This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from June16, 2017 – July 15, 2017.
Latin America continues its breathtaking pace in releasing new environmental and sustainability initiatives and embracing international...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from May 16, 2017 – June 15, 2017.
Latin America is moving full speed ahead to adopt and implement Climate Change Convention commitments, signaling that greenhouse gas ...more
Notable regional developments abound: Argentina has adopted new hazardous wastes storage rules; Brazil's dangerous good transportation regulations will go into effect shortly; the Chilean Senate unanimously passed a consumer...more
Latin America continues it vigorous and progressive introduction of wide ranging environmental and sustainability issues. Some highlighted activity to reflect the range:
Sustainability. Signaling what may be a future...more
This month, Latin American countries sustain their pace issuing progressive environmental measures, and the Region continues to emerge as a global leader on sustainability issues.
Product recycling requirements matured...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from January 16, 2017 – February 15, 2017.
The pace of environmental and sustainability initiatives continues at its breakneck pace in Latin America, notwithstanding summer...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from December 16, 2016 – January 15, 2017.
Greetings! While there was some slowdown in regulatory activity towards the end of the year, as usual, there were also some fairly...more
2/2/2017
/ Argentina ,
Brazil ,
Chile ,
Climate Change ,
Colombia ,
Energy Efficiency ,
Mexico ,
Paris Agreement ,
Peru ,
Plastic Bag Bans ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solid Waste
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from November 16-December 15, 2016.
Happy New Year! As 2016 ended, Latin America continued its focus on sustainability issues and renewable energy policies, spurred in large...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from October 16 - November 15, 2016. During this last reporting period, key developments include: -
Argentina’s congress proposes a spate of new initiatives to govern wastes...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from September 16 – October 15, 2016.
Initiatives to reduce and manage packaging wastes appear to be gaining traction, particularly in Argentina, which enacted a new...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from August 16 – September 15, 2016.
Climate change legislation predominates in this report, with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico all ratifying the Paris Agreement, Colombia...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from June 16 - July 15, 2016.
Brazil’s proposal to establish the region’s first comprehensive chemical regulatory program is the top story of this issue. Elsewhere, Chile...more
Brazil's Ministry of the Environment has proposed a bill that would establish an expansive chemical regulatory regime consisting of registration and reporting requirements, substance risk assessments, and risk management...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from March 15 - April 15, 2016.
Latin America continues to focus on product stewardship initiatives covering a host of issues. This month we see new green-marketing...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from February 15 – March 15, 2016.
Greetings! Spring has sprung and the legislatures are back in full force and active on scores of new initiatives regulating a range of...more
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from January 15, 2015 – February 15, 2016.
LAR is quickly embracing consumer-right-to-know initiatives through a host of new proposed labeling and product claims standards....more
3/7/2016
/ Brazil ,
Ecuador ,
Energy Efficiency ,
Energy Sector ,
Food Labeling ,
GMO ,
Green Marketing ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Latin America ,
Mexico ,
Mining ,
Product Labels ,
Renewable Energy ,
Waste Management ,
Water Conservation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a long awaited proposal to update the Accidental Release Prevention rules at 40 C.F.R. Part 68, which implement the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(7) risk management...more
3/4/2016
/ Clean Air Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Emergency Response ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NAICS ,
OSHA ,
Process Safety Management ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Public Hearing ,
Request For Information ,
Risk Management
This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from December 15, 2015 – January 15, 2016.
Happy New Year! Although activity typically slows down over the holidays, the New Year is off to a fast start, signaling what will...more
After a fall busy with climate change initiatives in advance of the Paris negotiations, recent proposals reflect a resurgence of waste and product take-back initiatives. Key among these are the repeal and revision of Peru’s...more
On September 29, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or the “Agency”) promulgated its final Petroleum Refinery Sector Risk and Technology Review (“RTR”) and New Source Performance Standards (“NSPS”) rule...more
10/16/2015
/ Carbon Emissions ,
Compliance ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Final Rules ,
National Emissions Standards ,
NESHAP ,
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) ,
Oil & Gas ,
Petroleum ,
Petroleum Refining ,
Refineries ,
Sierra Club
Last week, beneath the fanfare surrounding issuance of internal regulations for Mexico’s new oil and gas agency[1] and a suite of conforming amendments to more than half a dozen environmental regulations, the Secretariat of...more