UC BERKELEY: White House rule dramatically deregulated wetlands, streams, and drinking water UC Berkeley News January 26, 2024 166From UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the “waters of the United States”...
AG ALERT: New ‘waters of the U.S.’ rule still problematic for farmers Ag Alert News September 12, 2023 71By Ching Lee, California Farm Bureau Federation After the U.S. Supreme Court set boundaries for what bodies of water the...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: EPA rolls back federal water protections following high court decision Courthouse News Service News August 29, 2023 111Bound by a recent Supreme Court decision, a new Biden administration rule weakens Clean Water Act protections for millions of...
NOTICE: U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Sackett – Army Corps Approved Jurisdictional Determinations (AJDs) Paused Press Release/Notice ANNOUNCEMENTS May 30, 2023 387From the Army Corps of Engineers: On May 25, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the...
STATE WATER BOARD: U.S. Supreme Court decision decreases federal wetlands protection Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other May 5, 2023 1Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision today that significantly reduces...
AG ALERT: Groups sue over legality of new ‘waters of the U.S.’ law Ag Alert News January 25, 2023By Ag Alert The American Farm Bureau Federation and other agricultural and business groups are suing federal agencies, challenging the...
AG ALERT: Final rule seen as muddying waters for ag landowners Ag Alert News January 11, 2023By Ching Lee, Ag Alert In its latest attempt to define which bodies of water fall under federal protection, the...
AG ALERT: Waters of the U.S. rule needs clarity, farm groups say Ag Alert News June 22, 2022By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California Farm Bureau President Jamie Johansson told leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency and the...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Biden EPA pulls plug on Trump-era water rule Courthouse News Service News June 9, 2021 2The latest bend in a decades-long battle has the federal government working to restore protections undone by the Trump administration...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists challenge Trump rollback of water protections Courthouse News Service News June 25, 2020Legal challenges continue to mount over the White House rolling back protections for America’s waterways, with the latest brought in...
THE CONVERSATION: Repealing the Clean Water Rule will swamp the Trump administration in wetland litigation The Conversation News September 24, 2019Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School, for The Conversation The question of which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water...
WOTS Up? An Update Regarding Regulation of Waters of the State and Waters of the United States Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and Features June 12, 2019 2162Attorney Mary Lynn Coffee unpacks the new wetland regulations and Waters of the State rule, plus a look at the...
THE CONVERSATION: Small streams and wetlands are key parts of river networks – here’s why they need protection The Conversation News January 30, 2019Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, for The Conversation The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Trump White House to Unwind Wetlands Protections Courthouse News Service News December 11, 2018The Trump administration unveiled a plan Tuesday to drain federal protections for wetlands and other isolated bodies of water, doing...
