El Congreso de la República de Colombia aprobó el pasado 8 de agosto la Ley 2415 de 2024, por medio de la cual se declaró el Río Ranchería como sujeto de derechos, reconociéndole al río los derechos de conservación,...more
On May 23, 2024, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a published opinion in Natural Resources Defense Council et al. v. Debra Haaland et al. (Case No. 21-15163) (“NRDC v. Haaland”) rejecting the plaintiffs’ challenges...more
We are pleased to introduce the inaugural issue of the Real Estate Round Up, a monthly update on current trends, with the first month focusing on Environment and Energy insights. This month’s edition features key topics such...more
The organization American Rivers has issued its annual list of what it describes as “America’s Most Endangered Rivers”. The organization, American Rivers, describes itself as: …championing a national...more
Powerful pumps that supply much of California’s population with water have killed several thousand threatened and endangered fish this year, prompting environmental groups to demand that state and federal agencies take...more
El Senado de Colombia aprobó en primer debate el 5 de marzo de 2024, el Proyecto de Ley No. 038 de 2023, "Por medio de la cual se declara al río Magdalena, su cuenca, afluentes y desembocadura, como sujeto de derechos y se...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered an individual (Lozman) to remove a shipping container and floating docks from the Lake Worth Lagoon which is located near Palm Beach, Florida. ...more
In response to critics who said that proposed new statewide water conservation rules — aimed at cutting urban water use even in years when California is not in a drought — were too complicated and costly, the State Water...more
Top water officials for the seven Colorado River Basin states met in December 2023 at the Colorado River Water Users Association conference to resume negotiating a new compromise for how they will share — and cut back on —...more
On May 22, Arizona, Nevada, and California sent a letter to the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) that announced their agreement to conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of Colorado River water...more
This is a brief roundup of recent federal court environmental and regulatory law decisions from the federal courts over the past few months, including the much anticipated ruling in Sackett, et ux., v, Environmental...more
A federal judge in North Dakota on Wednesday temporarily blocked implementation of a Biden administration rule establishing protections under the federal Clean Water Act for seasonal streams and wetlands in 24 states....more
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has released its Near-term Colorado River Operations Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, analyzing three paths forward for managing the Colorado River in light of the potentially...more
Hosted by The Canadian Institute, the 11th National Symposium on Cumulative Effects Assessment and Environmental Management returns for another exciting year with curated programming that focuses on providing you with...more
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture announced that its Natural Resources Division (“NRD”) has approved $1.7 million in funding to implement nutrient-reduction related projects supporting the Mississippi River/Gulf of...more
Recently, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a concerned citizen against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and National Marine Fisheries...more
The Colorado River is a critical water source for more than 40 million people, vast agricultural operations, numerous industries, and a wide variety of ecological resources across the seven states that share its waters:...more
Recently, I was asked to moderate a panel to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. It gave me the opportunity to think about the power of environmental legislation, specifically in the context of maintaining...more
Less than two weeks ago, we wrote that the Department of Interior proposed reducing Colorado River deliveries in 2022 by 480,000 acre-feet and that Assistant Secretary Trujillo had asked the Basin States for comments on this...more
In an April 8, 2022 letter to each of the seven Colorado River basin states, the Interior Department asked for comments by April 22 about its plan to reduce releases from Glen Canyon Dam to 7.0 million acre-feet (maf) this...more
On March 28, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) published notice (“Notice”) that it is undertaking a formal review of Nationwide Permit (“NWP”) 12, one of over 50 general permits available nationwide that allow...more
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”) published its August 2021 24-Month Study on Monday, effectively declaring a shortage on the Colorado River for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The August study predicts that the...more
For decades, Florida blamed declining oyster harvests on the State of Georgia. And, for decades, Florida’s elected officials convinced the public they were not at fault. These theories were rejected, in total, by the United...more
On 1 April, the U.S. Supreme Court (the Court) put to rest the long-simmering dispute between Florida and Georgia over Georgia’s use of water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (the Basin) that Florida...more
In an April 1, 2021 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Florida’s exceptions to the decision of Special Master Judge Paul Kelly in its long-running dispute with Georgia over the use of water in the...more