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On October 26, 2015, the U.S. EPA published new, more stringent ozone standards of 70 ppm, opening the 60-day window of opportunity to file lawsuits seeking review of the new rule.

EPA recently released a You Tube video entitled Clean Air Act and Upcoming Carbon Pollution Guidelines for Existing Power Plants.

On July 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in a novel air emissions case under the federal CERCLA.

On July 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in a novel air emissions case under the federal CERCLA.

The order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by environmentalists arguing that EPA is years overdue in completing reviews required by the Clean Air Act (CAA).

In 2017, EPA finalized a rule that updated its HRS, used to determine when to add contaminated sites to the NPL, to allow ranking of sites based on subsurface intrusion, including both vapor and water seepage...

A federal court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has ruled that seven consolidated suits over landfill pollution were properly removed to federal court.

On January 24, Winston & Strawn Partner Jonathan Brightbill will speak on a panel titled "Litigation Update: Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency." The panel will discuss...

What are the politics of climate change? A new poll done by Stanford University and Resources for the Future suggests that the public may be more ready to regulate carbon carbon taxthan has previously been thought.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is poised to begin enforcing tougher permit standards for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)...

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act—more commonly known as the Clean Water Act—establishes a stringent regulatory and permitting regime governing the discharge of pollutants into rivers, streams, wetlands, and other "navigable waters."

The natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) process has evolved since its inception in the late 1970s.

In the final rule, the EPA makes clear that the requirement to remove affirmative defense provisions from the 36 affected state SIPs does not alter the legal rights of industrial sources under the Clean Air Act...

In an unheralded move earlier this year, an interagency group of technical experts coordinated by the Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisors finalized a revised estimate of an important numerical value used in federal regulatory cost/benefit analyses to represent the cost to society of carbon-based greenhouse gas emissions.

In an unheralded move earlier this year, an interagency group of technical experts coordinated by the Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisors finalized a revised estimate of an important numerical value...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on September 27 affirmed a decision of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York

On October 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that there is no statute of limitations applicable to an EPA enforcement action for injunctive relief ...