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On October 31, 2018, FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee submitted comments ("October 31 Comments") on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA") proposed rule,

The Attorneys General for Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin sent a comment letter to the Army Corps of Engineers contesting the inclusion of the Clean Water Rule

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling June 21 that certain releases of air pollutants "subject to" Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements, even if not in compliance...

A team of researchers from Yale University, the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just published a study on a durable, biodegradable plastic alternative made 100% of wood.

California’s SB 54, or the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, is a so called “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) law aimed at reducing plastic waste and shifting the cost...

In a potentially far-reaching move, a San Francisco Superior Court judge has ruled that the California Air Resources Board failed to conduct an adequate environmental impact review before it adopted the State's AB 32 Scoping Plan in December 2008.

A closely divided Supreme Court has determined that EPA must consider cost when regulating emissions of hazardous air pollutants from stationary sources.

Following up on President Obama's vow in his most recent State of the Union Address to more effectively manage federal coal and oil resources to "better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet," the United States Department of the Interior announced a moratorium on most new coal leases on federal lands while the Department undertakes a comprehensive review of its leasing procedures.

Last month, a federal district court judge excoriated EPA for its failure to take into account the economic impacts of its Clean Air rules as required under § 321 of the Clean Air Act...

The move is designed to allow EPA to evaluate the relative potential risk posed by the uncontrolled release of hazardous substances through the subsurface pathway.

On March 27, 2012, two public interest groups filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against the California Air Resources Board ("CARB"), challenging the offset credits allowed under California's "cap and trade" regulations.

On July 1, 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the Ninth Circuit to review EPA's issuance of the 2021 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Multi-Sector General Permit for stormwater discharges ...

In an October 16, 2017 order signed by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, EPA reversed a position it has held for many years — that the Agency has authority ...

On Wednesday, EPA announced a relatively unsurprising move with respect to its trio of rules designed to reduce power plant emissions of greenhouse gases—a delay.

On July 8, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a notice in the Federal Register finalizing three discrete rulemaking actions.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the 2010 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines on January 14.

On Monday, EPA released its second external review draft of an updated Policy Assessment on the national ambient air quality standard for ozone.