Feb 9, 2018Reading the tea leaves on EPA’s Pebble Mine actionLast week, EPA head Scott Pruitt announced that he will not scrap the agency’s 2014 determination that a large mining operation could...
Jan 29, 2018How SCOTUS’ WOTUS action created an EPA dilemma and what this means for permittingOn January 22, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that litigation to overturn the EPA’s 2015 attempt to expand the definition of “Waters...
Jan 24, 2018The Interior Department’s Reorganization and Its Likely ImpactAs reported this week in The Washington Post, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has launched an ambitious effort to reorganize his...
Jan 12, 2018Congressional committees ramp up WRDA effortsThis week, the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee held a kick-off hearing to receive testimony in anticipation of work on the...
Nov 20, 2017Our friend William Gianelli: A deserving tributeWe just received word that a longtime member of our team has received a wonderful tribute to his life’s work. On October 8th at the...
Nov 10, 2017Litigation hits the Corps of Engineers for Hurricane Harvey controlled releases. Was this a taking?Last September, during the deluge caused by Hurricane Harvey, the Army Corps of Engineers found itself between a proverbial “rock and a...
Oct 10, 2017Don Crabill, RIPThe Dawson family is sad to report that our longtime colleague Don Crabill passed away unexpectedly but peacefully on September 27th. He...