[Webinar] Growing Greener: Navigating Environmental Laws in the Cannabis Industry
A broad range of reactions – from celebratory to alarmist – describe the workforce reductions and regulatory rollbacks proposed or currently underway at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Notable concerns...more
President Trump’s January 31, 2025, executive order (EO), Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) February 25 interim final rule removing CEQ regulations...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects companies to self-police their environmental compliance efforts. While the EPA regularly conducts inspections focused on assessing environmental compliance, it also...more
States across the country have been regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) over the last few years. Recent actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) underscores that point:...more
The public’s attention to environmental justice has refocused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on cumulative assessment of risk and impacts. Concordantly, EPA recently finalized its Fiscal Year 2022–2026...more
I. Overview of Federal Regulatory Developments Related to PFAS - Federal government activities with respect to regulation of PFAS in 2021, which will likely carry forward through 2024 include the following: ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a December 14th Federal Register Notice granted a petition by Sandvik Special Metals (“SSM”) to exclude or delist up to 1,500 cubic yards of F006 wastewater...more
TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - EPA Issues Final TSCA Fees Rule: On October 17, 2018, EPA issued a final fees rule under TSCA. 83 Fed. Reg. 52694. The final rule largely tracks the proposed rule....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a September 12th Federal Register notice granting a petition to exclude (“Delist”) hazardous waste generated by a particular facility from the Resource...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published an August 22nd Federal Register Act notice granting a petition to exclude (“delist”) hazardous waste generated by a particular facility from the Resource...more
With all of the regulatory obligations that hospitals and other healthcare facilities need to comply with, it might be easy to overlook an environmental law that can lead to significant trouble. Hospitals may find themselves...more
Join the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health on June 27, 2017, for a day-long conference exploring the federal government’s implementation of the...more