Seth Jaffe

Seth Jaffe

Foley Hoag LLP


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Coming to a Steam Electric Generating Plant Near You in May 2014 — New Effluent Limitation Guidelines

Last Friday, EPA announced release of its draft proposal to revise the effluent guidelines and standards for the steam electric power generating industry, last revised in 1982. The proposal was in conformance with a...more

4/23/2013 - Discharge of Pollutants Effluent Limitations EPA Final Rules New Source Performance Standards

Logging Road Runoff Does Not Require an NPDES Permit: The Supreme Court (For Now) Defers to EPA’s Interpretation of Its Own...

Yesterday, in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, the Supreme Court ruled that runoff from logging roads does not constitute a discharge from a point source that requires an NPDES permit. The decision upholds...more

3/21/2013 - Discharge of Pollutants EPA Logging NPDES SCOTUS

Combine New Gas Plants, Lower Gas Prices, and More Stringent Emission Controls and What Do You Get? Lower Emissions

ISO New England has just released its Electric Generator Air Emissions Report for 2011. The bottom line?...more

2/14/2013 - Air Pollution Clean Air Act Climate Change Discharge of Pollutants Greenhouse Gas Emissions Natural Gas Oil & Gas

When Do Air Emissions Constitute a Discharge to Waters of the United States? Any Time the Emissions Reach Waters of the United...

In a fascinating post today, my colleague from the American College of Environmental Lawyers, Patricia Finn Braddock, reported on a case at the intersection of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act that could have...more

2/4/2013 - Air Pollution Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Discharge of Pollutants Permits

EPA Splits the Baby on Backup Generators: Still Allows 100 Hours Use, But Now Requires Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel

Yesterday, EPA finalized revisions to the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines, or – one of my new favorite acronyms – RICE. The biggest dispute...more

1/17/2013 - Air Pollution Discharge of Pollutants EPA National Emissions Standards

EPA’s Authority to Set TMDLs Is Limited: Be Careful What You Wish For

Last week, in Virginia Department of Transportation v. EPA, Judge Liam O’Grady struck down EPA’s attempt to set a TMDL for the Accotink Creek in Virginia based on the rate of total stormwater discharge to the Creek, rather...more

1/9/2013 - Chevron Clean Water Act Discharge of Pollutants EPA Storm Water TMDL

Dog Bites Man: Supreme Court Edition

In a curious, but unsurprising, decision yesterday, in Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. NRDC, the Supreme Court held that the flow of water containing pollutants from part of a river that has been culverted into a...more

1/9/2013 - Clean Water Act Discharge of Pollutants NRDC SCOTUS

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