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This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement a public involvement plan, in the solid waste facility context. These guidances are very helpful in managing public relations.

Parties that are potentially responsible for residential environmental contamination in North Carolina face broad exposure and unpredictable outcomes.

In the summer of 2016, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law an amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) which included, among other things...

On Monday, the U.S. EPA issued a new rule relaxing the Obama era requirements for treating waste produced by coal-fired power plants.

The RE-Powering America's Land Initiative encourages the placement of renewable energy facilities on contaminated and remediated sites.

On September 22, 2025, we attended Circular Action Alliance's (CAA) Quarterly Update webinar. CAA is the Producer Responsibility Organization that has been selected...

When private parties litigate environmental remediation claims, must a plaintiff file suit within a certain time?

Under an Executive Order signed by President Obama in October 2009, federal agencies and departments are now required to release Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Sustainability and Energy Scorecards to "to target and track the best opportunities to lead by example in clean energy; and to meet a range of energy, water, pollution, and waste reduction targets."

In a December 2012 Guidance Memo, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Assistant Administrators for Enforcement and Solid Waste set forth enforcement principles intended to enhance protections for developers of renewable energy projects on contaminated or previously contaminated "brownfield" properties.

What happens when businesses don't properly dispose of hazardous waste? The risks go beyond regulatory fines—improper disposal can lead to environmental damage...

The City of Philadelphia has sued S.C. Johnson & Son and Bimbo Bakeries, alleging they misled consumers about the recyclability of plastic bags by using symbols like ​"chasing arrows" and How2Recycle labels.

Power plants will not have to meet new limits until 2020 for toxic wastewater that comes from using air pollution control systems and transporting bottom furnace ash.

If a county, city or town contributes a pollutant of concern to a waterbody it may need to modify its municipal stormwater management program to meet state and federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations. Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and the Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) will require MS4 communities to make improvements and retrofits to existing stormwater management programs.

This headline gave me pause, as I am not sure I have ever seen the words "gorgeous" and "sewage treatment plant" together: "World’s Most Gorgeous Sewage Treatment Plant Will be Put INSIDE an Office Building!"

This afternoon, April 16, 2013, USEPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response released for public input two draft vapor intrusion guidance documents.

Article from Waller Law

On April 21, 2011, the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly reported out of committee a number of bills implementing Gov. Malloy's tax proposals.