May 24, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge has reluctantly approved a settlement to end a decades-old enforcement action over illegally filled wetlands, an agreement opposed by a local environmental group that claims it rewards polluters for ignoring the law.
November 09, 2020
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that resolution of a long-running Clean Water Act lawsuit shouldn't be delayed further, agreeing to implement a prior contempt order that allows the government onto private property to do remediation work that the owner has refused to do.
November 20, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge once again declined to step down from handling a long-running Clean Water Act lawsuit over concerns that an attorney for the government was once one of her law clerks and remained close.
October 25, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge has agreed to reconsider not stepping down from overseeing a decades-old Clean Water Act lawsuit over concerns that a government attorney working on the case had once served as one of her law clerks.
October 16, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing a decades-old Clean Water Act lawsuit declined on Wednesday to step down from the case after a property owner objected to the fact that the government's attorney once clerked for the judge.
October 11, 2019
The government urged a Pennsylvania federal court Friday not to disqualify the judge presiding over its decades-old Clean Water Act lawsuit, arguing that the judge can be impartial even though an assistant U.S. attorney working on the case once clerked for her.