News & Analysis as of

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Proposed Regulation Comment Period

Holland & Knight LLP

Breaking Down the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen PTC Proposed Regulations

Holland & Knight LLP on

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS on Dec. 22, 2023, released proposed regulations regarding the production tax credit (PTC) for hydrogen under Section 45V of the Internal Revenue Code, as enacted by the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

EPA Publishes Semiannual Agenda Previewing PFAS-Related Agency Actions

Holland & Knight LLP on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 27, 2023, published its Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, which is intended to update the public about the agency's plan to review, propose and issue regulations over the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The D.C. Circuit Overrules EPA on Regulating Perchlorate

Holland & Knight LLP on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has the latest word in the long-running saga concerning regulation of the contaminant perchlorate in its decision dated May 9, 2023, when it ruled the U.S....more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

EPA Proposes New Limitations on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Electric Generating Units

On May 11, 2023, USEPA announced proposed rules to further limit the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and other electric generating units (EGUs). Industry trade associations assert that these regulations are...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

5 Things to Know About EPA’s Proposed Power Plant CO2 Emissions Rule

Latham & Watkins LLP on

EPA’s long-awaited proposal would set aggressive emission reduction targets with many different approaches and timelines to achieve them. On May 11, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its...more

Verrill

PFAS Regulatory Update: Dates You Need to Know

Verrill on

Public Comment on the Federal Proposed Drinking Water Standards for Six PFAS Compounds - On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), published in the Federal Register its proposed national drinking...more

Holland & Knight LLP

EPA Publishes Proposed PFAS Drinking Water Regulation

Holland & Knight LLP on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 29, 2023, published in the Federal Register its long-awaited proposal to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

EPA proposes to regulate PFAS in drinking water

Bricker Graydon LLP on

On March 14, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed its long-awaited proposal to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Safe Drinking Water Act through issuance of a...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposes New Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Six Forever Chemicals

Regulation Would Apply to PFOA, PFOS, GenX, PFBS, PFHxS, and PFNA - On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new primary drinking water regulations for six of the most common per- and...more

Willcox & Savage

EPA’s Proposed Requirements for “Non-Intentional” Impurities in Vermiculite and Talc

Willcox & Savage on

Companies manufacturing, importing, or processing vermiculite or talc should take note of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recently proposed reporting and recordkeeping requirements for asbestos under the Toxic...more

BCLP

EPA Proposes New PFAS Requirements Under TSCA

BCLP on

The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has announced it is taking three actions with respect to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”): (1) proposing a rule that is...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

EPA’s proposal to rescind GHG and VOC standards 

On August 28, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rulemaking that would remove certain natural gas and oil storage and transmission facilities from existing air emissions standards governing...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

EPA Proposed Regulations Aim to Further Clarify CWA Section 401 Certification Reviews

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

On August 8, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule to revise its regulations (40 C.F.R. Part 121) implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. § 1341. The proposed...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

EPA Proposes to Update Clean Water Act Section 401 Regulations

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

On August 9, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to update its regulations implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).  Section 401 allow state and tribal regulators to “veto” a federal permit...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

EPA Issues Proposed Rule Updating Regulations on CWA Water Quality Certifications

Pierce Atwood LLP on

On August 8, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule to update regulations implementing Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The rule was proposed in response to President Trump’s...more

Jones Day

Proposed Waters of the United States Rule Narrows Federal Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

Jones Day on

February 2019 In Short The Situation: The definition of "waters of the United States" in the Clean Water Act ("CWA") circumscribes the jurisdictional authority of the federal government under the Act. This impacts not just...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Proposed Dicamba Regulations: Arkansas State Plant Board Announces Public Comment Period/Public Hearing

Yesterday the Arkansas Agriculture Department’s Arkansas State Plant Board gave public notice of a 30-day public comment period and a February 20, 2019, public hearing for proposed regulations authorizing the over-the-top use...more

Perkins Coie

Agencies Release Proposed Rule to Limit Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

Perkins Coie on

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers announced a proposed rule to redefine the term “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act on December 11, 2018. The proposed rule, which awaits...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

California DPR Proposes Rule to Designate Chlorpyrifos as a Toxic Air Contaminant

On September 19, 2018, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) proposed a regulation to designate chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant (TAC). DPR states that this proposal is being presented “after an...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

EPA Proposes Replacement to Clean Power Plan

Womble Bond Dickinson on

Earlier this week, on August 21, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed a rule pursuant to Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) intended to replace the embattled Clean Power Plan (“CPP”)...more

Stoel Rives LLP

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposes to Rescind Risk Management Plan Regulations

Stoel Rives LLP on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), has authority under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) to require facilities that handle hazardous chemicals to develop accident prevention and emergency response...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Releases Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science Proposed Rule

On April 30, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" (Science Rule) that EPA states is intended to “strengthen the transparency of EPA regulatory...more

BCLP

Lights Out For The Clean Power Plan

BCLP on

On October 10, 2017, EPA Administrator Pruitt signed a Proposed Rule to repeal the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan—officially titled the Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric...more

Stoel Rives LLP

North Dakota’s UIC Class VI Primacy Wait is Almost Over

Stoel Rives LLP on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to approve North Dakota’s application for primary enforcement authority over the underground injection of CO2 for geologic sequestration in that state. Nearly four...more

Williams Mullen

Court to Consider EPA Rule Eliminating Exemption for Excess Emissions During SSM

Williams Mullen on

A 2015 EPA rulemaking required 36 states to revise their State Implementation Plans (“SIPs”) to eliminate provisions exempting air emission exceedances during periods of startup, shutdown, or malfunction (the “SSM SIP Call...more

42 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide