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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 8.8.25

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On July 23, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order titled “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure.” Released alongside “America’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan,” the Order reflects a...more

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Evaluation of the EPA's Implementation of the Underground Injection Control Class VI Well Program: EPA Office of Inspector General...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a July 28th report titled: Evaluation of the EPA’s Implementation of the Underground Injection Control Class VI Well...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Well, Well: Outlook for CCUS Projects in Texas Improves as EPA Proposes to Delegate Permitting Authority and the Texas Supreme...

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On June 17, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule to approve Texas’s application for primary permitting and enforcement responsibility (primacy) for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration wells...more

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Texas Clears Penultimate Hurdle to Class VI Primacy: What it Means for CCS and State-Led Permitting

On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed granting the State of Texas primary enforcement authority—commonly referred to as “primacy”—over the permitting and regulation of Class VI underground...more

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PFAS Update: 2022 Federal PFAS Regulatory Recap

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As anticipated, 2022 was another eventful year for the regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) at the federal level. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) took significant actions under...more

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Underground Injection Control/California Power Generation Plant: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition for Review

Panoche Energy Center, LLC, (“PEC”) filed an October 28th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging certain conditions of...more

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California Steps Up Its Investigations and Permitting of PFAS

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The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) recently updated the regulated community and the public on the Board’s statewide investigation to study and sample potential sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more

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Brine Injection/UIC: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses Challenges to Class II Permit

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed in an August 8th Order challenges to an Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Class II Permit (“Permit”) issued by the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - June 2018 #2

LyondellBasell Looking to Control Braskem; Could Help WV Cracker - "A deal could breathe life into the ethane cracker Braskem proposed for a site near Parkersburg, W.Va., roughly five years ago." Why this is important:...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?

A recent decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Hawai'i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui) created a new standard for permitting under the Clean Water Act — one that captures discharges from point sources through...more

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Unresolved Reg 2 Issues and Triennial Review Preview: Raymond E. Wieda, PE (FTN Associates) Arkansas Environmental Federation...

Mr. Raymond E. Wieda, undertook a presentation at the 2018 Arkansas Environmental Federation Water Seminar titled: Unresolved Reg 2 Issues and Triennial Review Preview (“Presentation”) ...more

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Administration's Infrastructure Plan Supports Reuse of Brownfields and Superfund Sites

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• The Trump Administration released an ambitious $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Feb. 12, 2018 – a plan that includes many provisions focused upon encouraging the reuse of contaminated brownfields and Superfund sites. ...more

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Second Circuit Upholds EPA’s Water Transfers Rule

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Transfers Rule last week. Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, et al. v. EPA, et al. 14-1823, 14-1909,...more

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