The Environmental Defense Section defends, and supports and coordinates the defense of, all civil cases, matters and proceedings arising under the statutes enumerated in JM 5-6.130 (all of which statutes are concerned with the regulation and abatement of sources of pollution or with the protection of the natural environment), including cases authorized by those statutes for direct review in appellate court. The Environmental Defense Section also supports and pursues civil enforcement actions under Sections 10 and 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Sections 301 and 404 of the Clean Water Act. The Section also engages in certain other affirmative litigation closely related to its defensive practice.

[cited in JM 5-6.130]

[Updated April 2018]