Wed Dec 21st, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
The American Farm Bureau Federation and other industry groups have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Sixth Circuit decision to assert exclusive jurisdiction to review the controversial Clean Water Rule concerning the new definition of “waters of the United States.” On Friday, October 8, 2016, the AFB filed a brief in the following case petitioning for writ of certiorari. In its brief, the AFB argue that the Clean […]
Thu Sep 17th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
Today, US Environmental Protection Agency made the widow of a rural Washington blueberry farmer pay $210,000 in penalties and agree to restore the function of 12 acres of forested wetlands that were allegedly harmed or disrupted in violation of the Clean Water Act when the widow’s deceased husband constructed a gravel road, a ditch, and cleared 10 acres of his property to plant blueberries. See United States v. Suellyn Rader […]
Fri Sep 4th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
The DCE (short for Delta Conveyance Facilities Design and Construction Enterprise), a private-contractor group embedded within the state Department of Water Resources, has determined it will be necessary to acquire 300 farms by eminent domain in order to construct two tunnels, each 40 feet wide and 35 miles long. They would take water from the Sacramento River north of Sacramento and move it under the Delta to state and federal […]
Thu Aug 27th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
Today, a North Dakota federal judge enjoined the implementation in 13 states of the Obama Administration’s new Clean Water Rule: “Definition of Waters of the United States” (also known as the Waters of the United States Rule, or WOTUS), which becomes effective tomorrow, August 28, 2015. The rule, proposed on June 29, 2015 in the Federal Register, redefines the Clean Water Act’s “navigable waters of the U.S.” to include “those […]
