US Forest Service Fire Retardant Spray Violated Clean Water Act
The US Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act when the agency’s aircraft sprayed fire-retardant chemicals without a permit, a Montana federal court ruled.
The US Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act when the agency’s aircraft sprayed fire-retardant chemicals without a permit, a Montana federal court ruled.
A group of first-lien lenders to
A US district court didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear a Utah property owner’s suit seeking an order compelling the Environmental Protection Agency to more quickly finish a contamination study of its soil, the Tenth Circuit said Friday.
Plaintiffs attorneys in litigation against
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Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson are justices on opposite sides of the Supreme Court’s ideological line who have teamed up in four opinions so far this term.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is requiring lawyers to show up in the office four days per week, the law firm confirmed. Skadden lawyers must work in person Monday through Thursday, under the new policy. The elite New York firm previously required attorneys to be in offices Tuesday through Thursday.
The EPA says more than 600 PFAS chemicals are in the marketplace in the U.S. While states are racing to regulate PFAS, while the federal government lags.
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