Environmentalists scored a significant victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday with help from some unusual suspects. In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer, two of the court’s conservatives–Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh–joined with the four-member liberal minority in order to strengthen a key provision of the Clean Water […]
SCOTUS OPINION: County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund…
Administration Finalizes Repeal of 2015 Water Rule Trump Called ‘Destructive and Horrible’…
For years, the fight over how much power the federal government should have to regulate the wetlands and tributaries that feed into the nation’s largest rivers has played out across the country. In the halls of Washington and on sprawling farms and ranches, in courtrooms and corporate boardrooms, a legal tug of war has unfolded […]
Trump Signs Order To Roll Back Obama’s ‘Waters Of the U.S.’ Rule…
President Donald Trump will order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulation, effectively repealing another major Obama-era policy. Trump wants the EPA and the Corps to make sure “waters are kept free from pollution, while at the same time promoting economic […]
Executive Order: …Reviewing the “Waters of the United States” Rule…
Obama Orders North Dakota Pipeline Construction to Stop…
The Obama administration said it would not authorize construction on a critical stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, handing a significant victory to the Indian tribe fighting the project…