Great Lakes Law

Federal district court rejects EPA rule exempting water transfers from Clean Water Act regulation

The following student post is by Collin Gannon (B.A., University of Pittsburgh; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, expected 2015). While in law school, Collin has worked at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center and the New Mexico Supreme Court. A federal district court in New York has vacated and remanded EPA’s controversial “Water Transfers Rule.” In Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited v. EPA (“Catskills II”) (S.D.N.Y., Mar. 28, 2014), Judge Kenneth Karas rejected the... Read more →

Addressing the Great Lakes Prescription Drug Problem

The following student post is by Karinne Marcolini (B.A., Michigan State University; J.D., Wayne State University Law School, expected 2015). While in law school, Karinne has worked at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Crisis Centre in Nassau, Bahamas. Prescription drug pollution in surface and groundwater is a growing economic and health concern. A recent study, Protecting the Great Lakes from Pharmaceutical Pollution, demonstrated that prescription drug pollution was... Read more →