K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part III
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care
Is Your Health Care Facility Prepared for an Active Shooter?
Meet Your Deadlines: West Virginia AST Act Challenges
The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a June 3rd interpretive letter the application of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) applicable to the display of the...more
On October 1, 2019, the California Office of State Fire Marshall (“OSFM”) published additional changes to its proposed regulations implementing Best Available Technology (“BAT”) requirements for hazardous liquid pipelines....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Birds Eye Foods, LLC (“Birds Eye”) entered into a December 13th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Comprehensive...more
Senate Money Panel Passes Budget Bill - On a vote of 7-0, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a $5.8 billion budget on Friday that closes a $72 million projected gap between revenues and expenditures in the 2018...more
Chemical manufacturers and petroleum refiners are closely tracking the latest activities of a high-level agency working group formed pursuant to President Obama’s Executive Order (13,650) responding to the West, Texas,...more
The U.S. Senate passed S. 2276, the Securing America's Future Energy: Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act (SAFE PIPES Act) on March 3, 2016. The SAFE PIPES Act would reauthorize the...more
Even before the June 6, 2014 effective date of the Aboveground Storage Tank Act (the “AST Act” or “Act”), W. Va. Code §§ 22-30-1 et seq., representatives of the industries most impacted by the expansive and detailed AST Act...more
On September 25, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that will provide California’s emergency responders with more information about trains carrying crude oil and require railroad companies to provide...more