8/29/2024 4:33:51 PM Litigation Over RMP Rule Paused While EPA Evaluates Petition for Reconsideration By Ben Patton Mary Balaster A.J. Wissinger Sara Eddy +1 more... Show less On July 30, 2024, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily halted litigation over the U.S....
6/18/2024 4:24:33 PM OEHHA Moves Forward with Changes to Proposition 65 Short-Form Warning Requirements By Todd Maiden Sara Eddy On June 13, 2024, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) opened a 15 day public comment period (expiring...
6/10/2024 5:21:21 PM The Biden Administration and U.S. Agencies Publish a Joint Policy Statement and Principles on Voluntary Carbon Markets By Todd Maiden Jennifer Smokelin A.J. Wissinger Clirae Bourke +1 more... Show less Action On May 28, 2024, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Agriculture, Energy, and White House representatives published a joint Policy...
1/4/2024 6:14:48 PM Washington Adopts New Refinery Process Safety Management (PSM) Rule By Ben Patton Mary Balaster A.J. Wissinger Sara Eddy +1 more... Show less The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) adopted CR-103, creating a new Part B to chapter 296-67 WAC, on December 27,...
6/30/2023 3:17:08 PM Washington’s New PSM Requirements for Refiners By Ben Patton Mary Balaster Jon T. Griffith The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) issued a proposed rule updating process safety management (PSM) standards...
5/26/2023 4:26:43 PM EPA powers curtailed – the Clean Water Act’s new limited scope By Megan Haines Todd Maiden Ben Patton Jennifer Smokelin Peter Trimarchi Sara Eddy +3 more... Show less On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision ending a nearly 16-year battle over the Clean Water Act’s (CWA)...
8/24/2022 9:53:02 PM Environmental aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 By Megan Haines Ben Patton Todd Maiden Peter Trimarchi Jennifer Smokelin Casey Snyder +3 more... Show less Introduction President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) into law on August 16, 2022. The Act represents an...
8/23/2022 1:36:49 PM EPA Proposes Expansive Changes to EPA RMP Rule By Ben Patton Mary Balaster A.J. Wissinger As anticipated, on Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed Risk Management Program (RMP) Safer...
3/16/2022 4:56:08 PM EU public consultation on Commission’s review of the RoHS Directive By Adam Hedley Jake Williams William Rees The European Commission is currently seeking public comment as part of its review of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in...
2/7/2022 6:03:35 PM EPA PFAS testing targeted industry and will now look to public water systems By Jennifer Smokelin Randa Lewis During 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) collected discharge data for PFAS as part of its Multi-Industry PFAS Study. ...
1/28/2022 3:52:25 PM EU banking watchdog publishes rules on banks reporting climate-risk data By Adam Hedley Jake Williams Amber Davies The European Banking Authority (“EBA”) recently published final rules for lenders on how they must publish data on environmental, social...
1/6/2022 3:14:01 PM California extends comment period for proposed modifications to Proposition 65 warnings By Todd Maiden Eric Schmoll California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has extended the public comment period for the proposed amendments...
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...
12/1/2021 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...
11/4/2021 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...
10/21/2021 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...