12/14/2021 5:24:33 PM California proposes further modifications to its “Short-Form” Proposition 65 warnings By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll As we reported this past year, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) seeks to significantly amend the...
12/14/2021 9:57:42 AM New rules to facilitate intra-EU waste shipments to promote circular economy and tackle the export of illegal waste and waste challenges to third countries By Adam Hedley Jennifer Travers Amber Davies Following the European Commission review of the Waste Shipments Regulation ((EC) No 1013/2006) (WSR) (see our earlier post) the...
12/13/2021 8:52:13 PM EPA issues proposal to reduce GHGs and VOCs from new and existing oil and natural gas sources By Megan Haines Keturah Brown In response to President Biden’s Executive Order entitled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle...
12/3/2021 8:52:35 PM Update on OSHA vaccine ETS litigation: Challengers seek hearing en banc as government moves to dissolve stay By Emily Harbison Ben Patton Jessyka Linton After the Sixth Circuit was selected via a lottery in November to hear the consolidated challenges made against the recent OSHA emergency...
12/1/2021 8:39:24 PM The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pauses certain Section 404 nationwide permits By Megan Haines Randa Lewis On November 4, 2021, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) announced that it is pausing all requests for coverage under 12 nationwide...
11/25/2021 3:06:19 PM UK product safety regime: OPSS publishes its call for evidence response By Adam Hedley Amber Davies In March 2021, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (“OPSS”) published a call for evidence seeking views on possible changes to...
11/16/2021 6:45:40 PM Post-COP26: A follow-up briefing on key business issues By Adam Hedley Jennifer Smokelin Prior to COP26, we published an article that identified several issues being discussed at COP26 that could be of critical importance to...
11/4/2021 9:19:10 PM OSHA’s vaccine ETS has arrived for large private employers By Ben Patton Mary Balaster Jessyka Linton On October 21, 2021, we published an article called “Waiting for OSHA: pending vaccine ETS and increased enforcement.” In the article, we...
10/28/2021 7:50:38 PM What does success look like at COP26? By Claude Brown As with any multinational showcase meeting, delegates at each COP (and especially its host) want the meeting to be seen as a success. As...
10/21/2021 7:22:02 PM Waiting for OSHA: pending vaccine ETS and increased enforcement By Ben Patton Mary Balaster Jessyka Linton Since President Joe Biden issued his “Path Out of the Pandemic” memorandum and Executive Order 14042 on September 9, 2021, employers have...
10/21/2021 2:39:58 PM COP26 – The benchmarks for its success or failure By Adam Hedley Jennifer Smokelin The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992. More than 200...
10/21/2021 2:16:56 PM U.S. EPA releases Roadmap to address PFAS contamination By Todd Maiden Jennifer Smokelin Mary Balaster Casey Snyder +1 more... Show less On October 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) Strategic...
10/20/2021 9:17:47 AM UK plan for Waste Shipments updated By Adam Hedley Jennifer Travers The UK plan for shipments of waste (the Plan) has been amended, with the key update being to emphasise that interim disposal operations...
10/19/2021 12:00:24 PM UK plans carbon border adjustment mechanism By Adam Hedley Jennifer Travers Amber Davies Last month, the Environmental Audit Committee (‘EAC’) launched an inquiry into a potential future carbon border adjustment mechanism...
10/18/2021 1:45:15 PM EU proposal to amend the Radio Equipment Directive to require single mobile chargers By Adam Hedley Oliver Rieche On 23 September, the European Commission took a step towards consumers’ convenience and minimising the environmental footprint associated...
10/8/2021 8:06:39 PM American Bar Association article on U.S. Climate Litigation Trends – 2021 update By Jennifer Smokelin Casey Snyder In an article by Casey J. Snyder, Associate at Reed Smith, published by the American Bar Association, we highlighted key U.S. climate...