The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC (“Kinder Morgan”) entered into a Settlement to address alleged air permit violations. See SA-AE-22-073. The Settlement...more
Hydrogen Rising co-hosts David Wochner, partner at K&L Gates, and Sandra Safro, Associate General Counsel at the Edison Electric Institute, speak with the co-founders of Kaizen Clean Energy, Eric Smith and Robert Meaney,...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Innospec Active Chemicals, LLC (“IAC”) entered into an August 24th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the North Carolina hazardous waste...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a flurry of Press Releases and Alerts from mid-June through the end of July warning consumers and health care professionals not to use certain alcohol-based hand sanitizers...more
The Sierra Club and several other organizations (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington...more
On January 1, 2020, the new International Maritime Organization’s regulation—dubbed “IMO 2020”—for sulfur reduction from 3.5% to 0.5% will go into effect. The regulation stipulates that oceangoing vessels must use either a...more
The Washington Department of Ecology (“WDE”) sent an October 9th letter to Cowlitz County, Washington addressing a Shoreline Conditional Use Permit (“CUP”) application to construct and operate a facility (“Facility”) to...more
As of January 1, 2020, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will begin enforcing a new regulation (IMO 2020) that caps the allowable sulfur content of all marine fuels from its current level of 3.5% m/m (mass/mass)...more
On February 14, 2019, scientists in China published an article revealing a new methodology developed to safely transform methanol into ethanol. Given methanol’s toxicity, this recently uncovered method allows for a more...more
Gas Drilling Not Damaging Forests' Waterways, State Finds - "Pennsylvania's state forests agency says it isn't finding damage to waterways amid the expansion of natural gas drilling in recent years, although it is reporting...more
State Files Motion to Dismiss Federal Lawsuit by EQT - "Lawyers representing the Secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the natural gas company EQT over a...more