North Dakota et al v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency et al

  1. June 18, 2021

    ND Joins High Court Fight To Curb EPA Emissions Authority

    North Dakota on Friday joined several other Republican-led states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a D.C. Circuit decision they claim wrongly expands the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

  2. July 31, 2018

    States Want To Kill Water Rule Despite Possible Repeal

    Several states asked a North Dakota federal court to kill an Obama-era rule that defined the reach of the Clean Water Act, saying that, despite possible repeal of the rule, they would not have regulatory certainty until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers measure is struck down.

  3. June 13, 2018

    Industry Groups Ask Judge To Sink Clean Water Act Rule

    A large group of industry advocacy organizations on Tuesday urged a North Dakota judge to strike down a controversial Obama-era rule defining the Clean Water Act's reach.

  4. May 01, 2018

    EPA, Corps Lose Bid To Delay Restart Of Water Rule Row

    A federal judge on Tuesday upheld a magistrate judge's ruling resuming a lawsuit in which a North Dakota-led coalition of states is challenging a controversial Obama-era rule defining the Clean Water Act's reach, rejecting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' arguments in favor of halting the case for another year.

  5. April 09, 2018

    EPA, Corps Fight Restart Of States' Clean Water Rule Row

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday objected to a recent ruling that resumed a lawsuit with which a North Dakota-led coalition of states is challenging a controversial Obama-era rule defining the Clean Water Act's reach, saying the case should instead be halted for another year.

  6. March 23, 2018

    States' Clean Water Rule Challenge Gets Back In Gear

    A judge on Friday resumed a lawsuit in which a North Dakota-led coalition of states are challenging a controversial Obama-era rule defining the Clean Water Act's reach, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has said that district courts, not circuit courts, have jurisdiction to assess the regulation.

  7. May 24, 2016

    ND Judge Rejects EPA Bid To Nix Water Rule Challenge

    A North Dakota federal judge on Tuesday rejected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's bid to nix a challenge to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers' Clean Water Rule and put the case on hold pending the outcome of a similar challenge making its way through the Sixth Circuit.

  8. April 12, 2016

    EPA Urges ND Court To Toss Water Rule Challenge

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday continued its push to quash a district court challenge to its expansion of the waters covered by Clean Water Act, saying a North Dakota-led coalition of states can argue its case only at the Sixth Circuit.

  9. March 25, 2016

    6th Circ. Ruling Can't Kill EPA Water Rule Suit, ND Says

    North Dakota led a dozen other states Thursday in urging a federal judge to disregard a "fractured and unpersuasive" Sixth Circuit decision and keep district court jurisdiction over their challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule expanding waters covered under the Clean Water Act.

  10. March 04, 2016

    States, EPA War In Appeals, District Courts Over Water Rule

    A group of states on Friday asked the full Sixth Circuit to overturn a panel ruling that challenges to the EPA's Clean Water Rule belong at the circuit court level, a day after the agency asked a North Dakota federal judge to toss a challenge there in light of the appellate court ruling.

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