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EPA Extends Postponement of Effective Date of Certain Provisions of TCE Risk Management Rule 

On June 23, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the postponement of the effective date of certain regulatory provisions of its December 17, 2024, final risk management rule for trichloroethylene...more

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Recent Ninth Circuit Decision Suggests Effluent Limitation Guidelines Across Multiple Industry Categories May Be Changing Soon

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In its recent decision in Waterkeeper Alliance v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 23-636 (9th Cir. June 18, 2025), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to...more

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Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Argument that United States Environmental Protection Agency...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a June 18th Opinion an issue involving the Clean Water Act Effluent Limit Guidelines (“ELGs”). See Waterkeeper Alliance, et al., v....more

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EPA Will Extend Postponement of Effective Date of Certain Provisions of Final TCE Risk Management Rule

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided on update on June 18, 2025, on the status of the December 2024 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk management rule for trichloroethylene (TCE). According to EPA, it...more

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Pause Continues in Litigation Over PFAS MCLs and Hazardous Substances Designation

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EPA has again obtained extensions of the stays in the litigation challenging the MCLs for six PFAS and the litigation challenging the hazardous substance designation for PFOS and PFOA. EPA requested the U.S. Court of...more

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EPA Continues Reassessment of its 2024 Designation of PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances

The EPA is continuing to reevaluate whether to change its position regarding the Biden administration’s 2024 listing of PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA....more

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EPA Keeps MCL for PFOA and PFOS, Extends Compliance Deadline, and Intends to Rescind MCL for PFHxS, PFNA, GenX, and PFBS

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EPA announced on May 14, 2025 that it will maintain the Maximum Contaminant Level (“MCL”), also known as the national primary drinking water standard, for two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic...more

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Litigation Over PFAS Designation as Hazardous Substances Remains on Hold

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On April 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted an additional 30-day abeyance in the challenge to EPA’s Final Rule designating Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) as...more

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Court Grants EPA’s Request for Abeyance, Denies EPA’s Request for Voluntary Remand in Challenge to Risk Evaluation Rule

As reported in our March 31, 2025, blog item, on March 21, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument in a case challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) May 3,...more

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Clean Air Act Rulemakings Don't Follow the Normal Rules – Just Ask the Supreme Court

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Every law student learns that the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) outlines the default rules for how federal agencies propose and finalize regulations and how courts review them. But for many significant actions under the...more

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EPA Argues for Remand of Final Rule Amending Risk Evaluation Framework

On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument in a case challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) May 3, 2024, final rule amending the procedural...more

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Appellate Court Vacates Requirement that Downstream Entities Reporting by Non-Confidential Accession Number Assert CBI Claims

On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) petition and granted the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and American Fuel and Petrochemical...more

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Fifth Circuit Tells EPA 40-Year-Old Fluorination Process isn’t ‘New’

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Inhance Technologies is a company that has been fluorinating plastic containers using the same process since 1983. The fluorination process creates a barrier that keeps dangerous substances from leaching out of their...more

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The D.C. Circuit Overrules EPA on Regulating Perchlorate

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has the latest word in the long-running saga concerning regulation of the contaminant perchlorate in its decision dated May 9, 2023, when it ruled the U.S....more

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Surprise! A 9th Circuit Clean Water Act opinion that a member of the Supreme Court majority could have written!

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This week three Judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that a District Court Judge exceeded his authority in vacating an EPA regulation without first determining that the regulation was unlawful. The Trump...more

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Another case in which a non-governmental organization wants a court to tell EPA how to do its job

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Yesterday a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard from lawyers for the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Environmental Protection Agency...more

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The Supreme Court surprised many observers with this Clean Water Act decision but it may not mean what some observers think it...

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Today five Justices of the United States Supreme Court reversed a California Federal District Court Judge's decision vacating a Clean Water Act rule enacted by the Trump Administration EPA. The 2020 rule had reduced the role...more

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Extra Time For States In Clean Water Act Match Unlikely To End

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One of the many things I've never understood about soccer (football in the rest of the world) is that the referee can decide, or not, to add "extra time" at the end of the game to account for what she sees as unusual events. ...more

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Hardrock Mining/Superfund: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Addressing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Declination to...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (“Court”) issued a July 19th decision addressing the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) decision to not develop financial responsibility...more

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[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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EPA Delays Applicability of Clean Water Rule While Challenges to Rule Proceed in District Courts

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As reported in our prior Update, in a decision issued on January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, 138 S. Ct. 617, that challenges to the Obama...more

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Supreme Court Makes Jurisdictional Determination on Clean Water Act Rule - EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Act to Delay Rule...

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• U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously – on narrow procedural grounds – that the courts of appeals do not have original jurisdiction to hear challenges to the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Obama Administration's 2015 rule...more

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Circuit Court Grants Writ of Mandamus Requiring EPA to Act on Petition to Ban Chlorpyrifos

In an opinion issued on August 10, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted a writ of mandamus requested by Pesticide Action Network North America and the Natural Resources Defense Council (Petitioners)...more

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Who Gets to Review EPA Actions? The Court of Appeals? The District Court? (Hint: The Answer Is Not “Neither One”)

The general rule under the Clean Air Act is that any: person may bring suit in district court against the EPA Administrator for an alleged failure to perform a nondiscretionary act or duty, and the district court has...more

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