By Dianne Saxe, Ontario Environmental Lawyer The better our detection ability becomes, the more things we find in the water. One important group of those things is pharmaceuticals and their metabolites. Pharmaceuticals are specifically designed to... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson, Partner, Jenner & Block The World Resources Institute recently released its Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (Atlas) to help companies identify water-related risks. The Atlas is a tool that provides geographical and sector-specific... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson, Partner, Jenner & Block In this Analysis, E. Lynn Grayson discusses the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and examines its first water-related information request. She writes: The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has issued its... Read More

Announcement is part of administration's priority to ensure natural gas development continues safely and responsibly WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a schedule to develop standards for wastewater discharges... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson, Partner, Jenner & Block According to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey, Trace Elements and Radon in Groundwater Across the United States, 1992-2003 , about 20% of untreated water samples from public, private and monitoring... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson, Partner, Jenner & Block The Wall Street Journal has reported that about 60% of the U.S. is now living through drought conditions and half of all counties have been declared disaster areas. Drastic situations call for drastic... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson , Partner, Jenner & Block The USGS has released a new report, Prioritization of Constituents for National and Regional Scale Ambient Monitoring of Water and Sediment in the United States , that addresses the methodology used... Read More

By E. Lynn Grayson, Partner, Jenner & Block In this Analysis, E. Lynn Grayson discusses the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and examines its first water-related information request. She writes: The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has issued... Read More

About 15% of the U.S. population (43 million) use drinking water from private wells. A recently published USGS survey of 2,167 private wells found in 48 States found 23% had at least one contaminant that exceeded either the MCL's (set by EPA under... Read More

As noted in today’s New York Times: “Almost four decades ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to force polluters to disclose the toxins they dump into waterways and to give regulators the power to fine or jail offenders. States have passed... Read More

Prior posts have noted the ongoing battle over the transfer of water within the various canals and lakes around and in the Florida Everglades; the key legal question has been whether or not a CWA permit is required for such transfers because it is a transfer... Read More

The Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 requires federal agencies to adjust statutory civil penalties for inflation every four years. EPA amended its final rule pursuant to the Act to increase statutory civil penalties for environmental infractions... Read More

Plaintiffs, a coalition of shipping companies, non-profit shipping associations, a port terminal and dock operator, and a port association, sued in District Court to declare unconstitutional a Michigan law, which took effect in 2007, that required all... Read More

In 1968, the California State Water Resources Control Board, the parent agency of the Regional Water Quality Control Boards, adopted Resolution 68-16, which has remained unchanged since then. The resolution adopted the "antidegradation policy"... Read More

In 2005, California enacted a law that prevented all privately-owned ocean going vessels of 300+ tons from discharging human waste or grey water into California waters. See http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_771_bill_20051006_chaptered... Read More