In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act (CWA) which granted the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) the power to issue permits regulating certain activities over navigable waters.
Join us for our November webinar on harmful algal blooms (HABs)! For this webinar, we will be joined by NOAA HAB Liaison, Betty Staugler, from Florida Sea Grant who will provide background on how HABs form, their impact, and mitigation and control efforts. Then NSGLC Ocean and Coastal Law Fellow, Siena Fouse, will talk about the federal and state permitting challenges faced by emerging HAB control technology, with a focus on deploying in a marine environment.
The Special Symposium issue of The Sea Grant Law & Policy Journal (Vol. 14:1) is now available.
On September 17, 2025, the Law Center will be hosting our annual Supreme Court webinar. This webinar will cover environmental law cases from the 2024–2025 U.S. Supreme Court term, as well as review the impacts of past cases and preview notable environmental cases in the upcoming term.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a new opinion in late May detailing why President Trump can legally shrink and outright remove national monuments under the Antiquities Act of 1906 (Antiquities Act). Specifically, Trump seeks to remove the Chuckwalla and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monuments created by President Biden to free up the land for oil and gas drilling.
South Carolina has become a hotspot for litigation surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The reason? The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina is home to the Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Product Liability Multidistrict Litigation.
The July 2025 issue of The SandBar is now available. The lead story is: "Supreme Court Shrinks EPA’s Clean Water Act Authority".