ArticleAlabama's First Environmental Justice SummitThe We Matter Community Association is hosting Alabama's first environmental justice summit in Mobile this coming Monday.United StatesEnvironmentJones Walker LLP
ArticleAmong Cap And Trade, RES, And CES, Which Would Work Best? The One That's Not Currently Under ConsiderationAfter the death of Waxman-Markey, and given the current political climate, cap and trade is the Legislation Which Shall Not Be Named. Instead, there is discussion of either a renewable electricity standard (RES) or clean electricity standard (CES), and the talking points for supporters concern energy security and the growth of a clean energy economy, not climate change (also known as the Reality Which Shall Not Be Named).United StatesEnvironment
ArticleAPHIS Seeks Comment On Draft Environmental Documents For Deregulation Of American Chestnut Developed Using Genetic EngineeringOn June 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact statement...United StatesEnvironmentBergeson & Campbell
ArticleArizona Water Permitting Process UpdatedGovernor Ducey recently signed two bills passed by the Arizona legislature dealing with water quality programs.United StatesEnvironmentLewis Roca
ArticleCalifornia's Climate Disclosure Mandates Face Legal ChallengesIn a landmark legal challenge, a coalition led by prominent business federations is challenging California's pioneering climate disclosure laws...United StatesEnvironmentGreenberg Glusker LLP
ArticleCalifornia's High Court Upholds GHG Allowance Auction ProgramCalifornia's Supreme Court recently upheld the State's greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade auction program. In a June 28, 2017 order, the Court denied petitions to review a lower court's ruling...United StatesEnvironmentTroutman Pepper Locke LLP
ArticleCalifornia's Latest Landmark Legislation Aims To Revamp Wildfire PoliciesIn the wake of devastating 2025 wildfires, Senate Bill 254 stands poised to reshape California's wildfire prevention, mitigation and funding strategies.United StatesEnvironmentNossaman LLP
ArticleCalifornia Climate Disclosure Laws: Did You Make CARB's List?Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) published a list of companies it considers subject to SB-253 and/or SB-261, California's climate disclosure and reporting laws, based on its preliminary review. United StatesEnvironmentArnold & Porter
ArticleCalifornia WAIRE Annual Report Deadline Extended Due To WildfiresAs of 2024 California's South Coast Air Quality Management District ("SCAQMD") officially required an initial site report and annual report for all warehouses greater than 100,000 square feet under its Warehouse.United StatesEnvironmentBenesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
ArticleChallenges To EPA's Water Facility Cybersecurity Mandates SuccessfulDespite efforts to stem increasing cyber threats to water systems around the nation, on October 13, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew cybersecurity mandates...United StatesEnvironmentNossaman LLP
ArticleClean Power Plan Compliance Deadlines Uncertain Although the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "Agency") was not successful in preventing the stay, the Agency has failed to expressly acknowledge that compliance deadlines must therefore be postponed. United StatesEnvironmentJones Day
ArticleComment Period Ending On EPA's Affordable Clean Energy ProposalA 60-day public comment period on the ACE proposal ends on October 30, 2018United StatesEnvironmentJones Day
ArticleConnecticut Bill Extending DEEP Reporting Deadline DiesThe 2015 regular session of the Connecticut General Assembly ended at midnight June 3 without passage of Senate Bill 941.United StatesEnvironmentDay Pitney LLP
ArticleCouncil On Environmental Quality Proposes Changes To Its RegulationsOn October 7, 2021, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed certain changes to its regulations implementing the National Environmental Quality Act (NEPA)...United StatesEnvironmentLewis Roca
ArticleCWA eReporting Phases 1 And 2 Deadlines ApproachThe Phase 1 deadline under EPA's NPDES eReporting Rule is just around the corner, on December 21, 2016.United StatesEnvironmentTroutman Pepper Locke LLP
ArticleData Center Permitting On The Fast Track In PAWith President Trump's July 23, 2025, executive order, "Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure," and Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro's prior executive order, "PA Permit Fast Track Program,"...United StatesEnvironmentJones Day
ArticleDeadline For Textile Producers To Join Landbell USA Is Fast ApproachingTextile producers have thirty days left before the July 1st deadline to join Landbell USA, the Producer Responsibility Organization (“PRO”) charged with implementing California’s Responsible...United StatesEnvironmentGreenberg Glusker LLP
ArticleDemocratic Attorneys General Urge EPA To Repeal Trump-Era Rule Curtailing State Permitting Authority Under Clean Water ActA group of 19 Democratic AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta, New York AG Letitia James, and Washington AG Bob Ferguson, sent a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA")...United StatesEnvironmentCozen O'Connor
ArticleDo We Need the Precautionary Principle To Protect Us From Potential Risks From Nanotechnology? The NRDC Thinks SoIn a prior rant, I raised the concern that EPA would oppose the use of new cleanup technologies based on nanotechnologies on the basis of the precautionary principle.United StatesEnvironmentFoley Hoag LLP
ArticleDual Delay: Minnesota Extends PFAS Products Reporting DeadlineAfter the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delayed the submission period for its one-time per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)...United StatesEnvironmentAkin