Alabama became the 36th state to allow cannabis for medical use when Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the Darren Wesley ‘Ato’ Hall Compassion Act on May 17, 2021. The act establishes a process through which applicants will...more
The United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) issued an April 13th letter addressing a request for clarification of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”)...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published its final rule regarding the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food (“Sanitary Transport Rule”). Applicable to shippers, loaders, receivers, and carriers of...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued another advisory opinion on free patient transportation (OIG Adv. Op. No. 15-13, dated October 21, 2015). In the opinion, the OIG addresses whether providing patients a...more
On July 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise emissions budgets for several states under the agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR or the...more
The D.C. Circuit, by majority decision, upheld MATS, which requires coal- and oil-fired power plants to reduce emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, and other air pollutants. When the EPA adopted MATS in 2011, it did not...more
The Supreme Court handed the Obama administration a victory on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, when it injected new life into an Environmental Protection Agency rule targeting air pollution that drifts across state borders....more
One of the long-running questions in the administration of the Clean Air Act is the extent to which EPA can implement the Act through market-based mechanisms, such as cap-and-trade programs. Yesterday, the Supreme Court...more
Two years ago, we reported that the D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) second attempt at regulation of air pollution crossing state borders. Facing two strikes, EPA swung for...more
The Supreme Court today reversed the D.C. Circuit and affirmed EPA’s Transport Rule (known more formally as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule). Whatever the hopes and dreams of the upwind states and the industry opponents,...more
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule, otherwise known as CSAPR or the “Transport Rule,” reversing a lower court decision that had vacated that rule. The...more
The U.S. Supreme Court will give the Environmental Protection Agency another chance to justify its rule targeting interstate air pollution. On June 24, 2013, the Court agreed to take up this issue by reviewing a case from the...more