Trump Infrastructure Plan Outline Leaked

January 24, 2018 – Details of President Trump’s plan to revive America’s aging infrastructure system have been leaked to news site Axios. According to the leaked outline, the federal government is only putting up a fraction of the funds that will be used to build and fix projects including highways, bridges and airports. Half of the appropriations will go toward an “infrastructure…

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What Does Supreme Court WOTUS Ruling Mean?

On Jan. 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that challenges to the 2015 Waters of the United States Rule (WOTUS) belong in district court rather than the appellate court. The WOTUS Rule was developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to clarify which waters and wetlands fall under federal jurisdiction.

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