Dawson & Associates is pleased to announce that Col. (Ret) John Hurley, former District Engineer and Commander in the US Army Corps of Engineers, has joined our firm. John is the 19th Corps of Engineers Commander to join Dawson. John will be a part of Dawson & Associates’ practice areas on environmental permitting, ecosystems restoration, river restoration and federal contracting. A West Point graduate who spent 30 years in the US Army, primarily the Army Corps of Engineers,

On March 30, 2026, Judge Jon Tigar of the US District Court of Northern California issued a summary judgment invalidating four provisions of the current ESA Section 7 regulations and directing the government to use the pre-2019 versions of those regulations in their stead. What will be the impact on infrastructure and other projects concerned about Endangered Species Act approvals? I spent 25-years at the US Fish & Wildlife Service including 22 years with the Division of Law

This week, an editor at Bloomberg News called our colleague Larry Liebesman about the Endangered Species Act and how the Trump Administration’s proposed Waters of the US (WOTUS) rule and the Supreme Court’s 2023 Sackett ruling will impact development and infrastructure permitting. Larry has an extensive background on ESA legal issues, having spent 10+ years as a Justice Department environmental litigator and professor in environmental law at George Washington Law School. He

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