Erika H. Spanton,
Principal

Tel: +1.206.315.4815

espanton@bdlaw.com

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Publications

August 11, 2023News Alert Major Questions Doctrine Reaches the Clean Water Act

Beveridge & DiamondEric Christensen, Erika Spanton, Jack Zietman

Updated June 27, 2023News Alert Supreme Court Narrows CWA Jurisdiction Over Waters of the U.S.

Beveridge & DiamondJamie Auslander, Eric Christensen, Richard Davis, Karen Hansen, Parker Moore, Drew Silton, Erika Spanton, Allyn Stern, Tim Sullivan, Jonas Reagan

June 27, 2023News Alert U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Expand the Reserved Water Right

Beveridge & DiamondErika Spanton, Barbara Marvin, Nicole Bayne, Katy O’Keefe

May 4, 2023News Alert Fishers' Livelihood Concerns Could Bring SCOTUS Sea Change for Environmental Law

Beveridge & DiamondJohn Cruden, Loren Dunn, Erika Spanton, Allyn Stern, Jack Zietman

February 16, 2023News Alert Washington Department of Ecology Signals that Nooksack Basin Water Rights Adjudication is Ready for Launch

Beveridge & DiamondEric Christensen, Erika Spanton, Rachel Roberts

December 14, 2022News Alert Washington Supreme Court Affirms Ecology’s Authority to Bypass Rulemaking When Requiring New PCB Sampling Methods Under CWA Permits

Erika Spanton, Allyn Stern, Dave Weber, and Gus Winkes

December 7, 2022News Alert Tribal Treaty Rights Take Center Stage in Two Landmark Federal Water Quality Actions

Beveridge & DiamondDave Weber, Eric Christensen, Allyn Stern, Erika Spanton, Rachel Roberts, John O'Meara

November 1, 2022News Alert EPA Region 1 Expands NPDES Stormwater Permitting Requirement to Sites Across Three Massachusetts Watersheds

Beveridge & DiamondRichard Davis, Erika Spanton, Julia Li

April 25, 2022News Alert EPA Seeks to Expand Clean Water Act Spill Response Planning to Hazardous Substances

Beveridge & DiamondRichard Davis, Karen Hansen, Allyn Stern, Erika Spanton, Nicole Bayne, Ethan Pauling

August 25, 2021Article Clarifying the Scope of Transportation Facility Stormwater Regulation in Washington

WSBA Environmental & Land Use Law Section BlogErika Spanton

July 22, 2021News Alert EPA’s Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater Challenged in the Ninth Circuit — Plastics a Key Issue

Beveridge & DiamondKaren Hansen, Allyn Stern, Erika Spanton, Sarah Munger

July 20, 2021News Alert Key Trends Impacting Fisheries and Aquaculture in the United States

Beveridge & DiamondDeepti Gage, Kirstin Gruver, Mackenzie Schoonmaker, Erika Spanton

June 22, 2021News Alert New Fishing Limits Proposed for Pacific Commercial Chinook Salmon

Beveridge & DiamondKirstin Gruver, Erika Spanton, Jamie Auslander

June 1, 2021News Alert EPA Releases 2022 Construction General Permit for Public Comment

Beveridge & DiamondRichard Davis, Drew Silton, Erika Spanton, Sarah Munger

May 4, 2021News Alert Oregon Adopts a Significantly Modified (and Legally Vulnerable) Industrial Stormwater General Permit

Beveridge & DiamondRichard Davis, Erika Spanton, Allyn Stern, Tim Sullivan

February 26, 2021News Alert Reducing the Flood of Changes—EPA Issues a More Tempered Final 2021 Multi-Sector General Permit than Originally Proposed

Beveridge & DiamondRichard Davis, Karen Hansen, Tim Sullivan, Richard Davis, Allyn Stern, Erika Spanton

February 22, 2021News Alert Ninth Circuit Affirms Partial Vacatur of NWP 48 for Commercial Shellfish Aquaculture

Beveridge & Diamond Jamie Auslander, Kirstin Gruver, Erika Spanton

November 10, 2020News Alert A More Conservative SCOTUS Slated to Hear Remand Question in Baltimore Climate Suit

Beveridge & DiamondMegan Brillault, Erika Spanton, Ben Apple

April 24, 2020News Alert EPA Finalizes Removal of Water Quality Standards Despite Pending Washington Lawsuit

Beveridge & DiamondAllyn Stern, Erika Spanton, Lucy Infeld

March 2, 2020News Alert EPA Releases 2020 Multi-Sector General Permit for Comment

Beveridge & DiamondRichard S. Davis, Karen M. Hansen, Andrew C. Silton, Allyn L. Stern, Timothy M. Sullivan, Sarah N. Munger, Erika H. Spanton

October 17, 2019News Alert NMFS Seeks to Streamline Aquaculture Permitting While a Washington Federal Court Interjects Caution

Beveridge & DiamondAllyn Stern, Erika Spanton, Kirstin Gruver

June 20, 2019News Alert Not So Cooperative Federalism? Washington Sues EPA Over Reversal in Long-Running Human Health Criteria Saga

Beveridge & DiamondErika Spanton, Casey Clausen

June 20, 2019News Alert Rewetting the Ink on Washington’s Industrial Stormwater General Permit: Significant Modifications Coming Down the Pipes

Beveridge & DiamondErika Spanton, Kirstin Gruver

June 18, 2018News Alert With This Tie, There Is a Winner: 4-4 SCOTUS Ruling Results in Victory for Native Americans and a Clear Mandate for Washington to Correct Culverts

Beveridge & DiamondErika Spanton