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Two Strikes Against the Administration’s WOTUS Suspension Rule

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Seth Jaffe In August, a judge in South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction against the “Suspension Rule,”.... Read More

How Much Does Trump Even Care About Deregulation?

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Seth Jaffe Rick Glick’s September 11 post discusses Judge David Norton’s August 2018 decision to issue a nationwide injunction.... Read More

The Dutch Government Also Doesn’t Like Citizen Climate Litigation

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Seth Jaffe As a follow-up to my earlier post about the dismissal of public nuisance claims brought.... Read More

Still No Judicial Remedy For Climate Change — Don’t Expect Advocates To Stop Trying

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Seth Jaffe On June 25th, Judge William Alsup dismissed the public nuisance case brought by the City.... Read More

AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Leslie Carothers ACOEL blog readers sorry to see the U.S. retreat from international leadership on.... Read More

EPA Must Produce Any Agency Records Supporting Administrator Pruitt’s Statement that Human Activity Is Not the Largest Contributor to Climate Change

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Seth Jaffe Last Friday, EPA was ordered to produce documents, in response to a FOIA request,.... Read More

Statutory Deadlines Matter—EPA Gets Taken to the Woodshed

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Seth Jaffe Last week, EPA was ordered to take final action on a Clean Air Act §.... Read More

The Truth about Sue and Settle that Scott Pruitt Ignores

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Jonathan Z. Cannon Seth Jaffe’s post about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s sue and settle directive is right on..... Read More

Pruitt Banishes “Sue and Settle” – A Solution In Search of a Problem?

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Seth Jaffe EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt earlier this month issued a Directive prohibiting the practice of “sue.... Read More

AN UNDERGROUND RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Andrew Goddard Environmental groups have for years sought greater regulation of coal ash waste from.... Read More