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The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's (MassDEP) Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup (BWSC) posted detailed guidance on June 3, 2020, regarding compliance...

MassDEP has recently released for public comment draft Guidance on Vapor Intrusion.

The news about PFAS keeps piling up, and the trend is pretty clear – none of it is good for manufacturers and significant users. There were two important items this week.

Wastewater discharge general permits from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management for certain industries are set to expire September 30, 2012.

On March 20, 2013, the New Hampshire Supreme Court issued a decision in State v. Guay, holding that the defendant’s unlawful operation of a solid waste facility or septic system can result not just in civil fines, but also in criminal penalties.

This week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the defendants' arguments that periodic discharges of coal from their coal-loading facility were authorized.

In a pithy decision issued on January 26, 2022, in PNW Metal Recycling, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Oregon Court of Appeals determined...

By way of an update to our April 27, 2023 Blog post regarding plastic bag and straw bans, we thought it a good time to circle back to what is going in New Jersey (other state updates will follow).

On Monday, August 31, 2015, EPA released a pre-publication version of a proposed rule revising RCRA's hazardous waste generator regulations.

In a potentially significant opinion last week, in Little Hocking Water Association v. DuPont, Judge Algenon Marbley gave hope to citizen plaintiffs everywhere...

First, the report and Pruitt's memo about it repeat the claptrap about restoring "the Superfund program to its rightful place at the center of the agency's core mission."

I don't work in the oil and gas industry. This lede from Bloomberg Environment (subscription required) may not be news to anyone in the industry, but it absolutely blew me away:

February has been a busy month for updates surrounding California's novel "Truth In Recycling" law, SB 343! (If you're unfamiliar with SB 343, check out our initial blog post on the law...

California's Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54) is barreling forward and on track to incrementally reduce plastic packaging...

In the final "lame duck" moments of the 2010 Legislative Session, the Michigan Legislature approved a five-bill package of amendments to Part 201 of Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (NREPA).

EPA recently finalized technology-based pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act to reduce discharges of mercury and other metals from dental offices into municipal wastewater treatment plants, also known as publicly owned treatment works (POTWs).

Vermont has become the first state in the nation to implement a household hazardous waste extended producer responsibility law. This is an important development for two key reasons.