Blogs & Resources
ACOEL members contribute regularly to the ACOEL Blog, writing on topics of current interest in their respective fields. Recently-published blogs are featured below, or you can search the ACOEL blog archive using the search feature.
Current Blogs
This isn’t an early April Fools joke — the US Forest Service is applying for a NPDES permit to keep fighting forest fires!
March 28, 2023Posted on March 28, 2023 by Jeff Porter Inside EPA is reporting that the United States Forest Service is going to work with EPA to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit coverage under the Federal Clean Water Act authorizing it to continue fighting forest fires from the air....
2023 WOTUS Rule Enjoined in Texas and Idaho (Or “Here We Go Again”)
March 27, 2023Posted on March 27, 2023 by Karen Aldridge Crawford On March 19, 2023, a federal district court in Texas granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the January 2023 Revised Definition of Waters of the United States (2023 WOTUS rule) promulgated by Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers...
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California v. U.S. EPA–Fighting for the Last Word on Mobile Source Greenhouse Gas Emissions
February 19, 2008Posted on February 19, 2008 by Lee A. DeHihns, III Following the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, deciding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant under the Clean...
Kansas Agency Denies Air Quality Construction Permit for Coal-Fired Generating Units Based Solely on Projected CO2 Emissions
February 19, 2008Posted on February 19, 2008 by Charles Efflandt On October 18, 2007, the head of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), Secretary Roderick Bremby, denied an air quality permit...
Climate and the Courts
February 4, 2008Posted on February 4, 2008 by Lee A. DeHihns, III The Supreme Court ruled last term that climate change can be regulated under federal law. But will the continuing lack of...
NRDC v. Winter — Green Trumps the Blue and Gold — National Security Takes a Back Seat to Natural Resources
January 22, 2008Posted on January 22, 2008 by ACOEL Admin I. INTRO On January 3, 2008, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California imposed substantial restrictions...
September 25-26, 2008 – First Annual Meeting in San Francisco
January 19, 2008Posted on January 19, 2008 by Rachael Bunday Tags: Conferences and Events Conferences and EventsPermalink | Comments (0)
California v. U.S. EPA–Fighting for the Last Word on Mobile Source Greenhouse Gas Emissions
January 8, 2008Posted on January 8, 2008 by Michèle Corash Following the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, deciding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant under the Clean Air Act,...
Conferences and Events
December 6, 2007Posted on December 6, 2007 by Rachael Bunday The ACOEL group will be meeting on January 31st during the Lex Mundi North American Regional Conference in Miami. The meeting will take...
Wind Power Project Permitting: Demonstrating a Need for Clean Power and Evaluating the Economic and Wildlife Impacts of Wind Farms
November 30, 2007Posted on November 30, 2007 by Jeff Thaler Structure/Cause Total Bird Fatalities Vehicles 60-80 million Buildings and windows 98-980 million Power lines 10,000 – 174 million Communications Towers 4-50 million Agricultural...
Minimum Streamflow in Arkansas
November 30, 2007Posted on November 30, 2007 by Brian Rosenthal With some exceptions and common law developed standards, Arkansas has traditionally followed the reasonable use theory of the riparian doctrine. A riparian user must...
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