This spring, the Senate and House will unveil draft language for the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022. WRDA is Congress’...

Recently, the Programs Division of the Army’s Civil Works Directorate issued its Work Plans for both the Emergency Supplemental and the...

On January 5, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a “Navigable Waters Protection Rule Vacatur” (NWPR) press release stating in...

On December 26, 2021, the country and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lost a great man. Ed Gibson, former Commander of the Army Engineer...

Our colleague Rob Vining spent 32 years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and served as Chief of Civil Works Program Management...

Since 2015, the legal definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) has changed 3 times and there is still no end in sight....

On November 11, the Dawson & Associates family once again salutes our nation’s Veterans. This annual Veterans Day commemoration holds a...

Earlier this fall, the U. S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee announced that it would accept requests from Senators for water...

This week, the Biden Administration proposed changes to the Council on Environmental Quality’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),...

The National Waterways Conference (waterways.org) does excellent work promoting Federal policies that sustain this nation’s water...

On August 30, 2021, Federal Judge Rosemary Márquez of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona found “fundamental,...

Recently we received the sad news that our former colleague Sonny Callahan, who ably represented Alabama's First Congressional District...

The recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decision to withdraw the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC)...

As Congress and the Biden Administration continue negotiating a $1+ trillion infrastructure bill, focus will inevitably shift to how...

Summary: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule, which became effective last fall, has...

On March 31, the Biden Administration unveiled a $2+ trillion jobs and infrastructure plan including some $621 billion in upgrades for...

At a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ceremony on April 23, 2021, Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, 55th Chief of Engineers, inducted our Dawson &...

Anyone who has worked within the politically charged and complex Washington budgetary environment can attest that Office of Management...

Recently the Society of American Military Engineers, hosted a virtual DoD Agency briefing featuring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

The Dawson team is saddened this week at the news that our friend and colleague Col. (ret) Fletcher “Bud” Griffis has passed away. A...