October 01, 2024
Republican-led states and industry groups fired back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's defense of its rule broadening states' and tribes' power to veto infrastructure projects over water quality concerns, telling a Louisiana federal judge it goes against what Congress intended with the Clean Water Act.
July 31, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a Louisiana federal court to toss a group of conservative-leaning states' and energy industry groups' lawsuit attempting to sink its rule broadening states' and tribes' power to veto infrastructure projects over water quality concerns.
May 31, 2024
Conservative-leaning states and energy industry groups have asked a Louisiana federal judge to strike down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule broadening states' and tribes' power to veto projects like pipelines, export terminals and dams over water quality concerns.
March 08, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge has rejected red states' and industry groups' effort to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new clean water rule that broadens states' and tribes' power to veto projects like pipelines, export terminals and dams over water quality concerns.
February 23, 2024
The National Wildlife Federation and American Whitewater are asking a Louisiana federal judge to let them join litigation over an updated Clean Water Act rule that expanded states' and tribes' ability to block projects such as pipelines and dams over water quality concerns, to ensure their interests are considered.
January 12, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked a Louisiana federal judge Friday not to block its rule broadening states' and tribes' power to veto projects like pipelines, export terminals and dams over water quality concerns — a power being challenged by a group of red states and industry groups.
December 06, 2023
Eleven states and three industry groups are challenging a Clean Water Act rule revision that allows states and tribes to block projects over potential impacts on water resources, saying it increases their environmental agencies' workloads and forces them to defend in court why they didn't consider every potential hazard.