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Environmental Justice Emerges as EPA and Virginia Priority

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Recent guidance issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) evidences EPA’s intention to better incorporate Environmental Justice (“EJ”) considerations into program administration and enforcement. ...more

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ASTM Proposes Changes to Phase I ESA Standard (E1527)

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Every eight years, ASTM International's standard-setting committees are required to reevaluate existing ASTM standards. The ASTM E1527-13 Standard Practice on Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) is required to be...more

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Environmental Justice in the Biden Administration: Early Actions Draw First Bold Lines

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This Holland & Knight alert is the first of several status updates on environmental justice (EJ) in the Biden Administration. It identifies early actions of the administration that are not only significant in their own right...more

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Assessing Climate Cost in Policy Decisions

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Right out of the box, the Biden Administration took a decisive stance on the importance of climate costs in agency decision making, returning to Obama-era metrics and values. On his first day in office, President Biden issued...more

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Climate, NEPA, Environmental Justice Dominate Hearing for EPA, CEQ Nominees

During yesterday’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, President Biden’s nominees for Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Brenda Mallory, and for Deputy Administrator the...more

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Less Frost, and More Cost: Biden Revives Interagency Working Group to Publish Updated Social Costs of Carbon and Other Greenhouse...

Key Points - President Biden’s Day One Executive Order on climate action reconvenes an interagency working group to establish interim and final social costs of three GHGs: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. -...more

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Reclaiming a Federal Lead on Social Cost of Carbon

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The social cost of carbon (SCC) has a checkered regulatory history spanning nearly 40 years, but it now has been thrust back onto the federal stage, front and center. Among President Joe Biden's first acts in office was a...more

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Harmful Algal Blooms: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Announces Management Plan

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) published a document titled: Harmful Algal Bloom Management Plan (“Plan”) - The Plan was developed by the Arkansas Harmful...more

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Implementation of White House Executive Orders Addressing Guidance: EPA forms Workgroups

The White House recently issued two Executive Orders (“EOs”) focusing on the use of guidance by federal agencies in the context of informing enforcement actions and restricting the use and issuance of new guidance. (See...more

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Trump Order Ushers in the Future of US Energy and Environmental Regulation

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On March 28, President Trump launched a sweeping overhaul of US energy and environmental policy. The presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth (Order) repeals several policies of the...more

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Administration’s Biotechnology Working Group Updates Coordinated Framework & Unveils National Strategy

After launching with an ambitious agenda fourteen months ago, last Friday the Obama Administration announced that its Biotechnology Working Group had completed its two main tasks. The Working Group has proposed an Update to...more

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Biotechnology: White House Directs EPA, FDA, and USDA to Update the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology

With little fanfare or advanced notice to the general public, on July 2, 2015, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the U.S. Trade Representative, and the...more

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