| 25-989 |
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, et al. v. Adam Nickels, Acting Regional Director, United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
|
agricultural-exemption clean-water-act irrigation-return-flows navigable-waters NPDES-permitting point-source-discharge |
1. Whether the Clean Water Act exempts from
its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
("NPDES") permitting program "discharges composed
e… |
| 25-908 |
The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
|
administrative-appeal citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-court jurisdictional-determination permit-waiver |
Is a Clean Water Act permittee's waiver of "any challenge" to the jurisdictional status of a wetland "in any Federal court" limited to government suit… |
| 25-700 |
Joan V. Bayley, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
clean-water-act cooperative-federalism environmental-violations federal-overreach justiciability state-authority |
Petitioners owned a lot with a slowly failing 1937 bulkhead onshore of the shoreline along Hood Canal, Washington state. Hundreds of properties along … |
| 25-668 |
Jeffrey Andrews v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
clean-water-act environmental-enforcement epa-authority sackett-decision surface-water-connection wetlands-regulation |
Petitioner Jeffrey Andrews resides on his family farm in Connecticut. His farm contains a short reach of an unnamed tributary to the Farm River, but n… |
| 25A582 |
The Glynn Environmental Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Sea Island Acquisition, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Application |
|
citizen-suit clean-water-act corps-of-engineers jurisdictional-determination permit-challenge waiver |
1. This case presents an important question regarding whether a waiver accompanying a preliminary jurisdictional determination by the U.S. Army Corps … |
| 25A337 |
Jeffrey Andrews v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1120 |
Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Rover Pipeline, LLC, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
|
certification-waiver clean-water-act federal-licensing natural-gas-act state-sovereignty water-quality-laws |
1. Section 401 of the Clean Water Act preserves
state sovereignty by giving States a "certification" role
in federal licensing for proposed project … |
| 24-350 |
Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Relisted (2) |
citizen-suit clean-water-act federal-jurisdiction npdes pollutant-discharge state-law |
Whether Section 505 of the CWA authorizes citizens to invoke the federal courts to enforce conditions of state-issued pollutant-discharge permits adop… |
| 24-349 |
San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law clean-water-act environmental-law mining-permit regulatory-interpretation water-pollution |
(1) Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by determining that 40 C.F.R § 122.29(b)'s new source analysis is satisfied by merely finding a "material connec… |
| 24A224 |
Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clean-water-act environmental-preemption federal-regulation maritime-law ninth-circuit port-operations |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1028 |
Shannon Poe v. Idaho Conservation League |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
addition-of-pollutant chevron-deference clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutant navigable-waters ninth-circuit-ruling pollutant-discharge statutory-interpretation |
Whether there is a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act when material already within a regulated waterbody is merely moved or resuspen… |
| 23-753 |
City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Relisted (2) |
clean-water-act discharge-limitations enforcement environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system npdes-permits permit-shield water-quality-standards |
Congress designed the Clean Water Act (CWA or the
Act) to ensure that anyone holding a discharge permit
issued under the Act has notice of how much th… |
| 22-7171 |
Aczel Cardena-Sosa, aka Jesus Garcia, aka Jorge Cardenas-Sosa, aka Gasel Sosa, aka Jorge Cardenas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act pfoa-contamination pfos-contamination standing |
(1) Whether Certiorari should be granted to determine whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 54 (U.S. June 27, 2022) govern Civil Litigation … |
| 22-743 |
Nevada Irrigation District, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
certification-request clean-water-act federal-power-act ferc ninth-circuit regulatory-review state-jurisdiction state-waiver water-discharge water-quality-certification |
Whether California "fail[ed] or refuse[d] to act" on petitioners' requests within one year as Section 401 requires by establishing the withdraw-andref… |
| 22-720 |
Dakota Finance LLC, dba Arabella Farm, et al. v. Naturaland Trust, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-penalty circuit-split citizen-suits clean-water-act diligent-prosecution-bar enforcement-regime statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper test for determining whether the "diligent prosecution bar" under 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(6)(A)(i) precludes citizen suits brought unde… |
| 22-616 |
Turlock Irrigation District, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure certification-request clean-water-act federal-environmental-law federal-jurisdiction one-year-rule pro-forma-letters section-401 waiver |
Whether a State can avoid "waiv[ing]" its oneyear "period of time" in which "to act" on a "request
for certification" under Section 401 of the Clean W… |
| 21-1040 |
Corona Clay Company v. Inland Empire Waterkeeper, a Project of Orange County Coastkeeper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
|
article-iii-standing citizen-suit civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-law federal-rules-of-civil-procedure informational-injury jurisdictional-waters standing |
1. Whether, in a private citizen suit brought under 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a) of the Clean Water Act (the "CWA"), a plaintiff can establish Article III stan… |
| 21-454 |
Michael Sackett, et ux. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (49)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights clean-water-act due-process epa-authority navigable-waters rapanos-test rapanos-v-united-states significant-nexus wetlands-jurisdiction |
Petitioners Michael and Chantell Sackett own a vacant lot in a mostly built-out residential subdivision near Priest Lake, Idaho. The lot has no surfac… |
| 21-178 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law citizen-lawsuit civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process environmental-enforcement environmental-law judicial-procedure npdes-permits standing storm-water-runoff |
The ocean near Laguna Beach, CA, is plagued by muddy storm-water runoff events, and some of the best beaches in the U.S. are suffering.
Sufficient en… |
| 20-717 |
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing |
1. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit?
2. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III procedural standi… |
| 20-434 |
Paul A. Heinrich v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process judicial-prejudice regulatory-enforcement rule-60b standing |
1. Whether, in light of Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp., 486 U.S. 847 (1988), the provisions of 28 USC §455, Disqualification of Justic… |
| 20-382 |
Territory of Guam v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3) |
cercla clean-water-act comprehensive-environmental-response-compensation- consent-decree contribution contribution-claim environmental-law environmental-liability judicial-settlement statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether a non-CERCLA settlement can trigger a contribution claim under CERCLA Section 113(f)(3)(B).
2. Whether a settlement that expressly disclai… |
| 19-1182 |
Smith Land Company, et al. v. Shawn A. Herhold, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
|
clean-water-act corps-of-engineers-permit due-process isolated-wetlands nonpoint-source notice-and-hearing standing supremacy-clause wetlands |
1. Whether a state, which lacked stand-alone jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344(g), at the time 0.014 of an acre was overfilled, c… |
| 19-7138 |
Michael Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony |
1. Whether in a prosecution for illegally dumping waste into a creek, where a major part of the Government's case was based on eyewitness testimony ab… |
| 19-839 |
Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. |
Oregon |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining |
The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).… |
| 19-592 |
County Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland v. Maryland Department of the Environment |
Maryland |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
clean-water-act municipal-separate-storm-sewer-system nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-runoff npdes npdes-permit permitting point-source-discharge stormwater stormwater-discharge third-party-discharges |
1. Can responsibility for nonpoint source runoff and third parties' stormwater discharges be imposed upon a local government under the Clean Water Act… |
| 19-257 |
California Trout, et al. v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
certification certification-request circuit-conflict clean-water-act environmental-protection forum-shopping project-licensing section-401 state-authority waiver water-quality |
Do states waive their authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act if they do not approve or deny a certification request within one year, even … |
| 18-1307 |
Tennessee Clean Water Network, et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Dismissed |
|
clean-water-act epa groundwater navigable-waters permit-requirement permitting point-source pollutant-discharge pollution resource-conservation-and-recovery-act |
Absent authorization by permit, the Clean Water Act prohibits the "discharge of a pollutant," defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable w… |
| 18-1106 |
Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al. v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-review administrative-review-process clean-water-act federal-preemption federalism finality-standard natural-gas-act preemption state-finality-standard state-law tenth-amendment |
Section 401 of the Clean Water Act requires an
applicant for an interstate natural gas pipeline project
to obtain "a certification from the State in w… |
| 18-907 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Three Arch Bay Community Services District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-discretion property-rights separation-of-powers standing vexatious-litigant |
Vexatious litigant ("VL") laws are being used by the courts to "punish" Kinney to the detriment of the environment. Punishment occurs even though Kinn… |
| 18-790 |
Tin Cup, LLC v. Army Corps of Engineers |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-action appropriations appropriations-act clean-water-act corps-of-engineers delineation fiscal-year statutory-interpretation wetlands wetlands-delineation |
The Clean Water Act authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits for the discharge of certain pollutants into "navigable waters," whic… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner Joseph David Robertson is an elderly Navy veteran who ran a fire fighting support truck business deep in the Montana woods. He dug some wat… |
| 18-593 |
StarLink Logistics, Inc. v. ACC, LLC, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
clean-water-act effluent-limits navigable-waters npdes-permit point-source point-source-pollution preemption supremacy-clause |
Whether a state law that authorizes a polluter to discharge covered pollutants from a point source into the navigable waters of the United States with… |
| 18-555 |
Marquette County Road Commission v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa agency-action clean-water-act clean-water-act-cwa environmental-protection epa-veto final-agency-action judicial-review permit-approval state-authority state-permitting wetlands |
Whether an arbitrary and capricious EPA veto of a state-approved CWA § 404 permit, a final agency action that denies the state-approved permit forever… |
| 18-518 |
Charles G. Kinney v. Clerk, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights clean-water-act color-of-law due-process federal-clean-water-act free-speech hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion professional-speech state-nuisance-law |
By simultaneously dismissing 8 of Kinney's pending appeals, did this 3 Judge panel abuse its discretion by violating Janus and NIFLA to cover-up acts … |
| 18-446 |
City of Taunton, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency |
First Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-deference causation causation-standard chevron-deference clean-water-act due-process effluent-limitations narrative-criteria npdes npdes-permit |
(1) Do the Clean Water Act and NPDES rules require a "causation" demonstration beyond a "mere possibility" to impose more restrictive effluent limitat… |
| 18-5942 |
Darren K. Byler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure clean-water-act de-minimis-standard environmental-law refuse-act sewage-discharge statutory-interpretation water-pollution |
1. Does 33 U.S.C. 407, The Refuse Act, apply to sewage?
2. Does 33 U.S.C., 407, The Refuse Act. require discharges, into the water, to be morE than d… |
| 18-268 |
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., et al. v. Upstate Forever, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (4) |
citizen-suit clean-water-act discharge-of-pollutants groundwater navigable-waters ongoing-violation point-source soil |
The Clean Water Act requires a permit for the "discharge of pollutants" into navigable waters, defined as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable … |
| 18-260 |
County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (3) |
clean-water-act fair-notice groundwater groundwater-contamination groundwater-regulation navigable-waters nonpoint-source nonpoint-source-pollution permit-requirements point-source point-source-pollution underground-injection |
1. Whether the CWA requires a permit when pollutants originate from a point source but are conveyed to navigable waters by a nonpoint source, such as … |
| 18-5577 |
In Re Adam D. Boylen |
|
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether petitioner, as a truck driver for an independent "person" Congress exclusively defined in the Clean Water Act to only mean any "source" an… |