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On Nov. 16, 2021, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released a Draft PFAS Monitoring Plan. This plan signals that MPCA will continue its efforts to address historical PFAS contamination...

On November 16, 2021, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) released a Draft PFAS Monitoring Plan.

In last week’s auction held by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), not only did the allowances sell at $3 — the highest clearing price in four years, other than the June auction’s $3.21 — but a majority of the allowances sold to investors, rather than the large generators of electricity whose carbon dioxide emissions are regulated under RGGI.

In an order issued Monday, June 24, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the D.C. Circuit’s 2012 decision in EME Homer City Generation LP v. EPA, 696 F.3d 7, which vacated the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

Transocean and its insurers argued that the excess policy incorporated the drilling contract, thereby limiting the scope of coverage.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) celebrated its third anniversary by holding its 13th quarterly auction of carbon dioxide allowances on Wednesday.

Last week, President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping announced that their two countries would sign the global climate accord on April 22.

Although U.S. EPA recently issued guidance for regulators drafting Clean Air Act permits for greenhouse gas emitters, one issue that remains unclear is the status of biomass and biogenic emissions.

On June 23, 2014, the Supreme Court issued a split decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, striking down part of an EPA rule requiring pre-construction permits for large sources of GHGs emissions...

Businesses and industries that had been impacted by the EPA's HFCs rule may wish to monitor EPA's response to this opinion carefully.

On July 4, 2025, the Commission adopted a set of measures to simplify the application of the EU taxonomy, in the form of a Delegated Act amending the Taxonomy Disclosures, Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts.

The twilight hours of the Biden administration and the 118th Congress have been marked by intense legislative and regulatory activity, underscored by President-elect Trump's derailment...

In fact, the only reference to renewable energy appears in the recitals of the Decision, the first part of the text agreed upon on December 12, 2015 and to which the Agreement is annexed.

On September 2, 2016, California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) finalized its rule amending Article 6 of the regulations implementing Proposition 65 (i.e., California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Environment Act of 1986).

Earlier this fall, the EPA announced two competitions as part of the $5 billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program, which aims to provide grants to states...

On May 11, 2023, the EPA announced a proposed rule to revise greenhouse gas standards and guidelines for fossil fuel-fired power plants ("the Proposed Rule"). EPA is proposing guidelines...

On Aug. 3, 2015, President Obama announced the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final Clean Power Plan rule, which will sharply cut emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from existing power plants in the U.S.

On December 24, 2022, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's ("PADEP") Bureau of Clean Water reissued the PAG-03 NPDES General Permit for stormwater discharges...