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23 May 2010, 2:24 pm
[JURIST] BP [official website; JURIST news archive] is balking at an US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] order issued Thursday directing it to find an alternative dispersant [press release] to address the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [official website] in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 10:00 pm
Draft guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency provides a clearer look at how the agency intends to apply the US Supreme Court's "functional equivalent" analysis to determine when National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits are required for discharges of pollutants reaching waters of the United States through groundwater. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 10:00 pm
Draft guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency provides a clearer look at how the agency intends to apply the US Supreme Court's "functional equivalent" analysis to determine when National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits are required for discharges of pollutants reaching waters of the United States through groundwater. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 9:30 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] issued a Presidential Memorandum [text] to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] Monday, directing the agency to allow California and several other states to impose state vehicle emissions standards that are more stringent than the federal vehicle emissions standards. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 7:40 am
This week marks 50 years since the Cuyahoga River fire sparked an environmental movement, eventually leading to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 7:42 am
Both the US Senate and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on September 30 moved ahead with programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [read post]
31 May 2023, 4:10 pm
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) issued a May 17, 2023, news item stating that it believes that the European Commission’s (EC) revised Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial, published in June 2022, “is too restrictive and could lead to a regression in the protection of public health and the environment. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:06 am
This Environmental Integrity Project paper argues that carbon dioxide emissions from power plants rose 5.56% in 2010 over the year before, the biggest annual increase since the Environmental Protection Agency began tracking emissions in 1995. [read post]
Coalition of US states sues EPA over rule tightening deadline for Clean Air Act implementation plans
21 Jan 2024, 9:10 am
A coalition of 25 US states sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday over a final rule entitled “Adoption and Submittal of State Plans for Designated Facilities: Implementing Regulations Under Clean Air Act Section 111(d),” arguing that the EPA did not have the authority to institute the new rule. [read post]
6 May 2014, 4:39 pm
The Supreme Court has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate air pollution that drifts across state lines. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 11:30 am
The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, was followed by important legal developments, such as President Nixon's reorganization plans setting up the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (July 9, 1970), the Clean Air Act (1970), the Clean Water Act (1972). [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 8:53 am
EPA's proposed regulation that requires states to dramatically restructure their electricity systems based on how the agency thinks electricity should be produced and used in each state. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 6:07 am
Environmental Protection Agency. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 3:33 pm
[JURIST] The US Environmental Protection Agency [press release] Wednesday proposed a new rule [press release] for the calculation of power plant emissions subject to additional pollution controls, adopting a standard recently criticized by the Supreme Court in a ruling earlier this month. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 10:00 pm
The US Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed a rule change that would formally repeal a 2008 rule and require all existing major industrial facilities to include “fugitive” emissions in preconstruction evaluations of major modifications for purposes of triggering New Source Review permitting. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 10:00 pm
In a move that is expected to expand the reach of the Clean Water Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers announced their intent to revise the definition of “waters of the United States”—a key threshold for the Clean Water Act’s application. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 10:00 pm
The US Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed a rule change that would formally repeal a 2008 rule and require all existing major industrial facilities to include “fugitive” emissions in preconstruction evaluations of major modifications for purposes of triggering New Source Review permitting. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 11:55 am
Here’s what’s going on: In 2010 the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency ordered Maryland to reduce stormwater runoff into... [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm
A recent US Environmental Protection Agency final rule seeks to ensure that nearly two dozen states reduce emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that contribute to challenges attaining and maintaining air quality standards in downwind states. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm
A recent US Environmental Protection Agency final rule seeks to ensure that nearly two dozen states reduce emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that contribute to challenges attaining and maintaining air quality standards in downwind states. [read post]
