for states to certify water quality impacts from...more

Muddied Groundwater: New Supreme Court Test Adds Confusion and Uncertainty to Clean Water Act Permitting Jurisdiction

K&L Gates LLP on 4/29/2020

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its much-awaited decision in County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund on whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) regulates the discharge of pollutants that pass through groundwater...more

U.S. Supreme Court Finds That Clean Water Act’s Permitting Requirements Can Extend to Discharges Through Groundwater

Jackson Walker on 4/24/2020

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, which established a new test to determine the permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The case...more

SCOTUS Update: Environmental and Administrative Law Cases Decided in 2017

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 7/25/2017

The 2016 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court was fairly quiet, perhaps reflecting the fact that with only eight members, the Court needed a working consensus to handle its docket. The Court handed down seventy rulings, but only a...more

Energy Sector Alert Series: Supreme Court Cases to Watch

WilmerHale on 10/14/2016

In this eight-week alert series, we are providing a broad look at current and emerging issues facing the energy sector. Lawyers from across the firm are discussing issues ranging from cybersecurity, antitrust and intellectual...more

In a Victory for Businesses and Developers, the United States Supreme Court Holds that Clean Water Act Jurisdictional...

Snell & Wilmer on 6/1/2016

The United States Supreme Court ruled today that an approved jurisdictional determination under the Clean Water Act constitutes an immediately appealable agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 500...more

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