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EPA Releases Draft Insecticide Strategy to Reduce Impacts to ESA-listed Species

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On July 24, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Draft Insecticide Strategy to Reduce Exposure of Federally Listed Endangered and Threatened Species and Designated Critical Habitats from the Use of...more

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EPA Proposes to Exempt Animal Waste From Reporting Requirements

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EPA is currently reviewing comments on its November 14, 2018 proposed rule to exempt livestock farms from reporting routine farm air emissions under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and intends...more

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Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations/EPCRA Reporting Requirements: Environmental Organizations Challenge 2018 U.S. Environmental...

Waterkeeper Alliance and a number of other environmental organizations (collectively “Waterkeeper”) filed a September 28th Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) against the United States Environmental...more

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New Exemption from CERCLA Notification Requirements Re: Released Hazardous Substances

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act’s (CERCLA, also known also as Superfund) stringent hazardous substance release reporting requirements are set forth as Section 103 of Superfund. A...more

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Farms Required to Report Air Releases from Animal Waste

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On April 11, 2017, the Federal Court struck down the 2008 EPA Rule exempting most farms from reporting releases of hazardous air pollutants under CERCLA and EPCRA. The rule exempted farms which had fewer animals than large...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Federal Court Orders CAFOs to Report Air Emissions

On April 11, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down a U.S. EPA rule exempting concentrated animal feeding operations (“CAFOs”) from requirements under CERCLA that mandate reporting of releases of...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

EPA's New Enforcement Initiative Stumbles Out of the Gate

As a result of the D.C. Court of Appeals' (COA) ruling on September 26, 2016 invalidating a Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Memorandum, one of the U.S. Environmental Protection...more

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