Although irrigation districts have not been subject to Clean Water Act enforcement, there has been a bit of unease, Washington State Water Resources Association executive director John Stuhlmiller ...

The Clean Water Act “drives industry crazy,” Caputo says. “It’s agribusiness, it’s property developers, it’s the oil and gas guys. A whole suite of industry is really hostile to ...

The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the "waters of the United States" but does not precisely define which streams and wetlands this phrase covers, leaving it to presidential administrations ...

That's a different standard than the Justice Alito-supplied standard the three Fifth Circuit Judges applied in holding that the Lewis property was not subject to Clean Water Act jurisdiction even ...

Clean Water Act’s authority The CWA authorizes the ACOE and USEPA to administer Section 404 permitting and enforcement that prohibits unpermitted discharges of dredge and fill in wetlands. Section 402 ...

But they published four separate opinions that showed a 5-4 split in how far they would allow federal jurisdiction to extend, with the conservative majority ruling to significantly narrow federal ...

Those water bodies would appear to fall outside of federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction in light of the Sackett ruling, potentially removing the requirement for a Section 404 permit and a trigger ...

WOTUS at SCOTUS: Supreme Court Shrinks Clean Water Act Jurisdiction over Wetlands by: William S. Buddy Cox III of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP - Insights and Events Friday, June 9, 2023 ...

May 27, 2023 U.S. Supreme Court narrows scope of Clean Water Act The definition of wetlands has changed, but the nine justices expressed varying opinions on how far federal jurisdiction should extend ...

News High Court Curbs EPA's Clean Water Act Jurisdiction, Reducing Definition of US Waters A fractured decision from the justices reins in the EPA's regulation of wetlands. May 25, 2023 at 04:18 PM ...

“The Court’s ruling returns the scope of the Clean Water Act to its original and proper limits,” Schiff, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a statement.