Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin on June 11, 2025, announced a proposed rule titled “Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units.” In...more
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) of the House Appropriations Committee issued guidance to House Members on submitting requests for programmatic language and Community Project Funding requests for fiscal...more
Federal legislative activity on PFAS is expected to pick up considerably as Congress comes closer to adjourning for the year. While it’s mid-May, there are only about 70 legislative days left before the end of the year, and...more
As the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expands its regulation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a number of states have also taken steps to regulate the use, production, and sale of products containing...more
On April 25, 2024, the EPA announced, as part of a suite of four rules for fossil fuel-fired power plants, its final greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for power plants—imposing stringent new requirements on existing coal-fired...more
The designation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances will likely result in litigation over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Comprehensive...more
Colorado established statutory greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and a state policy of a 100% renewable grid by 2040. In support of these targets, in 2021 the Governor released a...more
In the third attempt in less than 10 years, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule package (“Proposal”) that would apply strict greenhouse gas emissions standards to the fossil fuel-fired power sector. The...more
On December 30, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Army Corps of Engineers (the “Corps”) (the “Agencies”) released a pre-publication version of yet another new rule redefining “waters of the United...more