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On November 29, 2016, EPA announced the first ten chemicals for which the Agency will perform a risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

According to recent reporting, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") is currently drafting grant termination letters purporting to cancel all 60 grants—totaling a combined $7 billion...

The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator has signed a final rule that establishes new requirements governing the use of electronic manifests as a means to track hazardous waste under RCRA.

On March 27, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") submitted for publication in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking that would set standards of performance for CO2 gas emissions for new fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units ("EGUs") with a base load rating of more than 73 MW (the "proposed rule").

The new year marks the final one of U.S. EPA's Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances ("PFAS") Strategic Roadmap, and so it is only fitting that the Agency begins 2024 by adding seven additional PFAS...

On December 10, 2014, EPA released a prepublication version of its long-awaited final rule revising regulations affecting hazardous materials recyclers under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA").

The decision declares that arranger liability requires an intentional act directed to the disposal of a hazardous substance.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a District Court decision allocating 100% of CERCLA response costs at a San Diego Superfund site to TDY Holdings, which operated an aeronautical manufacturing plant...

Recently proposed regulations implementing a controversial 2008 environmental reporting law threaten to dramatically alter the course of environmental due diligence in Maryland.

Earlier this month, United States District Court Judge Stephen Wilson held that NL Industries was not liable under CERCLA for air emissions of lead because such emissions...

E&E News reported yesterday that the U.S. Conference of Mayors has requested a "moratorium" on Clean Water Act enforcement of stormwater limitations on municipalities.

Producers are required to appoint a producer responsibility organization under Washington State's Recycling Reform Act by January 1, 2026. The Act is Washington's extended producer...

Owners and developers of property with significant wetlands or other natural resources take notice...

Earlier this year, in her aptly named post "What the Cluck?", Patricia Finn Braddock, noted that a state court in North Carolina had held that wastes from poultry farms, blown by ventilators from confinement houses and then washed into waters of the United States with stormwater flow, are subject to NPDES permit requirements.

"National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. DOE", "nuclear waste" Categories: Energy, Litigation, Nuclear Power

The U.S. Department of Justice and Pennsylvania Department of the Environment last week filed a civil lawsuit against five coal companies...

On January 12, 2024, the EPA announced a proposed new rule entitled Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems (the "Proposed Rule").