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Courts in two recent decisions refuse to expand the regulatory authority of the EPA under the Clean Water Act

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 9 2013

Two recent cases have signaled that federal courts remain willing to resist efforts by EPA to expand the scope of its regulatory authority under the Clean

US Supreme Court accepts certiorari in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District confiscatory takings case

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2012

On Friday, October 5, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, an appeal from the Florida Supreme Court

D.C. Circuit court vacates EPA’s cross-state emissions rule

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2012

In a 2-1 decision issued today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in EME Homer City Generation, L.P v. EPA, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its statutory authority in adopting the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR or Transport Rule

House hearings on litigation costs paid by the government in Endangered Species Act cases

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2012

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings (Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee) held a hearing entitled "Taxpayer Funded Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and Harming Species, Jobs and Schools."

Corps drops appeal over wetlands rules

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2011

As we wrote earlier, in New Hope Power Company and Okeelanta Corporation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers and Steven L. Stockton, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore of the Southern District of Florida enjoined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' from enforcing its guidance documents, which modified the Corps's interpretation of its wetlands regulations