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PFOA/PFOS/CERCLA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final Rule Designating as Hazardous Substances

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a prepublication version of a Final Rule that would designate two of the Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) as Comprehensive Environmental Response,...more

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Recycling Industry Yearbook: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Issues 2019 Edition

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (“ISRI”) issued its 2019 Recycling Industry Yearbook (“Yearbook”). The 2019 edition is the eighth year that ISRI has published a Yearbook on this topic....more

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Amendments to the Federal District Law for Solid Waste

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On June 25, 2019 a decree amending the Federal District Law for Solid Waste (“Amendment Decree”) was published in the Official Gazette of Mexico City and entered into force on the day following its publication....more

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Solid and Hazardous Waste Judicial/Regulatory Developments (2018-2019): Arkansas Environmental Federation Presentation...

I undertook a presentation on April 17th at the Arkansas Environmental Federation Regulated Waste Seminar titled: Solid and Hazardous Waste Judicial/Regulatory Developments: 2018 – 2019 - The discussion addressed...more

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Recyclables – Changing Markets: National Waste and Recycling Association Issue Brief

The National Waste & Recycling Association (“NWRA”) issued a February 2019 Issue Brief titled: Recyclables: Changing Markets (“Issue Brief”) - A key focus of the Issue Brief is the impact of China’s establishment of a...more

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Proposed Revisions to China Solid Waste Law: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Comments

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (“ISRI”) submitted August 17th comments on China’s proposed revisions to its solid waste law (“Law”). The country is proposing to revise its Law for the stated purpose of...more

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Important Changes to EPA's RCRA Program

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made several recent changes that will affect compliance obligations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). First, EPA finalized revisions to the definition of...more

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SCOTX: Missed 30-Day Service Deadline Does Not Mandate Dismissal of Challenge to TCEQ Action

Last week, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that serving citation on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) outside a 30-day deadline set forth in the Texas Clean Air Act (“TCAA”) did not require dismissal of...more

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Hazardous Waste Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and Union County, Arkansas Chemical Manufacturing...

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and The Chemours Company FC, LLC (“Chemours”) entered into a December 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of Arkansas Pollution...more

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D.C. Circuit Court Limits EPA’s Sham Recycling Rule

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently rejected portions of an EPA rule designed to distinguish true recycling from “sham recycling” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...more

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Environmental Notes - August 2016

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Time to Pay More: EPA Increases Maximum Civil Penalties - Remember the days when the maximum civil penalty EPA could assess for a violation of environmental law was $25,000 per day? Those days disappeared 26 years ago...more

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Hazardous Waste: New Corrosivity Test Denied, But the Fight is Not Over

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EPA has tentatively denied a petition to expand the test for the hazardous waste characteristic of corrosivity to cover more wastes. In so doing, however, EPA left the door open to reconsider the decision based on public...more

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If Congress Wants to Limit EPA’s Discretion, Perhaps It Should Do a Better Job Legislating

Earlier this week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected both industry and environmental group petitions challenging EPA’s determination of what is a solid waste in the context of Clean Air Act standards for incinerators...more

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Ohio Federal Court Rules That DuPont’s Teflon Emissions Are Covered by RCRA

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Last week the Southern District of Ohio held that air emissions from DuPont’s Teflon production operations at its Washington Works Facility in West Virginia, which landed on a water supplier’s wellfield and contaminated the...more

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Reversing Course, EPA Tightens Its RCRA Hazardous Waste Recycling Rules

After years of relative easing in its interpretation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act rules that govern industrial recycling, the Environmental Protection Agency is now taking a harder line. A recently issued...more

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