Archive for 2020
Posted In: Water
Supreme Court Creates New “Functional Equivalent” Test for Groundwater Discharges
Wading into a dispute about the Clean Water Act’s applicability to groundwater discharges, the Supreme Court handed environmentalists a somewhat surprising victory in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. However,…
Posted In: COVID-19
How COVID-19 is Affecting Environmental Permitting
As government agencies at every level continue to implement programs to combat the spread of the Coronavirus, many environmental practitioners are struggling to make sense of what this means for…
Posted In: Uncategorized
Massachusetts and Federal Updates on PFAS Regulation
On February 20, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would begin a regulatory determination process aimed at deciding “whether or not to begin the process to propose…