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Supreme Court Rules Discharges To Groundwater Could Require Clean Water Permit

For the second time this week, the United States Supreme Court surprised environmental groups when it held in County of  Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund that the Clean Water Act permitting requirements applied not only to direct discharges of pollutants from point sources but also to discharges to groundwater that are the “functional equivalent” of […]

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Texas Supreme Court Rules Injection Well Permit Not Shield To Tort Actions

In FPL Farming Ltd v Environmental Processing Systems, L.C., 54 Tex. Sup. J. 1744 (2011), the petitioner FPL Farming (FPL) owned two tracts of land that it used for rice farming. In 1996, Environmental Processing Systems (EPS) applied for a permit to operate two Class III injection wells on land adjoining one of FPL’s tracts.

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