Waters of the United States

Legal Publications

Susan L. Stephens, Here we go again: EPA releases Amendments to WOTUS Rule post-Sackett, American Bar Association (November 2023) 

Sackett v. EPA, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 390 (November 2023) 

Richard J. Lazarus, Judicial Destruction of the Clean Water Act: Sackett v. EPA, The University of Chicago Law Review, Online Essay

Paul J. Larkin, The Clean Water Act and the Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine, 20 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 639 (July 3, 2022) 

Ian M. Staeheli, When Uncle Sam Spills: A State Regulator’s Guide to Enforcement Actions Against the Federal Government Under the Clean Water Act, 97 Wash. L. Rev. 1183 (2022)

Thomas J. Philbrick, From Asahi to WOTUS: Why “Significant Nexus” Falls Short, LSU J. of Energy L. & Resources (2021)

Sean G. Herman, A Clean Water Act, If You Can Keep It, 13 Golden Gate U. Envtl. L.J. 63 (2021) 

Jesse J. Richardson, et al., Turtles All the Way Down: A Clearer Understanding of the Scope of Waters of the United States Based on the U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, 46 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 1 (2021) 

Hammons P. Hepner, The Shifting Definition: The Clean Water Act, “Waters of the United States,” and the Impact on Agriculture, 73 Okla. L. Rev. 337 (2021) 

Roni A. Elias, Waters of the United States, 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 57 (2016)

Erin Ryan, Federalism, Regulatory Architecture, and the Clean Water Rule: Seeking Consensus on the Waters of the United States, 46 Envtl. L. 277 (2016) 

April Collaku, The Clean Water Rule-A Clarification of the Definition of “Waters of the United States” or Agency Overreach, Fordham Environmental Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2015) 

James Murphy, Muddying the Waters of the Clean Water Act: Rapanos v. United States and the Future of America’s Water Resources, Vermont Law Review (2012) 

Jenny L. Routheaux, Western Wetlands in Jeopardy After Rapanos v. United States: Congressional Action Needed to Define “Navigable Waters” Under the Clean Water Act, Nev. L. J. 1045 (2008)