On August 20, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a major win in United States v. Ameren Missouri, No. 19-3220, upholding EPA’s right to seek injunctive relief for “wholly past” violations and […]
July 12, 2021 MGKF Summer Associate Omar Khodor MGKF Litigation Blog On June 23, 2021, the Ninth Circuit, in directing the lower court to dismiss a citizen’s suit claim under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), held that the CWA did not abrogate tribal sovereign immunity. Deschutes River All. v. Portland Gen. […]
July 7, 2021 MGKF Summer Associate Brielle Brown MGKF Litigation Blog A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit held on January 29, 2021 that air emission exceedances governed by a state air permit and duly reported to state or local authorities pursuant to the permit need not be reported again […]
West Palm Beach, Fla., August 18, 2021 – Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. President and Shareholder Michelle Diffenderfer was recently elected Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (ABA SEER). She will serve a one-year term, through August 2022. “I am excited and honored […]
August 18, 2021 In Wake of Historic Wildfires, Redundant Water Supplies Increasingly Important for Municipalities, Other Water Users, Across the West Like many cities across the West, Glenwood Springs, Colorado (Glenwood) has been forced to restrict residential water use this summer. But rather than drought, or lack of supply, the […]