Great Lakes Law

Boundary Waters Treaty Centennial Symposium

Yesterday, January 11, marked the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Boundary Waters Treaty between the United States and Canada. To commemorate this historic and precedent setting development in international water law and explore the successes under the treaty and future challenges, the Wayne Law Review is hosting a Boundary Waters Treaty Centennial Symposium on February 5 in Detroit. The symposium brochure, with details on location, speakers, and schedule, is available online. The Boundary... Read more →

Federal court strikes down Bush EPA rule exempting pesticides sprayed on water from Clean Water Act regulation

Another attempt by the Bush administration’s political and ideological EPA to rollback Clean Water Act protections for our nation’s waters has once again been rejected by a federal court. In late 2007, the EPA issued a final rule (71 Fed. Reg. 68,483) exempting pesticides applied in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act from the Clean Water Act’s permitting requirements. In issuing this rule, the Bush EPA attempted to reverse thirty years of... Read more →