[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
Various municipalities and public wastewater and stormwater utilities have filed a joint Amici Curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court Case styled: City and County of San Francisco v EPA...more
As predicted in February, our nation's highest court is about to hear its third Clean Water Act in four years. Anyone who doubts the outcome of this case hasn't read the other two Supreme Court opinions and that brings to...more
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has drafted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) facilities. Our Environment, Land Use & Natural...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Countryside Land & Cattle Co., LLC (“Countryside”) entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
On December 24, 2022, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (“PADEP”) Bureau of Clean Water reissued the PAG-03 NPDES General Permit for stormwater discharges associated with industrial activity for a new,...more
A number of water quality organizations in coordination with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) developed a March 2022 report titled: Navigating the NPDES Permitting Process for Water Reuse...more
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ’s) policy and rulemaking board adopted rules renewing Oregon’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Discharge General Permit No. 1200-Z (1200-Z...more
AB 377, entitled the “California Clean Water Act,” introduced by Assemblymember Rivas in February 2021, includes provisions to eliminate all “impaired waterways” and make all waters in California suitable for drinking,...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and American Air Filter Company, Inc., (“AAFC”) entered into a December 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
A United States District Court (Central District of California) (“Court”) addressed in an August 9th opinion an issue involving the application of the Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”)...more
The environmental organizations Riverkeeper, Inc. and Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. (collectively “Waterkeeper”) filed an action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against the New York State Department of...more
On Wednesday, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board approved amendments to its regional National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permit, Order No. R9-2013-0001, regulating discharges from large...more