2016 Cases to Watch
In its end-of-year wrap up,Law360 selected two Troutman Sanders environmental cases as the seven most important environmental cases to watch in 2016.
In the first case, Brooks Smith, Doug Henderson, and Justin Wong are representing Murray Energy in the Sixth Circuit in a challenge to the U.S. EPA’s new regulations redefining “waters of the United States,” the key definitional trigger under the Clean Water Act.
In the second case, several Troutman Sanders attorneys, including Peter Glaser, Mack McGuffey, Justin Wong, and Margaret Campbell, are representing petitioners in a challenge to overturn the U.S. EPA’s “Clean Power Plan,” the agency’s new regulations aimed at emissions from coal-fired utilities.