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On December 16, President Obama signed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, S. 612 (WIIN). WIIN authorizes funds for Flint, Michigan, various western water projects and some drought relief for California.

In 2022, New York expanded its wetlands law, but recent court rulings have annulled DEC’s regulations, leaving landowners without guidance and shifting the burden to prove wetlands are regulated

Directs agencies to expedite all federal permitting, funding, and technical measures to block invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes...

Revokes Executive Order 13508 and directs Federal agencies supporting Chesapeake Bay restoration to prioritize funding and resources toward measurable...

The rift also comes at a time when the U.S. gas transmission network is undergoing significant expansion.

Since 1997, the White House Council on Environmental Quality has been working to issue guidance on how and when federal agencies should account for the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act

If a county, city or town contributes a pollutant of concern to a waterbody it may need to modify its municipal stormwater management program to meet state and federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations. Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and the Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) will require MS4 communities to make improvements and retrofits to existing stormwater management programs.

Modifies several existing marine national monument proclamations to remove monument-based prohibitions on commercial fishing in designated areas of the Pacific Ocean, including portions of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument.

Directs federal agencies to revise recreational fisheries management policies, modernize recreational fishing data collection, streamline permitting and marine access regulations, establish artificial reef programs and prioritize recreational fishing interests in federal ocean and coastal resource management decisions.

On March 4, 2026, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) will hold a hearing on a discussion draft...

Both republican and democratic senators from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have met to discuss potential paths forward for a multi-year reauthorization of the Brownfield Program.

Environmental partner Ethan Shenkman was quoted in a recent RTO Insider article, "Trump Brings Uncertainty to ISO-NE, Regulators."

The IRS issued a relatively brief Private Letter Ruling 201310001 holding that an Indian tribal government is neither a governmental unit described in Section 50(b)(4) nor an organization exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 for purposes of Section 50 of the Code.

Revokes the September 27, 2023 Presidential Memorandum on restoring fish populations in the Columbia River Basin and directs relevant agencies to withdraw from the associated litigation MOU...

The Supreme Court unanimously found that approved jurisdictional determinations issued by the Army Corps may be challenged in federal district court under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Copper smelting operations by Atlantic Richfield Co. were responsible for contaminating approximately 100 landowners' property in Opportunity, Montana.

In the past several years, systems for rating corporate sustainability regimes have burgeoned, and more than 100 ratings, rankings, and indices are now available for use by investors, consumers, and others interested in comparing one company to another based on its sustainability and corporate responsibility program.

In a December 19, 2016 Order, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals delayed oral argument in the Ozone NAAQS litigation. Originally scheduled for February 16, 2017...