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On July 6, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the case of American Farm Bureau Federation v. EPA (No. 13-4079).

The Third Circuit opinion adds further support to a growing line of cases holding that TMDLs are "informational tools" that are not self-executing, but from which enforceable rights and obligations are derived.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration added another Obama-era regulation to its list of policy rollbacks. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps...

On Friday, Judge Claire Eagan dismissed Oklahoma's latest challenge to EPA's Clean Power Plan. Yes, that plan. The one that hasn't been promulgated yet.

EPA recently finalized technology-based pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act to reduce discharges of mercury and other metals from dental offices into municipal wastewater treatment plants, also known as publicly owned treatment works (POTWs).

The California Air Resources Board ("CARB") has again proposed revisions to the State's existing "Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth Regulation" of air emissions from ships docked in California.

On Sept. 21, 2012, the U.S. Senate passed a bill (Senate Bill 1956) which, if signed into law, will give the Secretary of Transportation the authority to make it illegal for aircraft operators in the U.S. to comply with the European Union's (EU's) onerous Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

On January 21, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) won an initial victory as the D.C. Circuit refused to grant opponents a stay of the Clean Power Plan (CPP or Rule).

On Tuesday, February 9, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of the Clean Power Plan based on applications filed by a broad coalition of states, the coal industry, the utility industry, and chambers of commerce.

Earlier this week, the Climate Leadership Council released an analysis demonstrating that the "Baker Shultz Carbon Dividends Plan" would result in greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than the US committed to attaining under the 2015 Paris agreement.

Environmental NGOs expressed dismay when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) – representing the Tennessee Valley Authority, a governmental entity – sided with industry in a brief to the Supreme Court on the Second Circuit’s decision in the Connecticut v. AEP case. In its brief, DOJ defended the primacy of the Executive Branch over the Judicial Branch on the issue of climate change, arguing that the regulatory regime under construction by the Environmental Protection Agency is adequate to "occup

California's innovative cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse gas emissions will have to wait another year.

The immediate effect of today's decision is that the ongoing challenge to EPA's mercury regulations will be remanded to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which previously upheld those regulations.

After receiving an analysis showing that shutting the Jim Bridger and Naughton coal-fired electric generating plants in Wyoming would save ratepayers money...

Last week, Judge John Copenhaver refused to allow a motion by the United States to enter a consent decree that would have resolved government claims against DuPont concerning alleged violations...

EPA is reportedly hard at work, reviewing over 2 million public comments filed following publication last June of the Clean Power Plan.

The New York State Department of Financial Services encouraged New York-regulated financial institutions to "prudently manage" climate change-related financial risks.