New cases on water quality and climate

I have not done a terribly good job of keeping up to date here. I will now note that I am representing the plaintiffs in federal court in two cases filed this year that concern water quality and the environment.

I represent Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and other plaintiffs in a case challenging the U.S. EPA approval of the State of Montana's repealing its numeric nutrient water quality standards, apparently to please municipalities and industries that wish to be allowed to discharge pollutants into Montana waters that will cause harmful algal blooms, kill wildlife and recreation and drinking water quality. For more details see https://www.uppermissouriwaterkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Complaint.NNC-Repeal-Jan-26-2026.pdf

I am representing the Sierra Club in a case against the Tennessee Valley Authority to stop TVA from massive expansion of coal mining in Southern Illinois. In a decision that is absurd even by TVA standards, the agency decided last year that it had to allow a company to expand mining in Illinois despite a long rap sheet of environmental violations that includes dumping over 40,000 gallons of PFAS-bearing material into the Sugar Camp mine to put out a fire. TVA also, according to its EIS, plans to sell huge amounts of coal reserves in Illinois because it recognizes that it would be terrible for the climate for it to burn all that coal. So it will let the buyers of the coal damage the climate instead. https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/12/prairie-rivers-network-and-sierra-club-illinois-file-lawsuit-challenging