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On September 24, 2018, the Sixth Circuit held that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not apply to pollutants that travel through...
Tags: Environment
On August 16, 2018, a federal district court judge in South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction which halts the effectiveness...
Tags: Environment
On August 3, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated another municipal zoning decision favorable to oil and gas development....
Tags: Municipal Ordinances, Municipal Zoning, Oil and Gas, Energy,
On June 29, 2018, USEPA issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Supplemental Notice”) to its July 2017 proposed...
Tags: Environment
On May 1, 2018, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota affirmed a Magistrate’s decision to...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Army Corps, U.S. EPA,
On April 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming denied a motion to stay its April 4, 2018 order staying...
Tags: Waste Prevention Rule, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, Environment
On February 15, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied an appeal of a mandamus action seeking to force ODNR to rescind temporary...
Tags: Tenth District Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Ohio, oil and gas resources, FWAP,
This post provides an important update to our January 22, 2018 entry. On January 31, 2018, U.S. EPA and the Army Corp finalized a...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Environment
On January 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that lawsuits challenging the joint EPA-Army Corps rule defining “waters of the...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
On August 14th, 2017, the U.S. EPA issued new guidance for the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) Nanoscale Rule regulating...
Tags: Toxic Substances Control Act, The Nanoscale Rule, U.S. EPA, Environment
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