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On May 12, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia issued a decision concluding that the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to claims involving the discharge of pollutants...

In a surprising action, EPA announced today that it was extending the March 31 deadline for sources to submit their initial report of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2010 until some undetermined date later this year.

McGuireWoods partners Don Anderson, Benne Hutson and Jim Thornhill discuss the uncertainty surrounding the Environmental Protection Agency's finalized vapor intrusion guidance.

On April 22, 2026, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Help or Hindrance? The Impact of U.S. Environmental Laws on Critical Material Supply Chains, National Security...

Kramer Levin filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on behalf of Leon G. Billings and Thomas C. Jorling, two environmental policymakers and advocates...

Partner Mack McGuffey offered his perspective on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan at the Southern Legislative Conference last week, as reported in the Monday, July 20 issue of E&E News.

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission as part of the Department of Public Health and Environment has an upcoming meeting scheduled for February 19, 2015.

NPR featured Wolf Popper's case against GE Appliances maker Haier US Appliance Solutions for failing to disclose the harm of nitrogen dioxide exposure from its gas stoves.

As I noted earlier this fall, there is a definite trend towards refusing to vacate complex EPA rules.

On February 9, 2016 a divided United States Supreme Court issued an emergency stay of the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court and held that insurer Atlantic Specialty (as successor to One Beacon) had a duty to defend an employee's suit against his employer, a semiconductor manufacturer. In the underlying claim, the employee alleged exposure to chemicals at work caused birth defects in his son and sought $270M in damages.

California AG Rob Bonta sued global energy giant ExxonMobil Corporation for allegedly deceiving the public about the recyclability of plastic products and creating a global plastics pollution crisis...

Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported that MassDEP is considering promulgating new regulations to manage noise from on-shore wind turbines.

On June 20, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, reviewing whether federal common law would support a claim that greenhouse gas emissions could give rise to a public nuisance claim that would warrant injunctive relief against future emissions.

On October 15, 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda the majority of the world's developed and developing countries executed a binding agreement to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons.

According to environmental advocates who are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's regional haze rule, in 2015 a federal appeals court ruled that the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule...

The Energy Information Administration today released CO2 emissions numbers through 2016.