The Supreme Court of South Carolina (“SCT”) addressed in a January 28th Opinion an issue arising out of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. See Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League v. South ...

Last week, the Trump administration delivered a serious blow to US climate policy by repealing the longstanding scientific finding that greenhouse gas pollution poses a danger to humans. Getting to ...

Under EPA’s proposed rule, the NPDES state certification process would focus on discharges and their direct impact on water quality.

Climate change plaintiffs now claim that greenhouse gases are causing property damage through fire, flood, and frost, ...

Numerous state and local governments argue oil and gas companies deliberately hid the environmental impacts of fossil fuels.

Environmental advocates say the outlined revision ignores science and threatens water quality, while farm groups argue it offers landowners needed clarity about which parts of their land count as ...

As was expected, the first legal challenge to the Trump administration's repeal of a key climate law, the "endangerment finding," was filed. The repeal provides a path for the Supreme Court to ...

The Supreme Court agreed to take up an effort by energy companies to end a lawsuit filed in state court that seeks billions of dollars in damages.

What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications ...

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a proposed 30-inch-diameter pipeline, 1,150 miles long, transporting crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois through South Dakota and Iowa. The Standing Rock ...

US stocks rose on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump's most sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs are ...

The Trump administration is not at all concerned about blowback, though, and in fact was making victory laps much of last ...