On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, which established a new test to determine the permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The case...more
4/24/2020
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Clean Water Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Direct Discharge ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Functional Equivalent ,
Groundwater ,
Hawaii Wildlife Fund v County of Maui ,
Navigable Waters ,
Permits ,
Point Sources ,
Remand ,
SCOTUS ,
Vacated ,
Waters of the United States
In 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the controversial “Clean Power Plan,” which was immediately the subject of a legal challenge and was subsequently stayed by the United States Supreme Court....more
12/11/2018
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Clean Power Plan ,
Coal-Fired Plants ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) ,
Power Plants ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Reform ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays ,
Trump Administration
In a new effort to clarify the breadth of exemptions for farm animal waste emission reporting, EPA has proposed a rule that exempts such emissions from the reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community...more
11/16/2018
/ Agricultural Sector ,
CERCLA ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
EPCRA ,
Exemptions ,
Farm Animals ,
Farms ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Unduly Burdensome ,
Waste
Two years ago, the EPA adopted the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Subpart OOOOa (commonly known as the Methane Rule), which allowed the EPA – for the first time – to regulate directly the emissions of methane gas...more
9/14/2018
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Methane ,
Moratorium ,
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Oil & Gas ,
Oil Wells ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Public Comment ,
Reversal ,
Stays ,
Vacated