June 3, 2024 IDWR Issues Unprecedented Order Curtailing Widespread ESPA Ground Water Users On May 30, 2024, the Director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued a Final Order Curtailing Ground Water Rights Junior to March 31, 1954 (Curtailment Order) as part of his administration of the ongoing […]
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 […]
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.