When the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Rapanos v. United States a few years ago, it highlighted that the average applicant for a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit spends 788 days and $271,596 to … Continue reading
Over at the Cato at Liberty blog, Ilya Shapiro reports on an effort to rein in the EPA’s abuse of property rights under the Clean Water Act. PLF has long been involved in the fight against the abuse of the … Continue reading
Environment — Endangered Species – Wolverine We filed our comments on the listing of the Wolverine as a “distinct population segment” of a subspecies. The problem here is that the Endangered Species Act does not countenance the listing of such … Continue reading
Thanks to Tom Steward for covering Peter and Frankie Smiths’ victory against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in this article on Reason.com. In the article, Steward also discusses an important case brought by the Institute for Justice’s Minnesota office on behalf … Continue reading
Professor William Andreen of the University of Alabama School of Law has posted a new article, Success and Backlash: The Remarkable (Continuing) Story of the Clean Water Act. His thesis is that the Act has done a remarkable job at … Continue reading
Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Ecological Rights Foundation v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. that telephone companies are not liable for chemicals used to treat utility poles that end up in the nation’s waters. Telephone poles … Continue reading
The following is PLF client Peter Smith’s retelling of the events leading up to and including his lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. My wife, Frankie, and I bought 20 acres in the high desert of New Mexico … Continue reading