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High Court Hears NEPA Challenge for Proposed $1.5B Crude Oil Railway

Pam McFarland

December 13, 2024

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How a federal project review challenge is decided next year by US Supreme Court justices could limit the scope of what has been bedrock environmental law.

Environment

EPA Would Curb Coal Ash Disposal Exemptions at Legacy Sites

Jim Parsons

May 18, 2023

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Hundreds of ash disposal sites at inactive US power plants could be subject to new federal safety regulation under a rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Government

EPA Set to Reinstate More State Oversight of Project Water Quality Impacts

James Leggate

June 3, 2022

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a regulatory revision that would reverse a Trump-era limitation.

Environmental Cleanup

EPA Gives Utilities Until April 11 to Meet New Coal-Ash Storage Rules

Mary B. Powers

August 5, 2020

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Agency extends compliance six months before waste is banned from disposal in unlined storage ponds.

Environmental Regulation

Court Battle Underway Over Revamped Endangered Species Rules

Tom Ichniowski

October 7, 2019

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Court is expected to consolidate a Sept. 25 lawsuit from attorneys general of 17 states, New York City and the District of Columbia with earlier one filed by environmental groups.

Environment

Trump Administration Rolls Back 2015 Clean Water Rule

Action repeals Obama-era WOTUS regs that determined Clean Water Act permitting requirements

Pam Hunter McFarland

Pam Radtke Russell

September 12, 2019

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Industry, business and agricultural groups cheered the announcement, but Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen called the repeal of the 2015 rule “shameful and dangerous. No one is above the law, including the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Feds Probe Civil Rights Issues on I-70 Project

Review follows a civil rights complaint that the $1.2-billion Denver highway expansion harms minority community.

December 20, 2016

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Review follows a civil rights complaint that the $1.2-billion Denver highway expansion harms minority community.

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Items Tagged with 'Earthjustice'

ARTICLES

High Court Hears NEPA Challenge for Proposed $1.5B Crude Oil Railway

EPA Would Curb Coal Ash Disposal Exemptions at Legacy Sites

EPA Set to Reinstate More State Oversight of Project Water Quality Impacts

EPA Gives Utilities Until April 11 to Meet New Coal-Ash Storage Rules

Court Battle Underway Over Revamped Endangered Species Rules

Trump Administration Rolls Back 2015 Clean Water Rule

Feds Probe Civil Rights Issues on I-70 Project

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