Clean Water Act, Oil & Gas

This Week's Climate Policy Update - September 2024

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/18/2024

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

Environment & Energy Insights (August 2024)

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 8/12/2024

Welcome to the August edition of Nutter’s Environment & Energy Insights, a monthly update of current trends in environment and energy law. This month we cover: EPA’s new Facility Response Plan requirements for potential...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 5.31.24

Allen Matkins on 6/3/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether federal and state agencies must clearly define limits on wastewater pollution when issuing discharge permits. The high court took up the City of San Francisco’s...more

Underground Injection Control: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition Filed Addressing Allegheny County, Pennsylvania...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/30/2024

Two individuals filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“Board”) challenging an Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Class II-D...more

D.C. Circuit upholds FERC orders granting natural gas pipeline companies’ requests to extend project deadlines.

Troutman Pepper on 4/25/2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (“D.C. Circuit”) recently upheld two FERC orders granting natural gas pipeline developers’ requests to extend their construction deadlines. The D.C. Circuit...more

Oil Pollution Act: Tips for Spill Response, Compliance, and Enforcement

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 2/14/2024

Oil spills commonly occur when least expected and, even in smaller quantities can significantly disrupt business operations and create risks for enforcement and/or litigation. It’s important that companies are prepared and...more

404/Clean Water Act Enforcement: United States/West Virginia and Glenville, West Virginia, Oil and Gas Company Enter into Consent...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 10/16/2023

The United States Department of Justice and the State of West Virginia entered into a September 28th Consent Decree (“CD”) with Waco Oil and Gas Company, Inc. (“Waco”) addressing alleged violations of both the Clean Water Act...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 9.15.23

Allen Matkins on 9/21/2023

The Biden administration is restoring significant state and tribal authority over water resources and expanding their leverage on infrastructure permitting decisions, including for pipelines. With a final rule announced this...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 8.11.23

Allen Matkins on 8/14/2023

Monterey County's voter-approved ban on new oil and gas wells is invalid because state law authorizes and promotes oil and gas production, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously last Thursday. Next year, California voters...more

EPA Revises National Contingency Plan to Assist with Oil Spill Responses

Goldberg Segalla on 6/9/2023

In 1990, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act, also known as the OPA. The act was in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and it amended the Clean Water Act of 1972. Its purpose was to avoid oil spills from...more

Climate Policy Update - March 2023

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/23/2023

President Biden issued his first veto to reject a Congressional Review Act measure to shoot down the Department of Labor’s environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) rule. Governors are also pushing back on the Biden...more

Marcellus Shale Update: Energy Remains an Important Electoral Issue Even in “Safe” States Like New York: Law Firm, Attorneys

Flaster Greenberg PC on 10/19/2022

Now less than one month before Election Day, the New York Governor's race is far closer than most had anticipated. Incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul, who succeeded Andrew Cuomo following his resignation, is being pressed by...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - October 2022 #2

Allen Matkins on 10/13/2022

U.S. Supreme Court leans toward limiting scope of Clean Water Act - U.S. News & World Report – October 3 - U.S. Supreme Court justices on October 3 appeared open to limiting the reach of the U.S. Environmental Protection...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - August 2022

Allen Matkins on 8/8/2022

Sonoma County vintner to pay $925,000 in environmental damage settlement Bullet The Press Democrat – July 31 The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office last Friday announced that a $925,000 settlement had been reached with...more

SPCC/Clean Water Act Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Skiatook, Oklahoma, Municipal Airport Enter into...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/30/2022

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the City of Skiatook, Oklahoma (“Skiatook”), entered into a June 8th Expedited Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (“SPCC”) Settlement Agreement...more

The State AG Report – 6.23.2022

Cozen O'Connor on 6/27/2022

Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •AG Bonta Joins Coalition Filing Amicus Brief...more

Nationwide Permit 12/Oil or Natural Gas Pipeline Activities: Republican Senators Announce Opposition to U.S. Corps of Engineers...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/27/2022

Ranking Environment and Public Works Committee Member United States Senator Shelley Moore Capito and other Republican Senators sent an April 20th letter to the Assistant Secretary for the Army for Civil Works of the United...more

EPA Expands Clean Water Act Spill Response Planning to Hazardous Substances

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 4/26/2022

Key Takeaways - • What Is Happening? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule requiring certain facilities to prepare Facility Response Plans (FRPs) for responding to worst case discharges...more

Nationwide Permit 12 Update: Permit that Allows for Expedited Approval for Certain Oil and Natural Gas Pipeline Activities...

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 4/4/2022

On March 28, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) published notice (“Notice”) that it is undertaking a formal review of Nationwide Permit (“NWP”) 12, one of over 50 general permits available nationwide that allow...more

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