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The future of federal water policy
Policies affecting water and environmental permitting will change in the coming years. Despite Federal water policy currently being in a...
Nov 20, 2015
The Tenn-Tom Waterway Honors Don Waldon
Tenn-Tom Lock When Don Waldon retired in 2005 after 21 years as Administrator of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority,...
Nov 12, 2015
Congrats, Scott Cameron
On Election Night 2015, our colleague Scott Cameron became an elected official. Scott became one of the three elected members of the...
Nov 8, 2015
Jurisdictional quagmire could undo Sixth Circuit’s nationwide stay of “Waters of the United States”
On October 9, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a nationwide stay against the Obama Administration’s controversial Waters of the...
Oct 21, 2015


D.C. Circuit finds that Illinois to Oklahoma oil pipeline does not require full scale NEPA review
In a significant decision impacting federal review of energy pipeline projects, the D.C. Circuit on September 29 ruled that the U.S. Army...
Oct 20, 2015
Dawson’s Larry Liebesman talks WOTUS litigation and the Sixth Circuit nationwide stay on E
E&E Publishing’s OnPoint with Monica Trauzzi Last week, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a...
Oct 15, 2015
Helping the next generation of engineers
Col. (Ret) Bud Griffis with scholarship winners Judith Zhao and Robert Hume at the 2014 Society of American Military Engineers NYC Dinner...
Oct 5, 2015
Adm. (Ret) Sam DeBow selected for Marine Board
Adm. (Ret) Sam DeBow We’re delighted to announce that our colleague Sam De Bow, Jr., who joined us in 2011 after a career that included...
Sep 27, 2015
Time to rethink Federal land policies
48% of California is owned by the Federal government, including the 1,190 square mile Yosemite National Park. This summer, I testified...
Sep 15, 2015
Obama Administration’s “waters” rule enjoined by Federal judge
The Waters of the United States rule expands the control of the Federal Government over land and water resources traditionally regulated...
Aug 31, 2015
Katrina: 10 years later
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated large areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, causing over $108 billion in damage. Ten years ago,...
Aug 30, 2015
Environmental attorney, fmr. Justice Dept litigator joins Dawson
Larry Liebesman, a nationally recognized environmental lawyer specializing in federal Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts and the...
Aug 14, 2015
Doing well by doing good: The Mosaic Company reports on sustainability achievements
The Mosaic Company Last month, The Mosaic Company, the world’s largest provider of phosphorus and potassium based fertilizer, released...
Aug 4, 2015
Former Chief of Army’s Civil Works Program Integration Division joins Dawson
Gary Loew Dawson & Associates is honored to welcome Gary Loew, who spent six years as Chief of the U.S. Army’s Civil Works’ Programs...
Jul 8, 2015
Context for EPA’s new water rules
New rules designed to clarify the Federal Government’s role in regulating water pollution were announced on May 27 On May 27, President...
Jun 29, 2015
Former head of contracting, Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District joins Dawson
John Moore Dawson & Associates is honored to welcome John Moore, former head of contracting at the Army Corps of Engineers Savannah...
Jun 4, 2015
The implications of “St. Bernard Parish Government v. United States”
New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, showing Interstate 10 at West End Boulevard. U.S. Coast Guard photo, 2005....
May 19, 2015
Dawson welcomes Fred Anthamatten
Fred Anthamatten Fred Anthamatten, who spent more than 30 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District has joined...
May 14, 2015
California Dreamin’
California’s Central Valley Governor Jerry Brown’s recent announcement of mandatory water reductions in cities and towns across...
May 6, 2015


Down to the River
On April 20, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced terms for how water will be released in the coming months from California’s...
May 4, 2015
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