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The Supreme Court has agreed to review two Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Clean Water Act ("CWA") cases.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Eighth Circuit's April 2015 ruling that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdictional determinations are final agency actions subject to judicial review.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the Eighth Circuit's April 2015 ruling that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' jurisdictional determinations are final agency actions subject to judicial review.

Across America, the cost of water is rising. Getting clean drinking water is not as easy as turning on the faucet.

Aging or absent sewers and other failing infrastructure, including pipes that carry wastewater to treatment plants, are contributing to water quality problems around the country, including across New York state.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 19, 2024, released a pre-publication version of its final rule classifying two per-and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS), and their salts...

Washington state is moving closer towards adopting standards for the group of compounds known as forever chemicals — per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

In What About Bob, a movie worth seeing only if you, like me, think every film including Bill Murray is worth seeing, the fictional guru Dr. Leo Marvin wrote a book called "Baby Steps."

Over a decade after California adopted its outdoor heat illness regulations, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is inching closer to adopting regulations

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia1 ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its statutory authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA).

he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently promulgated the first significant revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act in thirty years.

The Supreme Court's docket this term includes eight environmental caseF some of which have already been decided and some of which have not yet been argued.

The EPA and Army Corps have issued a supplemental proposal that would fundamentally reshape federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction by replacing the controversial "wet season" framework with a stricter "perennial water" standard. This alternative approach would require water features to flow continuously year-round under ordinary conditions, with limited exceptions for brief dry periods, potentially excluding vast areas—particularly in the arid West—from federal wetlands regulation.

On April 10, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced the first enforceable federal drinking water standards under the Safe Drinking Water Act ("SDWA")...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently promulgated the first significant revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act in thirty years.

In 2018, the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits issued at least five decisions concerning the indirect discharge theory.

Last week, District Judge Susan Mollway ruled that the County of Maui must obtain a NPDES permit for discharges to groundwater by the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility.

A little over five years ago, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation gave Federal Judge Richard Gergel of South Carolina the burden of disposing of any cases "alleg[ing] that AFFF....