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Archive: July 2024 Blog Posts

  • The Overturn of Chevron: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
  • July 29th, 2024 — by Collin Dowson — Category: Environmental Law

  • At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a case that had been a titan of administrative law for four decades. In 1984, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council established a two-step test for ruling on the legality of government agencies’ interpretations of vague statutory language.


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  • Have Your Say: DOJ Seeks Comments on Draft Proposal
  • July 23rd, 2024 — by Mateos Lozano — Category: Environmental Justice

  • On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a request for public comments on its draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan (Plan). As required by Executive Order 14096, the DOJ’s Plan will specify the DOJ’s goals, metrics, and priority actions that it will undertake to address environmental justice (EJ). The DOJ must publicly release the finalized Plan by October 2024. To meet the objectives of Executive Order 14096, the DOJ has outlined four goals and currently requests public feedback.


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  • Don’t Cage Our Oceans: Challenging the Army Corps’ Nationwide Permit for Commercial Finfish Aquaculture
  • July 1st, 2024 — by Collin Dowson — Category: Aquaculture

  • In 2022, several environmental advocacy groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for its decision to issue Nationwide Permit (NWP) 56. NWP 56 is a general permit issued by the Corps under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for commercial finfish aquaculture.


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