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EPA may avoid a nationwide injunction against its most recent WOTUS rule, but the rule is still in hot water.

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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 in litigation filed by a North Carolina...more

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Environmental Justice Update: EPA Publishes Cumulative Risk Assessment Comments

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While increased enforcement resulting from increased federal focus on environmental justice (EJ) issues poses risk to many businesses, how (and perhaps whether) the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assesses and...more

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Environmental Justice Update: Differing State and Local Approaches to Federal Civil Rights Actions

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Addressing environmental justice (EJ) issues has been a primary concern for the Biden Administration. Recent developments — one in Chicago and one in Louisiana — show different ways local and state regulators have reacted to...more

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Environmental Justice Update: Louisiana NGOs Sue Parishes Regarding Allegedly “Racist” Nature of Industrial Permitting

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Louisiana has been at the center of the past year’s eruption of environmental-justice related enforcement activities. The complaint in Inclusive Louisiana et al. v. St. James Parish et al., found here, is tied to three...more

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