The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has initiated rulemaking to list cleaning products containing hydrofluoric acid (HF) as Priority Products under California’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) Program and…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Environmental Law
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What Happened: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) finalized a rule that took effect May 26, 2026, codifying the findings of its Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Licensing of New Nuclear…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Superfund Solutions Initiative signals the agency’s push to accelerate the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) investigations and…
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/ Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Key Takeaways What’s Happening: The Basel Convention’s Open-ended Working Group will consider used textiles and textile wastes at its fifteenth meeting (OEWG-15), scheduled for June 23–26, 2026, in Geneva. Meeting documents now…
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/ Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
In the last days of the Biden administration in January 2025, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Draft Risk Assessment for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS)…
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/ Agriculture, Environmental Law
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What Happened: Norway nominated decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE) and its related substance for listing under the Stockholm Convention. The European Union (EU) nominated bis(2-ethylhexyl) tetrabromophthalate…
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/ Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
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Denver’s Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC) is developing Indirect Source Rules (ISRs) to curb emissions from trucks and passenger vehicles by regulating facilities such as warehouses, entertainment venues,…
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/ Environmental Law, Transportation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated the district court order that required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the “unreasonable risk” the court found to be posed by the…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
Key Takeaways What Happened? On May 26, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule revising several requirements under the 2023 Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Technology Transitions Rule (TTR), which…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now faces a June 30, 2026, deadline to issue a final response to a citizen petition seeking enforceable per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) limits in or on certain foods. The…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law
On May 8, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew its 2024 proposed rule defining hazardous waste applicable to corrective action for releases from solid waste management units. The proposal would have…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
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What Happened: On May 15, 2026, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) formally released a proposed regulation that would, for the first time, expressly define pesticide-treated seeds under…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Environmental Law
What Happened: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed to delay Biden-era Tier 4 emissions standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles by two years, extending Tier 3 standards through model years (MYs)…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Transportation
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What Happened: The Ninth Circuit reminded us that TSCA has teeth—and those teeth may apply to the world of recycling, disposal, wastewater, and biosolids. On May 13, 2026, the Ninth Circuit remanded the U.S…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
Budget issues dominated much of Washington’s 2026 legislative session, but also reflected the continuation of the state’s environmental policy agenda, particularly Washington’s climate, clean energy, and environmental protection…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Indigenous Peoples
