29
July
2019
Sidley Environmental Trends
Topics discussed this week include:
- Interest groups kick off challenges to EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule
- D.C. Circuit upholds EPA decision not to impose new financial assurance requirements on hardrock mining operators
- Fourth Circuit vacates Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit
- EPA declines to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos
- Maryland high court holds that state agency supersedes county zoning boards on solar zoning
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17
July
2019
Sidley Environmental Trends
Topics discussed this week include:
- EPA proposes to decline to set CERCLA financial assurance rule for electric power industry.
- D.C. Circuit upholds RCRA transfer-based exclusion.
- EPA proposes renewable volume obligations for 2020.
- EPA issues final enforcement policy on coordination with and delegation to states.
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03
July
2019
Sidley Environmental Trends
Topics discussed this week:
- EPA finalizes Clean Power Plan repeal and promulgates Affordable Clean Energy rule
- U.S. Senate passes defense bill with PFAS requirements
- Council on Environmental Quality issues draft guidance on considering GHGs in environmental impact reviews
- Solicitor General asks for Supreme Court review of Atlantic Coast Pipeline decision
- EPA air chief steps down
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