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EPR Group Consulting Inc.

EPR Programs: What About B2B Packaging?

There is consternation among some industries that extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs for packaging in the United States include business-to-business (B2B) packaging – and thus may compromise the specialized reuse...more

Goldberg Segalla

Colorado Bans Sale and Distribution of Products Containing PFAS

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As regularly reported by the Environmental Law Monitor, state legislatures have increasingly been taking action independent of federal government regulation to address the significant challenge of eliminating per- and...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Moving Targets: Multi-State EPR Packaging Laws—Key Updates & Deadlines

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Across the country, states are enacting so called “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) laws aimed at reducing plastic waste and shifting the cost of recycling these plastics from the consumer back to the producer. This is...more

Woodruff Sawyer

New Sustainability Laws Will Transform US Manufacturing and Food Processing

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is becoming a key regulatory strategy in sustainability, holding companies accountable for the lifecycle impacts of their products, especially packaging. Governments worldwide, including...more

Rodemer Kane Attorneys at Law

Colorado Springs Personal Injury Lawyer Explains Semi Truck Laws and Truck Driver Rights

Colorado's scenic highways and bustling urban centers are home to a constant flow of commercial truck traffic. With this heavy presence of large vehicles comes the need for robust laws and regulations to ensure safety for all...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Colorado Bill Seeks to Expand ECMC Authority Over Carbon Management

Building on 2023 legislation granting the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) authority over wells used to inject and permanently sequester carbon dioxide (CO2), the Colorado General Assembly is...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Colorado GHG Roadmap 2.0

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Colorado established statutory greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and a state policy of a 100% renewable grid by 2040. In support of these targets, in 2021 the Governor released a...more

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Tenth Circuit Ruling on Temporary Emissions in Colorado Will Have Widespread Impacts on Air Permitting in Western States

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In a decision with implications for air permitting across the West, a divided three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded EPA’s approval of Colorado’s state implementation plan (SIP) based...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Combating Misperception: Arizona Is Not Out Of Water; Construction Has Not Been Suspended

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Contrary to the catastrophic picture painted by news sources around the country, Arizona is not out of water, construction has not been suspended, and a construction moratorium has not been issued by the Governor. The real...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Colorado’s Legislature Stops Short of Enabling Intrastate Carbon Capture

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Decarbonizing the energy economy and avoiding the worst effects of climate change is the order of the day in the Biden administration and state capitol’s nationwide. Most recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Colorado Makes Policy Moves With an Eye Toward Regulating Carbon Sequestration

The Colorado Oil and Gas Commission Will Become the 'Energy and Carbon Management Commission,' Among Other Changes - Interest in sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) underground is expanding in Colorado. During the first half...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

PFAS Regulations: Why Manufacturers and Retailers Need to Stay Alert

Although there is no federal ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in ‎textiles, there continues to be activity at the state level to limit PFAS in textiles, with many ‎prohibitions becoming active over the next...more

Snell & Wilmer

Biden Administration Considers Interrupting the “Law of the River” Status QuoPrint

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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has released its Near-term Colorado River Operations Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, analyzing three paths forward for managing the Colorado River in light of the potentially...more

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Navigable Waters Protection Rule Takes Effect in Colorado

The proper definition of “waters of the United States” is fiercely debated, and debatable. The Trump administration’s foray into the definition—the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (“NWPR”)—was issued in mid-2020 and...more

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