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Welcome to the April edition of Nutter’s Environment & Energy Insights, a periodic update of current trends in environment and energy law. This month we cover: EPA is changing the meaning of “waters of the United States.”...more
Ranking members from both the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment prepared an analysis titled: Murky Water: Navigating...more
United States District Judge (Southern District of Texas) Jeffrey Vincent Brown (“Court”) issued a March 19th Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Preliminary Injunction (“Order”) addressing a challenge to a final rule...more
The United States Supreme Court (“SCourt”) issued an April 23rd decision in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. See No. 18-260. The case involves whether, and to what extent, a discharge of pollutants...more
February 2019 In Short The Situation: The definition of "waters of the United States" in the Clean Water Act ("CWA") circumscribes the jurisdictional authority of the federal government under the Act. This impacts not just...more
A trilogy of recent federal and state enforcement actions show just how far agencies will go to enforce environmental regulations. Now may be a good time for a compliance audit....more
Thousands of comments have been submitted in regards to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and United States Army Corps of Engineers (collectively “Agencies”) July 27th, 2017 proposed rule titled: Waters...more