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By Deborah Quick Congress sought to diminish state discretion to regulate six specific air pollutants by its 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. Those…
By Geremy Holm and Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia recently granted a motion to dismiss a Clean Water…
By Wesley A. Miliband and Kristopher T. Strouse On January 20, 2021, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB or Board) voted unanimously in favor…
By Stephen Odell The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that water rights holders could not independently secure judicial review, outside the statutory process prescribed for…
By James Purvis Various conservation groups brought suit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore…
By Paige Gosney In December 2020, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) finalized for the very first time a regulatory definition for the term…
By Geremy Holm and Steve Anderson In December 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, HR 133, 166th Congress (2020) was passed and signed into…
By Nicole Granquist, Meghan Quinn and Meredith Nikkel On January 14, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized guidance regarding the implementation of the…
By Harvey M. Sheldon In a move that surprised some observers of the Flint Michigan drinking water crisis and saga, the former Governor of Michigan,…
By Michele A. Staples The California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) updated its General Plan Environmental Justice Element Guidelines in June 2020 to…
