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Climate change is driving the need for new approaches to mapping floodplains and understanding flooding risks...
Exponent
New designations for PFOA and PFOS will trigger cleanups at numerous Superfund and other impacted sites...
Nossaman LLP
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Center for Biological Diversity entered into a settlement agreement wherein the Service agreed to submit to the Federal Register final listing decisions ...
Taft Stettinius & Hollister
On April 25, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized four new rules implementing pollution restrictions for power plants.
Jenner & Block
As we wrap up our week-long celebration of Earth Day with insightful articles focusing on various aspects of plastic pollution, this final article focuses on how the courts...
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger
After many years of drought, in late 2023 and early 2024 California experienced significant rain. Indeed, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Jenner & Block
Microplastics, plastics less than 5 millimeters in length, are becoming a growing concern due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment and potential effects...
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Pennsylvania has an aggressive brownfields remediation program under the Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act (Act 2), 35 Pa. Stat. Ann. Sections 6026.101 to .908.
McGlinchey Stafford
On April 17, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Pre-Publication Notice that it was submitting a final rule (Rule) for publication in the Federal Register...
Perkins Coie LLP
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Final Rule on April 19, 2024, designating two of the most common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—PFOA and PFOS...
Barnes & Thornburg
On Earth Day, April 22, the Biden administration issued its final selections for grants from the $27 billion Green Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)...
Jenner & Block
Since 1983, Inhance has been fluorinating plastic containers using the same process, which involves the creation of a barrier to prevent substances from leaching out of the containers ...
Foley & Lardner
On April 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its long-awaited final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid ...
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Last month in New York, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department delivered a victory to landfill operator Waste Management, dismissing a laundry list of tort claims arising out of a real estate...
Michael Best & Friedrich
Last week, USEPA Administrator Regan signed the final rule designating PFOA, PFOS and their salts and structural isomers as hazardous substances pursuant to Sec. 102(a)...
Dechert
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has designated PFOA and PFOS as "Hazardous Substances" under CERCLA, marking the agency's first use of Section 102(a) authority and signaling potential widespread industry impact due to the chemicals' historical and ongoing use.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "the Agency") released details of its highly anticipated rule listing perfluorooctanoic acid ("PFOA")...
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once opined that "a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments.
Linklaters
On April 9, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") released several final rules1 that regulate emissions and require new air monitoring...
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden touted clean energy investments in hopes of garnering support ahead of the 2024 election.
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