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Discharge of Pollutants Compliance Clean Air Act

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

EPA Issues New Rules Regarding Response and Risk Management Plans

The Accidental Chemical Release Rules have an effective date of May 10, 2024, and includes a number of situations requiring compliance, generally by May 10, 2027. The new Clean Water Act facility response plan...more

Williams Mullen

Strange But True: Recent EPA and State Actions Show Breadth of Environmental Enforcement

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A trilogy of recent federal and state enforcement actions show just how far agencies will go to enforce environmental regulations. Now may be a good time for a compliance audit....more

Holland & Knight LLP

CPP Sets First National Standards Limiting Power Plants' Carbon Pollution

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President Obama unveiled the final Clean Power Plan (CPP) rule on Aug. 3, 2015, which sets forth a historic and ambitious regulation for cutting greenhouse-gas pollution. The CPP establishes the first-ever national standards...more

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Supreme Court Rejects EPA Mercury Emissions Rule

On June 29, 2015, the Supreme Court cast serious doubt upon the future of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (“MATS”) by finding that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) failed to adequately consider the costs of...more

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