The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule on October 5, 2021 establishing an allowance allocation and trading program for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Residual Designation Authority, or "RDA," is a rarely used "catch all" provision of CWA Section 402 that authorizes EPA and states with approved permitting programs to require...

Signaling renewed interest in a longstanding area of tension between federal and California labeling requirements for pesticide products, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

The EPA's withdrawal of its 2024 proposed rule raises critical questions about the scope of corrective action authority at hazardous waste facilities and the regulatory treatment of emerging contaminants like PFAS.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is seeking comment on a first-of-its-kind proposed rule that will require manufacturers of products containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

Sixty days is an extremely short timeframe to conduct a meaningful analysis of alleged violations in an NOI, much less address them, especially for a complex industrial facility facing scores of alleged violations in pleadings that can be difficult to unpack.

Major changes may soon come for food manufacturers and consumers alike. On March 10, 2025, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

What Happened: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a Health Advisory regarding outbreaks of New World Screwworm (NWS) outside the U.S. and the risk of spread into U.S. territory.

Nearly one month has passed since President Trump's inauguration, and the new administration is beginning to execute its approach to water and energy efficiency standards for appliances...

While the Trump administration has taken action to eliminate environmental justice (EJ) programs at the federal level, state programs with EJ laws and policies remain in place and apply to regulated entities.

On October 28, 2016, the Administrator of the United States EPA signed a rule finalizing significant modifications to the requirements governing the export and import of hazardous waste.

It has been a year of major change for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), marked by various court decisions, executive orders, and the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) total rescission of its half-century of implementing regulations.

Mexico is moving forward with efforts to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, even as the U.S. backs away from such efforts.

On May 15, 2026, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) formally released a proposed regulation that would, for the first time, expressly define pesticide-treated seeds under California law...

What Happened? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) recently overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2023 final rule...

This week, California enacted the most significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) since the mid-1970s. On June 30, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 131...

New U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiatives point to more coordinated animal-welfare investigations, including with respect to companies involving the care and testing of animals.

ISO and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol have announced a strategic partnership to harmonize their greenhouse gas accounting standards into unified, co-branded frameworks. This consolidation promises to streamline corporate emissions reporting, reduce duplicative work, and improve comparability across global disclosure requirements. Companies should monitor the development process closely as the changes could significantly impact inventory calculations, emissions targets, and climate-related claims substantiatio

On January 9, 2026, California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) withdrew its proposed regulations implementing the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging...

The federal government wants to facilitate the use of "highly automated" systems for transporting hazardous materials by air, water, and land (highways and rail).