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Senate Bill (SB) 131 includes important California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for qualified advanced manufacturing projects, health centers and rural clinics, childcare centers, food banks, farmworker...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Utah County, Utah entered into an April 23rd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. See Docket No. CWA-08-2025-0008....more
Key Takeaways - What is Happening? The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) published for public comment its proposed 2026 Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSWGP), which authorizes stormwater discharges...more
Key Takeaways - What Happened? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final modification to its 2022 Construction General Permit (CGP) to expand the list of areas eligible for coverage to include...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and JS, LLC (“JS”) entered into a February 19th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Construction Stormwater General Permit. See Order No. 7459...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Oltmans Development, Inc. (“ODI”) entered into a December 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
Colorado authorities recently published proposed regulations that will have major implications for construction and development projects that impact state waters. The regulations establish a permitting system for projects...more
On Aug. 28–29, 2024, approximately 50 people gathered at the University of California San Diego Extension to learn about the California State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Water Board) reissuance of the Construction...more
Regional Boards’ enforcement of the Construction General Permit (CGP) and Industrial General Permit (IGP) continues to yield high penalty figures; transition to 2022 CGP brings new requirements; and the forthcoming...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (“D.C. Circuit”) recently upheld two FERC orders granting natural gas pipeline developers’ requests to extend their construction deadlines. The D.C. Circuit...more
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) (“Corps”) issued a March 6th Public Notice stating that it is proposing to reissue Department of the Army General Permit 32 (“GP32”)....more
Municipalities, landowners, developers, and others engaged in construction activities in California have faced increasing regulatory scrutiny over alleged stormwater discharge violations in recent years, including a record...more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an opinion in Sackett v. EPA that established a stricter test for whether the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to a wetland. The test limits federal jurisdiction to wetlands with a...more
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on a long-standing controversy over the extent to which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE; collectively, the Agencies) have...more
Dear YouDig?, We bought a gorgeous waterfront lot on the shores of Lake Erie near the adventurous Lake Erie Islands. We love being on the water and we love boating so naturally we wanted our own dock and breakwall. Turns...more
The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Army Corps”) delivered on their commitment to issue a new rule defining “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”) by the end of 2022, releasing a...more
This is a review of initial Supreme Court and Federal Appeals Courts oral arguments and other matters in October 2022. Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court - Michael Sackett, et ux., v. Environmental Protection Agency The...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) is considering proposed changes to its Short-Term Activity Authorizations (“STAAs”) application process. The Arkansas...more
After passage in both houses of Congress, the highly-anticipated $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation package, more commonly referred to as the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” (“Act”), has headed to President...more
The Sierra Club and other environmental organizations filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the United States Army Corps...more
No one can escape the basic rules of contracting, even the federal government. If the contract is clear and unambiguous, then the four corners of the agreement set the rules for the project and the parties – and there’s not...more
On December 3, 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and other agencies (collectively, “Agencies”) announced an update to the standard Bank...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Little Rock (“Little Rock”) entered into a June 19th Permit Appeal Resolution (“PAR”) addressing a previously filed...more
On June 4, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order to provide federal agencies the foundation to speed up environmental permitting in the wake of COVID-19. ...more
N. Plains Res. Council v. United States Army Corps of Eng’rs, No. 4:19-cv-00044-BMM, 2020 BL 35412 (9th Cir. May 14, 2020) - Oil and gas pipeline construction may no longer proceed under Nationwide Water Permit 12 (“NWP...more