January 20, 2016
President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have nullified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's contentious Clean Water Rule, which aims to clarify the federal government's jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.
January 11, 2016
Several states on Friday asked a North Dakota federal judge to deny the Sierra Club's request to intervene in a court battle over a controversial rule the states say improperly expands the federal government's authority under the Clean Water Act.
December 07, 2015
Several states asked a federal court Friday to nix the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to pause litigation over its new water rule while the Sixth Circuit mulls which courts may consider challenges to the regulation, arguing a stay was rightly refused.
November 10, 2015
A North Dakota magistrate judge refused on Tuesday to pause a lawsuit challenging a new federal rule clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act, saying the impact of a Sixth Circuit determination as to whether challenges to the rule belong in federal or district court could be considered later.
October 14, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a North Dakota federal judge to pause a lawsuit challenging its new rule clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act while the Sixth Circuit decides whether challenges belong in district or appeals court.
September 29, 2015
North Dakota and other states asked a federal judge Monday not to stay their lawsuit challenging a new rule clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act, saying the federal government wouldn't suffer any harm if the case proceeded.
September 04, 2015
A North Dakota federal judge refused Friday to impose a nationwide injunction on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent rule clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act, instead limiting it to the 13 states that sued the agency in his court.
September 01, 2015
A group of 13 states led by North Dakota on Tuesday told a federal judge that his injunction barring the implementation of a controversial new rule clarifying the scope of the Clean Water Act should apply nationwide, not just to them, while the federal government argued for a narrower imposition.
August 27, 2015
A North Dakota federal judge on Thursday blocked the implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' rule clarifying the jurisdictional scope of the Clean Water Act in 13 states just one day before the rule was to go into effect, calling the measure "exceptionally expansive."
August 26, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging a federal judge not to delay the implementation of a rule clarifying the agency's jurisdiction over U.S. waterways, arguing in a brief Tuesday that its dispute with various states belongs in front of the Sixth Circuit.