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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 8.1.25

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 proposed to repeal its landmark finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health. The EPA’s so-called endangerment finding, issued in 2009, is a formal...more

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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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EPA Proposes Repeal of 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Amendments

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On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced a proposed rule to repeal key amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ("MATS") for coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam...more

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EPA Proposes New Renewable Fuel Standards

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a landmark rule revising the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. This proposal – termed the “Set 2” Rule - marks the 20th anniversary of the RFS program and reflects...more

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EPA Proposes Granting Texas Primacy for Class VI Wells

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The proposal could accelerate the permitting process for carbon capture and storage projects in the state. On June 9, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a proposed rule that, if approved, would...more

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Texas Progresses Toward CCS Primacy

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This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the penultimate step to granting Texas the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control (UIC)...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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Carbon Sequestration Advances in Texas as EPA Proposes to Grant Class VI Primacy

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On June 9, 2025, EPA issued a prepublication version of the proposed rule granting Class VI underground injection control (“UIC”) primary enforcement authority (“primacy”) to Texas. Class VI UIC wells are used for the...more

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EPA Proposes Granting Arizona Primacy for All Classes of Injection Wells

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The proposal could accelerate the permitting process for projects in the state, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects....more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 5.16.25

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will rescind much of the Biden administration’s first nationwide drinking water standard aimed at protecting people from PFAS, which are found in hundreds of consumer and...more

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EPA Announces Sweeping Deregulatory Agenda: The Complete Set of EPA’s 31 Actions and Affected Environmental Regulations

In what it called “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its most expansive deregulatory initiative to date on March 12, 2025. Through a...more

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The Future of EPA's Risk Management Program May Be Found in History

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced it would reconsider the 2024 Risk Management Program ("RMP") rule....more

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Energy & Sustainability Washington Update — December 2024

Coming up on a month since the presidential election, some things are starting to become clearer, though many questions remain. We will release a Viewpoints article in the next week that will be a more in-depth assessment of...more

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MethaneSat Joins Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Constellation

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On March 4, 2024, MethaneSat, a satellite developed by a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund that will locate and quantify methane emissions from oil and gas operations, was launched into orbit. According to the...more

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U.S. EPA's New Methane Emissions Charge – My Wallet or Yours?

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On January 12, 2024, the EPA announced a proposed new rule entitled Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems (the "Proposed Rule"). As required by Congress pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA"),...more

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[CLE Hybrid Event] Making Sense of Methane for the Oil and Gas Sector: EPA’s New Methane Tax, Operating Regulations, and GHG...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released proposed and final rules that will regulate methane emissions from oil and gas operations, implement a methane emissions tax, and change greenhouse gas reporting...more

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EPA Proposes Oil and Gas Sector Methane Fee: Proposed Rule Includes Calculation Procedures for the Inflation Reduction Act’s...

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Key Takeaways - • What Is Happening? On January 12, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to implement the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Methane Waste Emissions Charge (WEC)....more

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Methane Series Part III: Implementation Is Here. EPA Published the Proposed Rule Implementing the First-Ever Direct Tax on Methane...

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We wrote an overview of the methane tax after the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law in August 2022 and Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose the first-ever direct tax on methane...more

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The EPA’s Methane Waste Emission Charge: A Tax by Any Other Name

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a proposed rule to assess and collect billions of dollars in methane “waste emission charges” from the oil and gas sector....more

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Ahead of Methane Emission Fees, EPA Proposes New Reporting Rules for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry

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The Situation: The Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") requires the U.S Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") to finalize new greenhouse gas reporting rules for the petroleum and natural gas industry based on "empirical...more

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Mercury/Air Toxics Standard NESHAP for Coal and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units: National Association of Clean...

The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (“NACAA”) submitted June 22nd comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in its docket addressing Proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous...more

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EPA Proposes New Limitations on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Electric Generating Units

On May 11, 2023, USEPA announced proposed rules to further limit the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and other electric generating units (EGUs). Industry trade associations assert that these regulations are...more

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EPA Proposes Widespread Ban on Methylene Chloride Under TSCA: Will Your Operations Be Impacted?

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EPA has issued a proposed rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to ban most uses of methylene chloride, also known as dichloromethane or DCM. Methylene chloride is a chemical with a wide range of industrial and...more

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EPA Super Sizes Proposal to Crack Down on Methane from Oil and Gas Sector

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This article is the second in a two-part series analyzing recent proposals by federal agencies to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas production. The first article addresses the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)...more

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Summary of the Department of the Interior’s New Methane Rule

Overview - On November 28, the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed methane rule. This action furthers the Biden-Harris administration’s whole-of-government response to...more

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