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Environmental

Jun. 6, 2006

'Warren' Broadens State Authority, Federal Law

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first environmental decision since Chief Justice John Roberts assumed the helm.

Forum Column

By Roderick E. Walston
     

      On May 15, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first environmental decision since Chief Justice John Roberts assumed the helm. S.D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection, 04-1527. The court held that state water officials are authorized under a federal clean water law to regulate water flows through a dam, even though the flows ca...

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