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Kennon Meyer joins the Mayor’s Water Source Advisory Council.
Blankenau Wilmoth Jarecke attorney Kennon Meyer is part of the City of Lincoln’s team for the project “Water 2.0: Securing Lincoln’s...
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- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
BWJ Conducts COVID-19 Seminar
A seminar on Families First Coronavirus Response Act and CARES Act was held on April 1 by Blankenau Wilmoth Jarecke LLP. Here is a link...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 14, 2019
- 2 min
The Trump Administration New Definition for WOTUS
In the latest chapter of a decades-long fight, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 15 ended its period for comment on a...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 14, 2019
- 2 min
The Mississippi v Tennessee Groundwater Dispute Goes to Hearing
Is the Sparta-Memphis Aquifer an interstate resource? That will be the question before Special Master Eugene Siler, Jr. when he hears...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 14, 2019
- 2 min
The Breach of Spencer Dam and Its Water Rights
At about five o’clock in the morning on March 14, a wall of water eleven-feet high breached Spencer Dam, crumbling the dam’s structure...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Jul 16, 2018
- 1 min
Solar Investment Tax Credit
In 2015, Congress passed a law providing a 30% investment tax credit for solar developers. Since then, there has been much confusion...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
2018 Farm Bill—Implications on Rural Broadband Internet
The 2018 Agriculture and Nutrition Act (commonly referred to as the “Farm Bill”), a $489 billion piece of legislation which aims to fund...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 23, 2018
- 1 min
Update: Retail Electric Rates in Deregulated States
The American Public Power Association authored a recent report regarding titled retail electric prices comparing rates in states with...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
Required Solar for All New Homes in California
The California Energy Commission approved the 2019 Building Energy Code on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, requiring renewable energy access for...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
DOE Pushes for Upgrades to Electric Vehicles
The Department of Energy has announced a new multi-million (nearly $70M) dollar research and development grant program aimed at achieving...
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Jennifer Heywood
- May 7, 2018
- 1 min
Drones Beyond Line of Sight
For the first time in the utility industry the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given authorization to a utility company to...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
Colorado to Pay Nebraska $4M in Republican River Settlement
The following article was produced by GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press and is copied in full herein. The State of Nebraska was represented...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Jan 7, 2018
- 1 min
Agencies Move to Rescind Obama’s WOTUS Rule
On June 27, 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed to rescind current Clean Water Act rules and...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 11, 2017
- 1 min
Trump Reverses Obama’s Course on Climate Change
On March 28, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13783, Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. The Order rolls back...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 10, 2017
- 1 min
Agencies Move to Rescind Obama’s WOTUS Rule
On June 27, 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed to rescind current Clean Water Act rules and...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 9, 2017
- 2 min
BWJ Water Lawyers Assist N-CORPE
On April 7, 2017, the Nebraska Supreme Court issued its decision in Estermann v. Bose et al., 296 Neb. 228, ___N.W.2d___(2017). The case...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 8, 2017
- 2 min
Changes to the EPA and the Clean Water Act
Following the inauguration of President Trump, a flurry of orders have made their way across the oval office desk. Thus far Trump’s...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
Thurston County Court Dismisses Drainage Suit for Lack of Proof
The Thurston County District Court has dismissed upstream landowners’ suit against a downstream landowner and Thurston County. Plaintiffs...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
BWJ Water Lawyers Assist Natural Resources Districts with Niobrara River
After months of negotiations, three Nebraska political subdivisions announce they had reached agreement on the transfer of the...
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Jennifer Heywood
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min
EPA and Corps Publish New Rules for Waters of the United States
While it has been years in the making, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today published the...
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