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What Happened? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final recommended aquatic life water quality criteria and benchmarks for two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...

Surprising no one, lawyers for EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers have implored the Supreme Court to affirm the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' application of Justice Kennedy's...

Additional summer work includes progress on the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency package and several bipartisan hydropower bills.

The EPA also installed two monitoring wells in the Pavillion area in 2010.

When EPA and the Corps of Engineers published their tenth attempt to determine the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act, I said the only question remaining was how many of the States...

On March 29, 2019, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the formation of a science advisory workgroup and her order for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE),

The 2023 New Mexico Legislative Session saw the enactment of the Regional Water System Resiliency Act, which enables the creation of regional water authorities to strengthen New Mexico's ...

On January 14, 2021, on the eve of President Biden's inauguration, EPA issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, seeking comment on whether PFOA and PFOS

On October 21, 2021, a U.S. District Court vacated the Trump Administration's rule that sought to limit the power of States and Indian Tribes under Section 401

The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) published for public comment its proposed 2026 Construction Stormwater General Permit (CSWGP)...

Last week the Waters Advocacy Coalition sent to the heads of the Environmental Protection Administration and the Corps of Engineers many "recommendations"...

Lara Beaven of Inside EPA reports that the House Appropriations Committee intends to give EPA every dollar it has requested to implement its ambitious and wide-ranging plan for addressing the ubiquitous "forever" chemicals known collectively as PFAS.

In April of 2020 the Supreme Court of the United States answered a yes or no question with a maybe. The question: does a discharge to groundwater require a permit under the Federal...

As detailed in Part 1 of this eAlert, on April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).

Just before the Thanksgiving holiday EPA issued draft guidance regarding when a discharge of a "pollutant" to groundwater is the "functional equivalent" of a discharge to a Water of the United States.

Less than ten days after setting drinking water standards for six of the hundreds of chemicals known collectively as PFAS, EPA has now identified two of those PFAS that have been widely used for decades, PFOA and PFOS, as hazardous substances under CERCLA.

Sam Hess of Inside EPA has a fulsome report on EPA's everything but the kitchen sink attempt to avoid a nationwide freeze of its most recent definition of Waters of the United States...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published the draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List, introducing microplastics and pharmaceuticals as priority contaminant groups for the first time in drinking water regulation.