Tiffanie Ellis

Oct 11, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Tiffanie Ellis

On August 2, 2024, the National Hydropower Association (“NHA”) and the Northwest Hydroelectric Association (“NWHA”) filed a joint challenge to recent changes to the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) interagency consultation regulations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (“NMFS”) (together, the “Services”).

May 13, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Tiffanie Ellis

The Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) is tasked with issuing National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) regulations to guide federal agencies in its implementation. In 2021, CEQ began a two-phase process to revise these regulations. “Phase 1” largely reversed several changes made to the regulations in 2020 under the prior Trump Administration, including key changes relating to defining “purpose and need” and the long-used concepts of direct, indirect, and cumulative effects.

Apr 12, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Stuart M. Gerson |April Knight |Tiffanie Ellis |Jena Valdetero

The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) has released a Report on the status of Connecticut’s Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”), which took effect on July 1, 2023. The Report covers complaints, inquiries, and early enforcement activities under the CTDPA.

Nov 8, 2023 | natlawreview.com | Tiffanie Ellis

Originally published the morning of January 18th – this amended version includes the final rule and effective date issued by the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers. On January 18, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the “Corps”) (collectively the “Agencies”) published a final rule re-defining the term “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”) under the Clean Water Act (“Final Rule”).

Aug 16, 2023 | natlawreview.com | Tiffanie Ellis

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”), in a stinging rebuke to the National Marine Fisheries Service (“Service”), has issued an important decision limiting how the Service may reasonably analyze impacts of a proposed federal action on a listed species under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). In Maine Lobstermen’s Ass’n v.