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Dakota Access Pipeline Is Shut Down and a D.C. Court Declines To Stop It

Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge James A. Boasberg ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down and drain its…

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EPA Discontinuing COVID-19 Related Enforcement Discretion Policy

  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to end its temporary policy that allowed for enforcement discretion in…

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California’s Third District Court of Appeal Affirms State Water Board’s Authority To Regulate Unreasonable Use of Water During Severe Drought

On June 18, 2020, in Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. State of California et al., the Third District Court…

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  US Supreme Court Finds Forest Service Can Lease Land Under Appalachian Trail for Pipeline Development

In perhaps the most consequential environment and energy case heard by the Supreme Court this term, the justices overruled a…

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