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This proclamation addresses the EPA’s April 5, 2024 final rule, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Ethylene Oxide Emissions Standards for Sterilization Facilities Residual Risk and Technology Review, 89...more
As reported in our May 14, 2025, blog item, on May 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a petition filed under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) seeking to prohibit the use of...more
On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court held that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — which requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of projects that they perform, fund, or approve — does not...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) issued an April 28th news release announcing the release of the Final Report on the Community Air Monitoring and Notification System Task Force (“Task Force”)....more
In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration established an electronic mailbox to allow the regulated community to request a Presidential Exemption to certain requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Under Section...more
The Clean Air Council and two other environmental organizations filed a February 11th submission with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: PETITION TO PROHIBIT...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday banned two solvents found in everyday products that can cause cancer and other serious diseases. It was a move long sought by environmental and health advocates, even...more
In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS, the EPA delays PFAS reporting, a compostable case won’t degrade, and Illinois keeps an...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued a report titled: Our Nation’s Air: Trends Through 2023 (“Report”). The purpose of the annual Report is to track trends in air quality and emissions...more
On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos. Chrysotile asbestos, also known as “white asbestos,” has several current uses, such as...more
On February 14, Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Joy Campbell filed a civil lawsuit against Holtec Decommissioning International LLC and its affiliate Holtec Pilgrim LLC (Holtec), alleging the improper handling of...more
In the Byzantine complexity of the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA’s “once in, always in” policy regarding hazardous air pollutants (HAP) has been particularly confounding. And now it’s back in play, through regulatory revisions...more
As we approach the two-year mark, there are plenty of unfinished items on the President’s to-do list. One in particular that tends to escape the limelight is of crucial importance to implementing Biden’s policy priorities,...more
California becomes first state to test drinking water for microplastics - San Francisco Chronicle – September 7 - On Wednesday, California became the first state to begin requiring water agencies to test for microplastics,...more
A few considerations practitioners should keep in mind when dealing with contamination involving per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination. The PFAS Action Act of 2021 passed in the House and was received in...more
On April 8, 2022, U.S. EPA added the industrial solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP) to its list of CERCLA hazardous substances; this listing was triggered by U.S. EPA’s decision to add 1-BP to the Clean Air Act’s list of hazardous...more
On Wednesday July 21, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021. The bill, H.R. 2467, passed 241-183 demonstrating its bipartisan support, with twenty-three Republicans joining their...more
Can you still build a bulkhead along the shoreline in coastal Virginia to protect your property? Well, it depends, but now the answer is more likely to be “no.” Major changes to how Virginia tidal waterfront property owners...more
While much of recent federal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) regulatory activity has focused on water supply and soil contamination of PFAS compounds, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) ongoing...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced it is proposing to retain the current Clean Air Act National Ambient Air Quality Standard (“NAAQS”) for particulate matter (“PM”). The PM standard includes...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“TACB”) issued a March 4th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) addressing an alleged air permit violation by State Industries, LLC (“State”). See...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a March 25th Notification of Evaluation titled: Status of Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan Submittals and Approvals...more
In November, Democrats won control of the House of Delegates and kept control over the Commonwealth’s Senate. Now, Democrats control both the Executive and Legislative branches of government in the Commonwealth of Virginia....more
Since 1995, EPA has followed a policy that any air emissions source that emits one or more hazardous air pollutants (“HAPs”) above major source emissions thresholds is always considered a major source of HAPs. This is so even...more
On January 25, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew its longstanding but controversial “once in, always in” policy that a “major source” of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) was forever locked into “major...more