A district court dismissed as time barred environmental groups' CWA and APA claims challenging EPA's list of dispersants and other projects that may be used in the event of an oil spill. The groups asserted that the list, called the NCP Product Schedule, fails to specify the waters or quantities in ...

The Federal Claims Court held that §1603(a) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, which requires partial reimbursement for certain "energy property," does not give rise to a claim for consequential damages resulting from the denial of such reimbursement. After the U.S. Treasury...

A district court denied EPA's motion to dismiss a poultry farmer's lawsuit against the Agency seeking a declaratory judgment that farmyard stormwater runoff is statutorily exempt from regulation as an agricultural stormwater discharge. In 2011, EPA issued a compliance order to the farmer requiring h...