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).

In July 2024, the European Commission adopted the ESPR. This regulation created a framework to further advance the Commission's sustainability goals.

On May 24, 2022, China State Council issued an Action Plan on New Pollutants Governance ("Plan") to set out a regulatory roadmap to control new chemicals and outline an enhanced enforcement framework for compliance.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to further amend its Clean Air Act Risk Management Program (RMP) rules and has released a prepublication version of a Notice...

What Happened? On October 3, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule providing regulatory relief from certain requirements of the Agency's...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing revisions to the reporting rule for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

On November 5, President Donald Trump was elected President-elect for a second time. We anticipate that President Trump's upcoming term will usher significant shifts...

The Washington State Supreme Court agreed with the Department of Ecology in a dispute over whether Ecology should have followed notice and comment rulemaking procedures when adding two new controversial test methods for polychlorinated biphenyls.

Food companies face a rapidly shifting litigation landscape on three fronts: (1) state laws requiring on-package warnings for certain food ingredients...

Principal Eric L. Klein (Boston) recently spoke with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy...

The European Commission has proposed significant revisions to the EU Emissions Trading System that would expand carbon pricing requirements to certain international aviation routes while maintaining exemptions for flights to major markets like the U.S. and China. Beginning in 2029, the proposal would subject commercial departures from European Economic Area airports to destinations within 5,000 km of Frankfurt to EU ETS requirements, alongside all private business jet operations, while simultaneously streng

China and the European Union (EU) recently finalized very different rules for the classification and regulation of black mass, a material resulting from the initial step of processing...

On January 22, 2026, the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published new guidance that clarifies how UK consumer protection law applies to environmental (“green”)...

On April 29, 2025, US EPA and the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement detailing plans for the state's administration of programs related to carbon storage wells...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Superfund Solutions Initiative signals the agency’s push to accelerate the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)...

We expect newly-confirmed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to quickly follow through on President Trump's promises to draw down federal enforcement efforts.

On May 9, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14294, "Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations" (EO), which reinforces the administration's deregulatory agenda.

Two recently enacted laws in Louisiana and Texas will each require separate warning labels on the packaging of food sold in their state if the food contains any of 44 specific ingredients.