Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin on June 11, 2025, announced a proposed rule titled “Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units.” In...more
EPA recently redesignated the Northern Wasatch Front and the Uinta Basin ozone nonattainment areas based on data demonstrating that the areas failed to meet the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) by...more
In its latest move to address climate charge, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) on September 28, 2023 issued a memorandum titled “EPA’s Climate Enforcement and...more
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In the third attempt in less than 10 years, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule package (“Proposal”) that would apply strict greenhouse gas emissions standards to the fossil fuel-fired power sector. The...more
On January 6, 2023, EPA released a pre-publication version of its highly anticipated proposal to strengthen the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (“NAAQS”) for fine particulate matter or PM2.5, one of two classes of...more
EPA is poised to publish a final Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for emissions from oil and natural gas sources on Indian country lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian reservation in northeast Utah. EPA recently released...more