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February 10, 2017
The Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program recently released their study findings that evaluated “the current context for local water infrastructure investment in the United States, with a particular focus on large drinking water utilities”. Not surprisingly, many if not most U.S. cities are saddled with significant debt and not able to increase their funding of failing water pipe replacement and new […]
February 8, 2017
Doug Parker, President of Earth & Water Strategies, and former head of EPA’s criminal investigation division, has a piece in this week’s BNA Daily Environment Report that offers perspective on the future of federal civil and criminal environmental enforcement in a Trump Administration. A pdf version of the article can be found here BNA Parker Enforcement […]
January 30, 2017
President Trump rolls out his Executive Order on agency regulations. The E.O. can be found here. As expected, the E.O. calls for the identification of two regulations to be eliminated for every new regulation proposed. The Director of OMB will be developing guidance for agencies to follow this new directive. […]
January 21, 2017
On day one, President Trump carried through on his election promise to roll-back federal regulations, issuing a memo to all agencies to freeze all proposed regulations for review by his incoming cabinet. Here’s his Regulatory Freeze Memo signed by Reince Priebus, and here is a list of 30 regulations that are subject to the freeze.
January 18, 2017
With the backdrop of today’s confirmation hearing of Scott Pruitt, Trump’s nominee for the U.S. EPA, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rendered a decision today affirming EPA’s long-standing water transfer rule that exempts water transfer from the Clean Water Act permitting program. The case originates from a citizen suit action against the City of […]
January 17, 2017
Linking to a new report by The Nature Conservancy that reinforces the economic, environmental, and community benefits of source water protection, Beyond the Source. According to TNC This report was developed in partnership with the Natural Capital Project, Forest Trends, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Latin American Water Funds Partnership, and wouldn’t have been […]
January 10, 2017
EPA today announces that WIFIA is open for business. Below is an email from Andrew Sawyers of EPA with relevant links. Importantly, WIFIA provides up to $1B in credit assistance. Dear Colleagues, Today, I am very excited to share that EPA announced the availability of approximately $1.0 billion in credit assistance for water infrastructure projects […]
January 10, 2017
Sarah Kellogg of The Washington Lawyer pens a piece on the benefits – both to a client and lawyer’s quality of life – of virtual law firms, and Earth & Water Group is mentioned. [T]he adoption of virtual practices, albeit slow, has ensured that both firms and lawyers can address billing rate pressures, reduce costs […]
January 4, 2017
The U.S. EPA is soliciting new members to its Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB), which is a long-standing federal advisory committee that is charged with providing critical analysis and input to EPA’s administrator. EFAB’s efforts will be will be particularly critical to the incoming Administration as it seeks to change business as usual. Nominations […]
January 2, 2017
A jury awarded $22M to a community near Fresno, California for a chemical contaminant found in its public drinking water wells. The contaminant, known as TCP (1,2,3-trichloropropane), was an impurity found in a soil fumigant manufactured by Shell used to control soil nematodes. The contamination effected water wells in an agricultural area serving 108,000 people […]