Electro-Extraction and the Future of E-Waste with Megan O'Connor, CEO and Co-founder of Nth Cycle - Battery + Storage Podcast
Reuse to the Rescue: Talking Water Reuse with Pat Sinicropi, Executive Director, WateReuse Association - Reflections on Water Podcast
The Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition (“CKRC”) submitted November 21st comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA”) addressing the following Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) titled: ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: USEPA has published a new Memo on RCRA Applicability to End-of-Life Lithium Batteries. ...more
On May 24, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) issued guidance on the potential applicability of the nation’s hazardous waste regulatory program under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a May 24th Guidance Memorandum titled: Lithium Battery Recycling Regulatory Status and Frequently Asked Questions (“Memorandum”)...more
For the past five months, Proskauer has acted as pro bono counsel to Instituto Recicleiros (Recicleiros), a Brazilian non-profit, in obtaining a grant from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW). AEPW is an industry-founded...more
The California Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) recently launched an emergency rulemaking amending California’s definition of scrap metal to align it with federal requirements and clarifying the process by which...more
I undertook an Arkansas Environmental Federation webinar held by the organization’s Land and Sustainability Committee on May 20th titled: Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recycling Administrative/Judicial Developments: 2020-2021...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld the Transfer-Based Exclusion in EPA’s final rule Revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste, 73 Fed. Reg. 64,668, 64,669 (Oct. 30, 2008). The...more
I undertook a presentation on April 17th at the Arkansas Environmental Federation Regulated Waste Seminar titled: Solid and Hazardous Waste Judicial/Regulatory Developments: 2018 – 2019 - The discussion addressed...more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made several recent changes that will affect compliance obligations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). First, EPA finalized revisions to the definition of...more
I undertook a presentation at the Arkansas Environmental Federation Regulated Waste Seminar titled: Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recycling Developments: 2017-2018 (“Presentation”) ...more
The Arkansas Environmental Federation will hold its annual Regulated Waste Seminar on April 17th. The seminar will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the Holiday Inn – Airport....more
One of the most vexing aspects of hazardous waste management hinges on a very basic question: whether something is in fact a regulated hazardous waste in the first place. This fundamental issue often arises for recycled or...more