[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
United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on February 4th the federal agency’s priorities under the Trump Administration....more
The Environmental Protection Information Center and Humboldt Coalition for Clean Energy (collectively, “EPIC”) filed a January 3rd Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection...more
While still a newly minted lawyer early in 1977, I had the good fortune to land a job with the then brand-new Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. This coincided with the 1976 election of Jimmy Carter as...more
Environmental and energy issues were in the headlines for much of 2023. We had several major US Supreme Court cases, Canadian wildfires that produced haze in many American cities throughout the summer, and continued attention...more
Options to cap and cut emissions from the Canadian oil and gas sector were proposed by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in July 2022. Reducing oil and gas sector emissions is necessary for Canada to achieve its...more
EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. It marks the seventh round of NOx controls for the EGU sector since 1990. The...more
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement ("TCA"), which was finalized on December 24, 2020, resets the European Union/United Kingdom relationship following the UK's departure from the EU. In place of the UK's participation in the...more
The 2019-2020 California Legislative Session has reached its first deadline. February 22, 2019 marked the deadline by which bills could be introduced for the first half of the Legislative Session. Lawmakers will begin Spring...more
The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association (“AAEA”) will hold its 7th Annual Meeting & Policy Conference “emPOWERing Arkansas” (“Conference”) on October 9th. The Conference will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Heifer...more
Throughout Connecticut’s legislative session, these updates highlight developments concerning environmental law and policy. The author prepares updates as Legislative Liaison of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Environmental...more
Let’s take a look at what President Trump has done for the oil industry in his first year (This is not about decorum, dossiers, tweets, or Oprah’s inauguration.) As in the past I refer to sources whose opinions and insights...more
Following the recent UK referendum result, attention is now turning to the legal implications for specific policy areas. While the overwhelming majority of the UK’s environmental legislation is derived from EU...more
Environmental and Policy Focus - Environmental groups fight Southern California tar sands oil project: Courthouse News Service - Oct 13: Kern County illegally approved expansion of a local refinery that will let it...more
In their search for Utopia, some opponents of oil and gas drilling ignore innovation … What’s harmful now will forever be that way....more
This is a revised alert reflecting updated information in a July 19 National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) media release, which clarified prior NETL statements on the hydraulic fracturing study contained in earlier...more