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Bracewell
Environmental justice essentially means that all people — regardless of race, color, national origin or income — have the right to the same environmental protections...
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
On April 30, a Joint Staff Committee comprised of the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Democratic staff of the Senate Budget Committee released a report that will likely turn up the private litigation and State AG heat on "Big Oil" companies in the United States.
Nossaman LLP
On May 1, 2024, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its final Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule ...
Duane Morris LLP
On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register its final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic...
Nossaman LLP
On April 24 and 25, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit unanimously upheld two federal district court decisions rejecting challenges to the federal approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm in the cases of ...
GableGotwals
On April 29, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) announced a $24.5 million settlement with Ameredev II, LLC for violations of state air regulations. This is the largest NMED settlement ever for a civil oil and gas violation.
Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy
On April 17, 2024, the EPA signed a final rule to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)...
McGlinchey Stafford
On April 17, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)...
Mintz
Sam Hess of Inside EPA has a fulsome report on EPA's everything but the kitchen sink attempt to avoid a nationwide freeze of its most recent definition of Waters of the United States...
Mintz
On April 22, 2024, the federal government issued a rule "amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)" to "implement a requirement for agencies to procure sustainable products and services to the maximum extent practicable."
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
After nearly two decades of litigation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized a suite of four regulations targeting the power sector.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
In this week's edition, we take a detailed look at the Financial Conduct Authority's guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, which requires in-scope firms...
Crowell & Moring LLP
In connection with EPA's final rule listing two PFAS as hazardous substances under CERCLA, EPA also released policy guidance addressing its enforcement discretion under the new rule.
Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC
A resolution currently being debated in the New Jersey Legislature would allow voters to determine whether environmental rights should be enshrined in the State Constitution. specifically asks voters to...
Venable LLP
Based on immediate reactions to the long-awaited final "Phase II" NEPA regulations, one might think that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) substantially altered long-standing...
EPA Overhauls Rules For Evaluating Existing Chemical Risks: Three Key Takeaways For Downstream Users
Wiley Rein
Only six months after proposing to amend the procedures for risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the final rule was published in the Federal Register on May 3, 2024.
Nossaman LLP
Welcome to Nossaman's California Water Views – 2024 Outlook.
K&L Gates
On 17 April 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new Strategic Civil-Criminal Enforcement Policy designed to improve collaboration between its civil and criminal enforcement...
Perkins Coie LLP
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized its Phase Two revisions to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations on April 30, 2024...
Mintz
As recently reported by Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, "the number of climate-related cases filed globally each year has increased from a handful in the early 2000s...
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