Environmental & Energy
Jun. 10, 2015
New water rule isn't the end of the story
The EPA recently announced its definition of "waters of the United States," and litigation seems likely to follow. By Joshua A. Bloom and Tom Boer
Joshua A. Bloom
Principal
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson PLC
environmental law
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Oakland , CA 94607
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Email: jbloom@meyersnave.com
University of San Francisco School of Law
Joshua is in the firm's Land Use and Environmental Law Practice Groups. With more than 25 years of experience, he specializes in all areas of state and federal environmental and natural resources law, including complex environmental litigation, brownfields, environmental aspects of transactional matters, and compliance counseling, representing both public and private clients.
It appears that Godot has finally made an appearance. The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released their final rule, years in the making,
defining "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act. That regulation,
which was finalized on May 27 but has yet to be published in the Federal Register,
garnered over 1 millio...
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