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Key Recent Developments In Environmental Justice Litigation

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Louisiana remains at the forefront of environmental justice activity. In just four days from January 19 to January 23, 2024, two courts in Louisiana offered interpretations to environmental justice efforts in the State of...more

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US EPA’s Environmental Justice Objectives on Trial

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As the objectives gain traction, they are meeting state resistance in court. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) strategic plan for 2022–26, released in March 2022, added a new foundational principle to the...more

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Will Environmental Justice Programs Be Affected by SCOTUS’s Affirmative Action Decisions?

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In the United States, environmental and public health measures often correlate to variables like education, income, and a community’s racial makeup. In the five decades since Congress began to create comprehensive...more

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Environmental Justice 2022 Year-End Review

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Environmental Justice (“EJ”) continued to prove a major focus of the Biden administration in 2022. With wide-ranging initiatives across several federal agencies, the administration worked to strengthen enforcement, release...more

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Environmental Justice Update: Chicago Forcing Facility Relocation to Environmental Justice Area Puts Federal HUD Funding at Issue

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Environmental justice (EJ) issues continue to be at the forefront of the Biden Administration’s regulatory agenda, with promises to deploy non-environmental statutes - most notably, federal civil rights laws - to address...more

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Environmental Justice/Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: Environmental Organizations Submit Petition to U.S. Environmental...

Earthjustice and 11 other environmental organizations submitted a document to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on June 28th titled: Petition for Action Regarding Deficiencies...more

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Refrigerant Recovery Management Program/Air Enforcement: U.S. Department of Justice and Scrap Recycling Company Enter into Consent...

The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) on behalf of the United States with Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. (“Schnitzer”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and...more

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Environmental Justice 101: Leveling the Playing Field in the Permitting Process

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The concept of "environmental justice" (or "EJ" among environmental practitioners) is not new.  It developed in response to the inordinate number of industrial facilities and contaminated sites located near...more

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Refrigerant Recovery/Air Enforcement: U.S. Department of Justice Enters into Consent Decree with Oklahoma/Texas Scrap Recycling...

The United States Department of Justice and the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced in a January 7th news release that they entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) with Derichebourg Recycling USA Inc....more

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Title VI Civil Rights Complaint/Port Arthur, Texas, Petroleum Coke Production Facility: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) accepted pursuant to an October 15th letter an Administrative Complaint filed against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) by Lone Star Legal Aid...more

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EPA Proposes Rule to Implement AIM Act’s HFC Phasedown

Businesses are encouraged to provide input on EPA’s HFC allowance allocation process during the forthcoming public comment period. To achieve the objectives of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act (AIM), which...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Ninth Circuit Issues Decision in Civil Rights Case in Review of California SIP

On May 8, 2015, in El Comite Para El Bienestar De Earlimart v. EPA, a Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a petition for review filed by several groups that the court describes as “community...more

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