The budget reconciliation bill signed into law on July 4 (also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill”) adds a new provision to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that allows project sponsors/applicants to pay for...more
The Environmental Integrity Project and other organizations filed a September 20th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to Neville...more
Tag-teaming with Florida’s Sixth District Court of Appeal, the Second District is also at odds with the Third and Fourth Districts on the issue of retroactive application of Florida’s litigation-intent statute. In Buis v....more
The Environmental Integrity Project (“EIP”) sent a May 2nd Clean Water Act Notice of Intent (“NOI”) to sue to the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) for alleged violation of a nondiscretionary duty under that statute....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Southeast Gravel Company, Inc., (“Southeast”) entered into an October 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
In Berry v. Connections Community Support Programs, Inc., the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Delaware Superior Court’s decision wherein it refused to validate a properly served Notice of Intent to Investigate (Notice of...more
On July 1, 2015, the new California Industrial General Permit for Stormwater (General Permit) will take effect and along with it come a host of new compliance obligations. Chief among those obligations is the completion and...more
It may seem like a distant memory at this point, but as you may recall, in May of 2012, the General Assembly passed, and Governor Malloy signed, a new law (Public Act 12-43, now codified at Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51rr that...more