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Carolinas Environmental Legislative Update

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Both the North and South Carolina legislatures have recently adopted statutes affecting environmental issues in their respective states. This update highlights the most significant developments in North and South Carolina....more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

2024 Environmental, Health, and Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

PFAS — perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — have been on the scene for years now, but we expect to see exponential growth in all things PFAS in 2024....more

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Washington State Wildfire Smoke Rules Impose New Employer Requirements

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As many Washington residents are aware, wildfires, and wildfire smoke, are becoming an increasingly regular occurrence. The increase in wildfires has often led to days—or even weeks—of smoky air throughout the state....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Gaining Momentum Surrounding Carbon Capture Use and Sequestration: Overcoming Legal and Regulatory Hurdles

As the country, policymakers and industry focus on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon capture use and sequestration (CCUS) has become an important piece of the solution. CCUS is capturing carbon dioxide (CO2)...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Property Owners with Recorded Environmental Use Restrictions Subject to New Obligations

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As detailed in prior client alerts, Connecticut is in the midst of a transformative effort with regard to its environmental programs.  This transformation includes on its face smaller, but no less important, components that...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

National Construction Safety Week: Preventing Accidents on the Jobsite

Even as the construction industry continues its recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it also continues to focus on worker safety. Consistent with this focus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Federal Government Releases Draft Greenhouse Gas Offset System Regulations

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On March 5, 2021, the federal government released draft Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations (Draft Regulations), providing some clarity as to how federal offsets will be created, tracked and ultimately used to...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

2021 Environmental, Health, and Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

This week, we continue with our 2021 outlook series with a focus on environmental, health, and safety. This year brings a new Presidential administration, and with it will come a host of new programs, as well as some new...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Webinar] Wine Industry Roundtable - November 5th, 10:00 am - 11:30 am PT

COVID, fires, shut downs, smoke taint: 2020 has brought one challenge after another to the wine industry. With our roots in the industry we ourselves are dealing, and are seeing our clients and friends deal, with many novel...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Review Your Environmental, Health And Safety Management Systems To Minimize Regulatory Enforcement Risks Post-Quarantine

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On March 26, 2020, as government officials issued a slew of stay-at-home orders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published an emergency policy memorandum describing how the agency would exercise its enforcement...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

PADEP Updates Chapter 102 Earth Disturbance Permitting Guidance

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) has updated guidance for holders of certain environmental permits, further impacting the ability of non-essential construction projects to proceed....more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - April 2020 #2

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U.S. EPA directive instructs regions to evaluate impact of COVID-19 on site clean-ups on a case-by-case basis - EPA – April 10 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued guidance to its eleven...more

McAfee & Taft

ODEQ to exercise enforcement discretion, as warranted, during COVID-19 crisis

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On March 30, 2020, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) provided written guidance regarding enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Please note the following highlights...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

EPA Enforcement Falls Victim to COVID-19

In response to requests for leniency as companies grapple with reduced workforces during the COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a temporary policy announcing that it will exercise...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Issues No Action Assurance Memorandums in Response to COVID-19 Caused...

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Last week, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (“ADEC”) issued two No Action Assurance Memorandums, one from the Division of Water (“Water Memo”) and one from the Division of Air Quality (“Air Memo”), to...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

EPA Issues Enforcement Discretion Policy During COVID-19

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a memorandum describing how and when the Agency will implement temporary enforcement discretion for certain federal environmental noncompliance during the COVID-19...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

U.S. EPA’s Temporary COVID-19 Enforcement Discretion Policy

On Thursday, March 26, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced and issued a Memo establishing an agency-wide temporary enforcement policy suspending or staying a broad array of enforcement efforts...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Issues for the Natural Resources Sectors during COVID-19

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Across Canada, companies and regulators are taking unprecedented steps to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to protect the health and safety of the workforce while adapting to the evolving regulatory responses to...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

COVID-19 Pandemic Will Soon be Impacting Compliance with and Enforcement of Environmental Laws

EPA existing guidance provides some conceptual anchoring for informing evolving risk management considerations. - Regulated parties face disruption of their ability to comply with environmental, health & safety laws due...more

Morgan Lewis

EPA Seeking Public Comment on New Registration for Textile Preservative

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has made a preliminary finding that NSPW Nanosilver, the proposed active ingredient of POLYGUARD-NSPW MASTER BATCH, meets federal standards for use as a textile preservative. The EPA is...more

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EPA Takes Key Step Toward Regulation of PFAS

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On March 10, 2020, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its proposed Preliminary Regulatory Determinations for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in drinking water, thereby...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

New Environmental and Telecommunications Laws

Telecommunications - AB 1699 Telecommunications: mobile Internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies - Fire officials experienced a significant data transmission slowdown of their mobile emergency...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

FCC Takes Action on Wireless RF Emissions Standards

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Will this Quell Public Concerns About the Safety of 5G Deployments? As wireless carriers increasingly seek to install wireless networks on utility poles and street lights within communities across the country, they often...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

PFAS Update: EPA Progress Under PFAS Action Plan

Earlier this year, we wrote about EPA’s PFAS Action Plan, the agency’s blueprint for addressing contamination and protecting public health from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). ...more

Sullivan & Worcester

PFAS Updates: Congressional and Federal Regulatory Developments

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This posting provides an update on PFAS developments involving federal legislative and regulatory activities. Congress - On November 6, 2019, a panel of experts at a congressional briefing sponsored by the Endocrine...more

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