Thu Aug 20th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
Residents along the Animas River in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, have deemed their river a “crime scene.” EPA and its contractors could be criminally responsible for violating the Clean Water Act as a result of the recent toxic spill in Colorado to the Animas River caused by EPA workers. CWA is the primary Federal statute governing the restoration and maintenance of the “chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the […]
Mon Aug 17th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
A group of fifteen state attorneys general filed a petition in federal court to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) recently unveiled Clean Power Plan, in the first of several expected legal challenges to the new regulation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. Attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming urged the D.C. Circuit appellate court […]
Fri Aug 14th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
On August 5th, a team from EPA was investigating an abandoned mine called the Gold King, located near Durango, Colorado. The Gold King mine had been abandoned in 1923, but EPA had been investigating a leak from the mine of contaminated water. EPA was implementing a project to cap a nearby mine, which required the installation of a drainage pipe at the Gold King Mine. To do so, a worker […]
Tue Aug 11th, On Environmental Law, by Bick Law LLP
On August 3, 2015, President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released the final version of an ambitious regulation for cutting greenhouse gas pollution. The “Clean Power Plan” sets forth EPA’s first ever emission reduction standards on carbon pollution from U.S. power plants, standards that every state will be required to meet based on their individual energy consumption. The Plan also includes an incentive program for states to […]
