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The EPA has launched PFAS OUTreach to help communities reduce PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water ahead of federal compliance deadlines, targeting approximately 3,000 water systems with known contamination challenges. Meanwhile, the agency's spring 2025 regulatory agenda reveals plans to extend compliance deadlines for PFAS drinking water standards and potentially withdraw regulatory determinations for four additional PFAS substances including PFHxS, PFNA, and GenX.

Yesterday, I noted that the D.C. Circuit rejected challenges to EPA’s Enhanced Coordination Process and Final Guidance on Clean Water Act permitting for mining activities.

On February 6, 2018, the EPA formally suspended the Obama-era "Waters of the U.S." rule until 2020. This delayed implementation will provide the Trump administration with additional time to issue a clearer ...

On Aug. 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) adopted a new decision framework for operating Lake Powell and Lake Mead through 2036 and simultaneously issued...

EPA has been working to craft a general permit for small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems for quite some time.

A court of appeal has upheld Monterey County's approvals for a desalination plant, rejecting challengers' claims that uncertainty regarding the availability of source water for the plant...

Judge George Russell has ruled that EPA does not have non-discretionary duty under the Clean Water Act to determine whether commercial, institutional, and industrial users contribute to a violation of water quality criteria in the Back River watershed.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ("NJDEP") published interim soil and soil leachate remediation standards for PFNA, PFOA, PFOS, and GenX on October 17th.

Partner Kyle Johnson and counsel Anthony Boccamazzo joined HRP's "PFAS Pulse" podcast to discuss the future of class-action cases against companies that have exposed people to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

On January 10, 2025, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ("PHMSA") issued a proposed rule setting forth revisions to the federal Pipeline Safety Regulations ("PSR") (49 C.F.R. Parts 190-99)...

As part of a blitz of first-week executive actions, on Monday, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a brief memorandum titled "Putting People over Fish...

On May 25, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") issued a decision, Sackett v. EPA, which dramatically curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA")...

As reported in our November 2024 edition, the CWA is a comprehensive water quality statute intended to protect the "integrity of the Nation's waters." 33 U.S.C. § 1251(a).

A major focus of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is rehabilitation of water infrastructure, including ports, recreation and irrigation...

Late last month, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a public water supplier could be liable in a citizens' suit brought under the imminent and substantial endangerment provisions of RCRA...

For decades, the precise scope of the Clean Water Act's point source permitting program has been the subject of much controversy.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that challenges to the WOTUS Rule must be heard in the district courts. At a certain level, the decision was easy and obvious – as evidenced by the absence of any dissent.