In the US Supreme Court’s first post-Chevron decision involving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Supreme Court found against EPA, invalidating ‘end result’ NPDES permit requirements....more
3/10/2025
/ Chevron Deference ,
City and County of San Francisco v Environmental Protection Agency ,
Clean Water Act ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Environmental Litigation ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a suite of final rules aimed at reducing contamination, emissions, and discharges from coal- and gas-fired power plants on April 25.
This suite of rules includes two...more
4/26/2024
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Clean Air Act ,
Coal-Fired Plants ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Final Rules ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Landfills ,
Power Plants ,
Wastewater
On April 10, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final PFAS drinking water rule, setting new drinking water standards for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live and work. At its core, AI is the ability of machines to think and learn without encoded commands, mimicking our own cognition. Within two months of its...more
8/9/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Energy Efficiency ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Greenwashing ,
Machine Learning ,
Renewable Energy
What will happen in the environmental and energy space in 2023? The last year saw transformative changes in the environmental and energy space in the form of historic spending through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a...more
12/15/2022
/ CERCLA ,
Clean Water Act ,
Climate Change ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
NGOs ,
PFAS ,
Popular ,
Sackett ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Yesterday, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced far more stringent drinking water health advisories for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA may publish health...more
The tremendous popularity of social networks and advances in virtual reality (VR) and distributed ledger technology are helping to usher in a new technological frontier: an emerging computer-generated universe often called...more
4/26/2022
/ Blockchain ,
Cryptoassets ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Use Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Infrastructure ,
Metaverse ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Social Networks ,
Virtual Reality