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EPA overreaching

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • April 9 2012

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has published its decision in Sackett v. EPA, an Idaho couple’s lawsuit challenging an Environmental Protection Agency administrative order issued to the couple after they partly filled a 0.63-acre lot to build their house without first obtaining a federal permit under the Clean Water Act

Sackett v. EPA: property owners may challenge EPA orders

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • April 2 2012

The United States Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrative orders under the Clean Water Act are subject to pre-enforcement judicial review

EPA seeks comment on minor reinterpretation of rules on PCBs in building materials

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • March 6 2012

Last week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requested public comment on a proposed reinterpretation of its PCB rules, billed as a step to accelerate removal of building materials containing PCBs

Sackett v. EPA: United States Supreme Court critical of EPA

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
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  • January 12 2012

On January 9, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Sackett v. EPA, a challenge by homeowners to EPA’s issuance of an enforcement order under the Clean Water Act (CWA