A federal court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has ruled that seven consolidated suits over landfill pollution were properly removed to federal court.

In June 2019, the U.S. EPA's Office of Enforcement & Compliance Assurance announced that it has selected six National Compliance Initiatives

On June 10, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would review a Montana Supreme Court decision that has important implications for cleanup of sites under the federal Comprehensive

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled on May 28, 2019 that the Obama administration erred when it crafted the Waters of the U.S. ("WOTUS") regulation

On May 13, 2019, a California jury awarded over two billion dollars to a husband and wife who alleged that they each developed cancer as a result of decades of using Monsanto's weed-killer Roundup.

Claims against Caterpillar Global Mining LLC survived Caterpillar's Motion to Dismiss on the ground that the allegations were merely conclusory in a CERCLA cost recovery claim before the U.S.

The Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law will celebrate its 20th anniversary with an environmental law seminar and conference on Friday, January 18, 2019,

Federal Appellate Court Rules That Coal Ash Ponds Not Subject To CWA

At issue in Altamaha Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Rayonier Performance Fibers, LLC et al., 2018 WL 2947915, Case No. A18A0594 (Ga. App. June 13, 2018), was the definition of the phrase "interferes with legitimate water uses" in the narrative standard established by Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 391-3-6-.03 (5)(c).

In Barrow, the plaintiff-property owner filed an administrative appeal of the LAS permit and alleged that the partially treated wastewater sprayed by the City at the LAS site would runoff the site...

On February 1, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision concluding that the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to claims involving the discharge of pollutants...

On May 12, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia issued a decision concluding that the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to claims involving the discharge of pollutants...

Given the conflicting decisions, it is very likely that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will soon address the CWA-groundwater pathway issue.

In a split 2-1 decision, the 2d Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed EPA's 2008 "Water Transfer Rule" which exempted water management facilities from obtaining Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits.

Relying on its new authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which was amended in summer 2016, EPA announced a proposed rule on December 7, 2016 which would ban trichloroethylene (TCE)...