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How to Handle an EPA Inspection: Tips for Success and Mistakes to Avoid

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long conducted inspections to assess the efficacy of companies’ environmental compliance programs. However, under the EPA’s Climate Enforcement and Compliance...more

Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] Environmental Inquiries and Inspections: Be Prepared to Respond - May 2nd, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Whether it’s the Environmental Protection Agency, OSHA, or a state environmental regulator, facing an information request or site inspection can be unnerving. Join Goldberg Segalla partner Sarah B. Mangelsdorf as she reviews...more

Mayer Brown

IBAMA Implements New Calculation Method for Environmental Control and Inspection Fee (TCFA)

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Beginning April 2024, companies registered in Brazil’s Federal Technical Registry of Potentially Polluting Activities (CTF/APP) will begin to pay   the Environmental Control and Inspection Fee (TCFA) under a new calculation...more

Stinson LLP

EPA and State Regulators Outline Region 7 Regulatory Priorities at Environmental Conferences

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Compliance with the PM2.5 Standard: EPA proposed lowering the PM 2.5 standard earlier this year. State agency representatives confirmed that areas in each Region 7 state could struggle to comply with the reduced standard,...more

Wiley Rein LLP

EPA Enforcement – How to Be Ready in 2023

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) enforcement office started off the year with important announcements that change the federal environmental compliance landscape. Civil penalties prescribed by environmental...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Responding to EPA or State Environmental Investigations

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Preparation is key in surviving an EPA or state environmental agency inspection.  Your facility may have advance warning that the inspector will be visiting, so the disruption caused by the inspection can be minimized, but...more

Vicente LLP

The Cannabis Industry’s Environmental Compliance Conundrum

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Operators in the nascent cannabis industry have a lot to worry about on a daily basis, but compliance with state and federal environmental laws hasn’t been an issue of concern for most. Instead, they’re concerned about...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

How the Environmental Justice Movement Could Affect Foreign Investments in Georgia

Attention foreign investors and companies looking to locate or expand in Georgia: Don’t let new Environmental Justice considerations catch you by surprise. Originally published in Global Atlanta - June 25th, 2021. ...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Environmental Justice: An EPA Enforcement Priority

As we reported at the beginning of the year, President Biden has been making environmental justice one of his priorities since long before he took office. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently took...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Environmental Justice and Why You Should Care

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“Environmental Justice” is the concept that all people - regardless of race, color, national origin, or income - should receive fair treatment and have meaningful involvement with respect to the development, implementation,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Philadelphia Zoning, Land Use, and Construction COVID-19 Update

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State and City Government – General - With limited exceptions, all Philadelphia government buildings are closed to the public, and all non-essential government operations are suspended....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

EPA Issues Temporary COVID-19 Relaxed Enforcement Policy

On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “Agency”) sent a Memorandum to all governmental and private sector partners titled “COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

COVID-19: Impacts on Environmental Compliance, Inspections, and Enforcement (Updated 03/27/2020)

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has upended nearly every segment of the economy and government, including environmental compliance and regulation. As a result, state and federal regulatory agencies are...more

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Air Permitting/Emissions: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Announces On-Track...

The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Air Quality issued a news release announcing a new assistance program (“Program”) for facilities subject to permitting for...more

Snell & Wilmer

Double Trouble for Vehicle and Equipment Imports: EPA and Customs Continue Vigorous Port Inspection and Enforcement Program

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Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of recreational vehicles and lawn and garden equipment subject to EPA regulations should take no comfort in rumors of EPA’s reduced enforcement activity under the Trump...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Periodic Operation and Maintenance Walkthrough Inspections Required for Illinois UST Facility Owners and Operators

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New Illinois Office of State Fire Marshall (“OSFM”) regulations, (42 Ill. Reg. 10476, 10662-667, June 15, 2018, effective October 13, 2018), require that periodic operation and maintenance include recorded “walkthrough...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

EPA Turns Up the Heat on Refrigerant Regulation

Refrigeration and cooling systems face expanded and tighter regulation under a final rule recently signed by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The rule revises and expands EPA’s regulations for “Ozone-Depleting Substances”...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Will NYSDEC's Audit Agreement for Retail Pharmacies Provide a Path to Increased Compliance?

Federal and state hazardous waste handling and disposal requirements, which were established to address issues related to industrial waste generators and disposal facilities, are often a complicated and awkward fit for retail...more

BakerHostetler

Ninth Circuit Affirms APHIS’s Deregulation of Roundup Ready Alfalfa; Denies Plaintiffs’ Request for Rehearing En Banc

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In May 2013, the Ninth Circuit in Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack, No. 12-15052 (9th Cir. May 17, 2013), affirmed a district court’s ruling that upheld the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Litigating Against Government Agencies: Case Studies in Challenges to Agency Decisions Under Federal Environmental Statutes

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Record review challenges to federal agency decisions in the environmental context are, arguably, among the most frequently litigated and, yet, the least frequently won or favorably settled federal cases. Several case studies...more

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