"Clean Water Act: WOTUS Lawsuits Start Long, Muddy Legal Battle"
"Get ready for a surge of lawsuits over the Trump administration's decision to walk back Obama-era protections for wetlands and streams."
Source: Greenwire, 10/25/2019
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"Environmental Groups Sue Over Trump Rollback of Waters Rule"
"The National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and nine other groups sued Oct. 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, accusing the federal government of breaking the law in its rollback of the 2015 Clean Water Rule."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/24/2019
Wetlands: Calif. Sues EPA For Nixing Protection Of S.F. Bay Salt Ponds
"California sued the Trump administration today over EPA's refusal to extend Clean Water Act protections to salt ponds in San Francisco Bay."
Source: Greenwire, 09/25/2019
"Trump Administration Rolls Back Clean Water Protection"
"The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water."
Source: NY Times, 09/13/2019
"Pipeline Companies Seize Land Rights With Eminent Domain"
"In the patchwork of rice fields and pastures spreading across southwest Louisiana is a parcel Jay Lewis’ family has called their own for longer than anyone can remember."
Source: Southerly, 09/03/2019
"Fracking Boom Tied To Methane Spike In Earth’s Atmosphere"
"Scientists have measured big increases in the amount of methane, the powerful global warming gas, entering the atmosphere over the last decade. Cows or wetlands have been fingered as possible sources, but new research points to methane emissions from fossil fuel production—mainly from shale gas operations in the United States and Canada—as the culprit."
Source: National Geographic, 08/16/2019
Records: Upper Peninsula Mine Approved Despite Major Concerns
"Over and over, Michigan environmental regulators sounded alarms as they reviewed a proposed large, open-pit ore mine in the Upper Peninsula near the Menominee River, prized for walleye fishing and a major tributary to Lake Michigan. ... Then the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and then-Michigan Department of Environmental Quality approved the mine anyway."
Source: Detroit Free Press, 08/14/2019
"Booker Floats 'Nature-Based' Climate Strategy"
"Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Thursday unveiled draft legislation to encourage tree-planting, sustainable agriculture and other 'nature-based' strategies to address climate change."
Source: Politico, 08/09/2019
"Beavers Work Hard For River Ecosystems"
"Development and climate change are top threats to wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and in the arid west, water supply is a consistent concern for all kinds of life. But ecologists see a simple, natural way for ecosystems to be more resilient: beavers."
Source: Aspen Public Radio, 07/25/2019
Texas Judge Finds Formosa 'Serial Offender' As Louisiana Fight Looms
"A Texas federal judge has found a huge Formosa plastics complex northeast of Corpus Christi to be a 'serial offender' with a history of allowing plastic pellets to wash into wetlands and bays along the Gulf of Mexico, and said that the company has committed 'enormous' violations of state law and the U.S. Clean Water Act."
Source: Baton Rouge Advocate, 07/01/2019
