Despite hopeful last-minute efforts, the 115th Congress failed to pass the AV Start Act, a bipartisan bill that would have been the first significant federal legislation on autonomous vehicles in the U.S. Meanwhile, vehicles...more
On August 21, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the long-awaited proposed rule to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP). The Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), signed by EPA Acting...more
The controversial Obama-era Waters of the United States Rule (2015 WOTUS Rule) was reinstated after a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina vacated the Trump Administration’s suspension...more
Next week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will take the next step in one of its 2018 priority items: mitigating contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The Environmental Protection Agency...more
Are pollutant discharges into groundwater that have a hydrologic connection to a water of the United States subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) regulation? For entities needing National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...more
The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari earlier this month after the Iowa Supreme Court held in June that the plaintiffs' nuisance claims were not pre-empted by the Clean Air Act (CAA) in Freeman v....more