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On July 17, 2017, California lawmakers passed AB 398, which extends California's cap-and-trade program beyond its current expiration date in 2020, until the end of 2030.

The California Air Resources Board will consider updates to its Scoping Plan at the Board's monthly meeting scheduled for May 22 and May 23, 2014.

On December 18, 2014, the Council on Environmental Quality released a new draft guidance on when and how federal agencies should consider the effects of GHG emissions and climate change in their reviews under the NEPA.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania recently denied an environmental group’s attempt to subject a driller’s gas compressor stations to stricter regulatory permitting.

In January, I noted that Ameren Missouri had surrendered in its defense of the NSR enforcement action brought by DOJ with respect to the Rush Island generating facility.

In 2008, EPA made a preliminary determination to use its residual designation authority (RDA) under the Clean Water Act to designate stormwater discharges from two or more acres of impervious surfaces in the Lower Charles River charles15Watershed and released a draft general permit to cover such discharges.

The US Chamber of Commerce, in combination with a number of other organized business interests, recently filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to invalidate two of the climate disclosure...

On May 31, 2012, and just formally published at 77 Fed. Reg. at 34221 (June 11, 2012), EPA designated the northwest Indiana counties Lake and Porter as marginal nonattainment for the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). On April 30, 2012, EPA promulgated the initial ozone air quality designations for the country but at that time was still working on the designations for counties in the Chicago-Naperville area. In addition to Lake and Porter, the Illinois counties of Cook, D

EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report criticizing EPA's oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast).

I've only now had the opportunity to catch up with EPA's proposed reconsideration of its approach to cost-benefit analysis for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, EPA partially approved and partially disapproved a revision to the Texas "regional haze" State Implementation Plan.

The Request for Applications for P2 investments include the Pollution Prevention Grant: Environmental Justice Through Safer and More Sustainable Products.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 28, 2025, that it has issued an emergency fuel waiver allowing the sale of gasoline blended with 15 percent...

Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposed Clean Power Plan, which requires a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by 2030.

EPA recently revised its Enforcement Response Policy for High Priority Violations of the Clean Air Act: Timely and Appropriate Enforcement Response to High Priority Violations (the "HPV Policy").

Following the reasoning of the Supreme Court in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co., Inc. (AEP), 546 U.S. ___ (No. 10-174, S. Ct. 2011), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington...

The Department of Energy, has concluded that there is no evidence that chemicals used during the hydraulic fracturing process have contaminated drinking water aquifers adjacent to the drilling site.