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  1. February 21, 2023

    9th Circ. Reinstates Trump-Era Clean Water Act Rule

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday restored a Trump-era rule limiting the power of states and tribes to restrict new development under the Clean Water Act, ruling that a lower court had to have found the rule unlawful before throwing it out.

  2. July 12, 2022

    The Biggest Environmental Rulings Of 2022: Midyear Report

    The U.S. Supreme Court made its mark on environmental law this year by limiting the federal government's power to regulate power plant emissions, reviving a Trump-era Clean Water Act rule while an appeal plays out and leaving intact a ruling that allows the Biden administration to use cost estimates for greenhouse gas harms in new regulations. Here, Law360 recaps the top environmental rulings so far in 2022.

  3. April 07, 2022

    Trump Water Rule Wrongly Stricken, 9th Circ. Told

    Energy industry groups and GOP-led states told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a California federal judge overstepped his authority in striking down a Trump-era rule that restricted state and tribal authority to deny Clean Water Act permits, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the lower court ruling.

  4. January 12, 2022

    US, States Oppose Effort To Leave Trump Water Rule Intact

    The federal government and a group of blue states Tuesday asked the Ninth Circuit not to block a California federal judge's ruling that struck down a Trump-era water rule that restricted state and tribal authority to deny permits under the Clean Water Act.

  5. January 03, 2022

    Biggest Environmental Cases To Watch In 2022

    Courts across the country will wrestle with important environmental litigation in 2022, from a Clean Air Act case at the U.S. Supreme Court that has the potential to break new ground on how greenhouse gases may be regulated to a variety of Clean Water Act lawsuits.

  6. December 17, 2021

    States, Groups Ask 9th Circ. To Leave Trump Water Rule Intact

    Energy industry organizations and a group of Republican-led states have asked the Ninth Circuit to block a California federal judge's ruling that struck down a Trump-era water rule that restricted state and tribal authority to deny permits under the Clean Water Act.