In This Issue:

1 - President proposes new hardrock mining fees in economic growth plan

3 - European Union enforces carbon emissions cap-and-trade on U.S. airlines

3 - McAfee & Taft attends 2011 International Pipeline Security Forum in Canada

3 - EEOC sues trucking company for keeping alcoholic driver off the road

4 - DHS publishes ammonium nitrate security program notice of proposed rulemaking

4 - SIDEBAR

5 - Comment deadline extended for new oil and gas air emission regulation

5 - EPA’s long-delayed CWA general permits for pesticides sprayed near waters of the U.S.

6 - OSHA directive addresses workplace violence

7 - Waste company and executives criminally indicted

7 - EPA lifts EPCRA 313 administrative stay

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