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The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), today released a report, "Alternatives for Managing the Nation’s Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites".

Today, the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted a broad negotiating mandate for a new legally binding international agreement on plastic pollution.

Most people don't think of the environmental impact of cannabis, but producing cannabis products can be energy intensive and involve issues relating to water, air quality, and waste management.

On June 25, the Fourth Circuit held that CERCLA arranger liability applies even when the arranger did not know the waste was hazardous...

On Dec. 2, EPA issued proposed rules elaborating on its definition of Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) in conjunction with revisions to its Commercial and Solid Waste Incinerator Unit (CWISW) regulations.

On May 27, 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) issued a highly anticipated revision to the federal definition of "waters of the United States."

On September 28, 2023, U.S. EPA released its final reporting rule that will require manufacturers (and importers) of PFAS and PFAS-containing articles...

EPA has officially announced a wee bit of regulatory relief by handing down a 90-day extension of the effective date on an information gathering rule concerning nanoscale chemicals the Agency had issued in the closing days of the Obama administration.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" has famously been attributed to Mark Twain, who himself attributed it to British Prime Minister...

On July 1, 2022 a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a superseding opinion in California River Watch v. City of Vacaville, Appeal No. 20-16605, withdrawing its previous opinion in the same case...

At the end of November, the European Commission published 155 FAQs that clarify various aspects of the Taxonomy Regulation.

Environmental groups have filed suit against California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, challenging final regulations under Senate Bill 54's extended producer responsibility program.

Colorado is leaning on Oregon’s recent Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) victory. The State has moved to dismiss National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors’ (NAW) private nondelegation and unconstitutional conditions claims, arguing that substantially similar theories already failed in Oregon.

On April 19, 2023, the influential CDP1 (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) announced that nearly 7,000 organizations worldwide can disclose their plastic-related...

Environmental regulators have issued discretionary environmental enforcement guidance in recognition that the COVID-19 pandemic will compromise or even prevent environmental compliance in certain circumstances.

Three major environmental organizations have filed suit against CalRecycle, alleging that final regulations implementing California's SB 54 Plastic Pollution Prevention Act improperly weaken the statute's plastic-reduction and recycling mandates through regulatory carve-outs.

On August 31, 2015, the EPA proposed new regulations for the management of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals at healthcare facilities. First and foremost, the proposed rule prohibits the flushing of any hazardous waste pharmaceutical into a sewer drain or toilet.