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Compliance Tip of the Day: Measuring Compliance Training Effectiveness
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Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 15, 2025, The Downfall in Davos Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 14, 2025, The Widened Whistleblower Program Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
The JustPod: A Discussion with Defense Counsel Rocco Cipparone and Angie Levy on January 6 Prosecutions
Compliance into the Weeds: USRA Declination Case Study - Self-Disclosure Best Practices
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
Daily Compliance News: May 1, 2025, The 100 Days of Corruption Edition
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Episode 366 -- DOJ Issues Data Security Program Requirements
Episode 365 -- Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ’s Reliance on FCA to Pursue Covid-Related Fraud
Compliance into the Weeds: The Uncertain Future of Compliance Monitors under the Trump Administration
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 59 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: DOJ Focus
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 10, 2025, The Dark Money Corruption Edition
EPA announced on May 14, 2025 that it will maintain the Maximum Contaminant Level (“MCL”), also known as the national primary drinking water standard, for two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic...more
Newly-appointed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a memo this Wednesday that the Justice Department will reverse a Biden-era directive to prioritize enforcement of environmental laws in disadvantaged and low-income...more
We anticipate President Trump’s upcoming term will usher in significant shifts in U.S. environmental enforcement priorities and practices. Beveridge & Diamond has helped clients navigate every change in administration since...more
Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more
Intensifying international crises, increasing regulatory burdens, and uncertain macroeconomic conditions have led to an era of caution for manufacturers, but hidden among those challenges are exciting opportunities for...more
What consumers can do to reduce environmental health threats all around us - It’s a paradox of modern life: We want more and more stuff, and we want to get all of it faster, cheaper, more conveniently. And yet, does our...more
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (“PEER”) filed in June a Judicial Action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“Court”) arguing that the United States Environmental Protection...more
A new lawsuit filed in April by public drinking water systems in California against manufacturers of “forever chemicals” is among the first to cite new Biden administration EPA regulations that set strict limits for the...more
The Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Small Business (“Committee”) sent a February 14th letter to United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Michael S. Reagan...more
On February 8, 2024, EPA published a proposed rule that would list the following nine PFAS as hazardous constituents under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): PFOA, PFOS, PFBS, HFPO-DA (also known as GenX),...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a proposal to change the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) regulations to add nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (collectively, PFAS), their...more
Our downloadable report, Legal Insights for Manufacturing, explores how the business, legal, and regulatory framework is evolving—and will evolve—to address the large generational shifts taking place. This year, our report...more
This year, the Biden Administration has ushered in changes to enforcement guidance and policy, including criminal self-disclosures and deference to State regulators. In addition, the Administration has further bolstered its...more
EPA’s Big Plans for 2023: Top Air Rulemakings We Are Watching - An environmental lawyer walks into a cocktail party. An often-asked question is: What is happening at EPA in your world? What should we be watching that...more
Three Judges of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals have dismissed the American Chemistry Council's complaint challenging EPA's interim health advisory levels for PFAS in drinking water. The ACC's case was dismissed, not for...more
For years almost 2000 plaintiffs have been litigating in Federal Court in South Carolina against dozens of manufacturers and distributors of fire-fighting aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) that contain perfluorooctanoic acid...more
Biden administration to restore climate criteria to NEPA - The New York Times – October 6 - The Biden administration on Wednesday announced that it would restore climate change protections to the nation’s bedrock...more
State AGs File Another Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google - Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia filed the fourth antitrust lawsuit against Google since October 2020, claiming that Google’s Play store unlawfully...more
In recent years, there has been no shortage of interest and commentary dedicated to a group of chemicals known collectively as PFAS. As one example, the potential designation of certain PFAS — PFOA and PFOS (perfluorooctanoic...more
EPA and OMB issue directives and propose an initial budget for the Biden Administration’s EJ initiatives - With the Biden Administration’s appointees now in place, environmental justice (EJ) is moving to the forefront of...more
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A Note to Our Readers: Although the coronavirus and its many disruptions are dominating the news, we will continue to publish the California Environmental Law and Policy Update so long as there are newsworthy developments in...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress. The House and Senate have one week of legislative work remaining before they break for the Fourth of July recess period, and it looks to be quite busy. ...more
In January of 2018, the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (“Air Board”) published a proposed rule to establish a CO2 emissions cap and trade program in Virginia (the “Original Proposal”). The regulations set an...more