by Dragun Corporation Staff | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog
The Maui Decision seems destined to be just a footnote in environmental regulatory history. It was just over a year ago that we started to roll the language of the Maui Decision into our lexicon. Most notably, the term “functional equivalent” (See “Clean Water Act:...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog
Decades come and decades go, but there remain some constants: the never-ending debate over the definition of jurisdictional waters or Waters of the United States (WOTUS) and how to address excess nutrients affecting surface waters. There is much more to discuss with...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog
Similar to other proposed budgets in the Biden Administration, the proposed budget for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ambitious. The proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022 for the EPA is $11.233 billion. For perspective, for FY 2021 the budget was...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog
Prominent in environmental blogs, articles, and webinars this year are both Environmental Justice and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Both are in the news again below. RCRA Settlement Details were sparse (including the date of the violation) but the U.S....
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog
In the six months or so that President Biden has been in the White House there has been a consistent message that they are serious about fully integrating Environmental Justice (EJ) into environmental permitting. We discussed this in two previous blogs on March 30th...