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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released the final notice of sale for commercial wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released the final notice of sale for commercial wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.
EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for West Virginia’s Combined 2018-2020-2022 Section 303(d) list and seeks comment on those additions.
EPA Region 10 proposed to modify the NPDES general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations in Idaho excluding tribal lands.
EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Gunpowder Riverkeeper v. Regan, No. 1:20-cv-02063 (D.D.C.), concerning allegations that the Agency's approval of Maryland’s submission of TMDLs of PCBs for the Gunpowder and Bird Rivers was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the APA.
A district court granted EPA's and the Army Corps of Engineers' motion to stay Texas' and Idaho's challenge to the Biden Administration's 2023 rule revising the definition of "waters of the United States" under the CWA. The court stayed the suit until publication in the Federal Register of the agenc...
The Tenth Circuit affirmed denial of conservation groups' claims in a lawsuit concerning the Bureau of Reclamation's decision to sign a water contract allowing the state of Utah to draw from reservoir releases rather than the Green River and its tributaries. The groups argued the Bureau violated NEP...
United States v. Sandy, Oregon, City of, No. 23-cv-968 (D. Or. June 30, 2023). A settling CWA defendant must perform injunctive relief measures to ensure future compliance, pay a penalty of $250,000 to the United States, pay a penalty of $50,000 to the state of Oregon, and perform a state supplemental environmental project valued at $200,000 for failing to comply with the requirements of its NPDES permits.
United States v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, No. 3:15-CV-02283 (D.P.R. June 29, 2023). Under a proposed modification to a consent decree, a settling CWA defendant is granted a deadline extension on implementing projects to address wastewater discharges from drinking water treatment plants.
United States v. Messer LLC, No. 5:23-cv-0023-JPB (N.D.W. Va. June 22, 2023). A settling CWA defendant that violated NPDES permit numeric effluent limits with respect to wastewater discharges from its industrial gas manufacturing plant in New Cumberland, West Virginia, must perform injunctive relief, including operation of a newly installed copper treatment system by certain deadlines, implementation of a tiered effluent limit response plan, and revision and routine performance of stormwater best management practice measures; and pay a $1.9 million civil penalty.