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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 ...
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On April 23, 2020, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. [83] The Court ruled that the County of Maui must have a permit under the Clean Water Act in order to release groundwater pollution into the ocean. Although the ruling was less broad than the 9th Circuit's ruling, environmentalist groups saw the ...
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 566 U.S. 120 (2012), also known as Sackett I (to distinguish it from the 2023 case), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that orders issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act. [1]
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
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The Secretary had 30% available for financing the cost of collection, maintenance and operation of the refuges, and the upkeep of all the refuges in the National Wildlife System while 70% was to be deposited into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund which was established under section 718d of the title. [4] Hazen Bay Wetlands
HILT has protected 57 properties on O'ahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island, totaling more than 21,650 acres (8,760 ha). Two thousand one hundred acres (850 ha) are protected in HILT-owned preserves that are open to the public, and over 19,000 acres (7,700 ha) are protected via conservation easements that permanently restrict privately-owned land.