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Hawaii Wildlife Fund, No. 18-260, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case involving pollution discharges under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The case asked whether the Clean Water Act requires a permit when pollutants that originate from a non-point source can be traced to reach navigable waters through mechanisms such as ...
Sep. 26—A community group filed a lawsuit against Hawaii County on Monday saying treated wastewater from the county's Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant is polluting Honokohau Harbor in ...
On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...
In the United States, a citizen suit is a lawsuit by a private citizen to enforce a statute. [1] Citizen suits are particularly common in the field of environmental law. [2] Citizen suits come in three forms. First, a private citizen can bring a lawsuit against a citizen, corporation, or government body for
(Reuters) -The father of a woman who died during last month's wildfires in Hawaii has sued the state and the county of Maui in a “first-of-its-kind” lawsuit accusing the governments of gross ...
Mar. 14—Two Maui residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Maui County over the county's authorization of an estimated 400, 000 tons of debris in a dumpsite in Olowalu. Two Maui residents filed ...
Attorneys who filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric, accusing the utility company of causing the devastating Lahaina wildfire in Maui, are asking a judge to let them ...
Defenders of Wildlife, 551 U.S. 644 (2007), was a United States Supreme Court case about federal jurisdiction over anti-pollution statutes. [1] Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion of the Court, holding that the Endangered Species Act did not require the Environmental Protection Agency to apply additional criteria when evaluating a transfer ...