May 21, 2024 IDWR’s Development of a Ground Water Management Plan for the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer A prior alert provided an overview of various administrative matters before the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) that share a common theme: increasing the regulation of pumping by junior ground water users […]
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by Michelle Diffenderfer and Katherine L. Hupp On Monday May 20, 2024, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (“D.C. Circuit”) denied Florida’s request to reinstate its Clean Water Act Section 404 assumed permitting program. As a result, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) will continue to process 404 […]
May 16, 2024 Last month, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule establishing, for the first time, nationwide limits on the presence of six types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. This new National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) set maximum contaminant levels […]
Posted by Eric L. Hiser, 3 EPA’s proposed revisions to NSR “project emissions accounting” were published in today’s Federal Register as “Prevention of Significant… Read more here.
EPA announced on April 9, 2024, the release of an updated “Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Materials Containing Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances.” According to EPA, the updated guidance “reflects the latest, best available science to provide information that managers of [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances […]