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Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge: Environmental Enforcement in the Current Regulatory Climate
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The Current and Future Landscapes of EPA Criminal and Civil Enforcement
FERC: A Discussion on its Mission, Market Manipulation Investigations, and Common Violations
Environmental criminal law in France has developed steadily over the past several years. Recently, however, there has been a shift of the political narrative — both in Europe and domestically — toward simplification rather...more
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) circulated a draft template, dated April 8, 2025, to assist federal agencies in updating their procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....more
Insights from decades of intense scrutiny of dioxins and PCBs in the environment, beginning in the 1960s, remain pertinent to our current challenges with PFAS. The lessons learned regarding detection and measurement,...more
On Monday, January 13, 2025, California withdrew requests for Clean Air Act waivers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needed to support four recently adopted vehicle emissions regulations: 1) the Advanced...more
We anticipate President Trump’s upcoming term will usher in significant shifts in U.S. environmental enforcement priorities and practices. Beveridge & Diamond has helped clients navigate every change in administration since...more
A state attorney general (AG) and a major American corporation recently battled over the scope and applicability of the government contractor defense....more
The EPA Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) February 15, 2024, report on EPA’s practices in collecting, retaining, and producing criminal discovery materials in environmental cases found that EPA’s special agents largely...more
Compliance with the PM2.5 Standard: EPA proposed lowering the PM 2.5 standard earlier this year. State agency representatives confirmed that areas in each Region 7 state could struggle to comply with the reduced standard,...more
Bloomberg is reporting that 3M and the two companies responsible for the liability of what used to be DuPont have agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the City of Rome, Georgia for the cost of engineering...more
As has been its tradition for nearly 25 years, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it is seeking public comment on its National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (“NECIs”) for fiscal years...more
On January 6, 2022, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, held that the “sudden and accidental” pollution exclusion (SAPE) and “absolute” pollution exclusion (APE) in liability policies relieved...more
PFAS continues to be an area of focus for EPA and state agencies, as well as an ever-increasing litigation risk for companies that have manufactured, imported, processed, or otherwise used products including chemicals...more