The incoming Biden Administration will likely be a catalyst for significant Federal environmental and energy policy changes. Staying...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency. I started at EPA in 1971 and spent the next...

Fifty years ago, on December 2, 1970, Richard Nixon signed Executive Order 3, sweeping together 40+ Executive Branch agencies and...

Recent rains across the Midwest and the South had severe impact in the Missouri River basin and now are putting stress on the Mississippi...

The Trump Administration’s efforts to overturn the Obama Administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule continue to face...

Last week, EPA head Scott Pruitt announced that he will not scrap the agency’s 2014 determination that a large mining operation could...

On February 22, a divided panel of Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA’s “Waters of the...

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit that Clean...

A satellite view of the Great Lakes The Federal Government’s recent announcement of Phase II of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is...