[Podcast] Catching Up on Canadian Environmental Regulation
The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Recent Actions on Ag Biotech by EPA’s Emerging Technologies Branch
Federal wildlife officials on Monday denied listing the Western Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act....more
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights has called for input on a thematic report on “forever chemicals (PFAS) and human rights.” According to the UN, the report will identify how the adverse...more
The Environmental Integrity Project (“EIP”) published a document titled: State of Decline: Cuts to State Pollution Control Agencies Compound Damage from the Dismantling of EPA (“Report”)....more
Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Friends of Hurricane Creek (collectively, “Friends”) entered into a November 19th Order on Consent Decree (“CD”) with the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
The Environmental Defense Fund and eleven other environmental organizations filed December 1st Comments addressing an October 2nd Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) issued by EPA styled: Visibility Protection:...more
The New Jersey Attorney General and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the Superior Court of New Jersey entered into a Consent Judgment (“CJ”) with seven defendants pursuant to the New Jersey Spill...more
The American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) issued a document titled: Corrosion Control Implementation Framework (“Framework”). ...more
A recent Opinion released by Phillip D. Roos, the Director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), decided a key issue in the ongoing legal battle regarding the Concentrated Animal Feeding...more
The Federal Court (Court) recently set aside the direction of an Environment and Climate Change Canada inspector (Inspector) issued pursuant to the Fisheries Act (Direction). The Direction named the company as well as the...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a Proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Buffalo River Truss LLC (“BRT”) addressing an alleged violation of the Tennessee...more
Ecologists often decry a problem known as “shifting baselines.” The kelp forests, whales and sea otters around Monterey Bay we witness today are extraordinary. But if you asked someone who had lived in the area 40 years...more
The United States Department of Justice and Wynja Feedlot, Inc. (“WF”) entered into a November 17th Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The Consent Decree was filed in the United States...more
This month, the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana sent letters to various environmental groups expressing “collective concern” about potentially anti-competitive recycling practices....more
Six environmental organizations submitted November 7th comments to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) on the State’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for the Second Planning Period....more
Updating our earlier post from March 2025, Maine has completed a regulatory process and has adopted updates to its PFAS in products rules to identify two approved Currently Unavoidable Use (CUU) exemptions from the state’s...more
In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS, the EPA outlines its plans for PFAS rules and states continue advancing PFAS...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued on September 2nd a Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Southern Ionics Inc. (“SII”) addressing alleged violations of an Air...more
Seven states have now enacted Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws focused primarily on packaging: California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington. So far, five of those states have...more
On October 6, 2025, Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved Montana's repeal of its numeric water quality standards for nutrients and reinforced that narrative water quality standards are an appropriate...more
On September 29, 2025, the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought by Texas farmers, multi-state environmental organizations, and Johnson County, Texas that alleged the United States...more
The United States District for the District of Columbia (“Court”) addressed in a September 29th Memorandum Opinion and Order (“Memorandum”) an action against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), and...more
Key Takeaways What Happened? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) recently overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2023 final rule rescinding the affirmative...more
As reported in our May 29, 2025, memorandum, on May 22, 2025, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held a public hearing on its proposed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule. Administrative Law...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and PETRO 49, INC. (“Petro”) entered into a September 8th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Spill Prevention Control and...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an August 30th news release announcing a final action to impose no additional Clean Water Act wastewater discharge regulations on meat and poultry processing...more