On July 1, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed Howard County, Maryland’s, petition to review the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval (FAA) of construction at Baltimore-Washington […]
On July 6, 2020, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the easement that had been granted to the Dakota Access Pipeline […]
On June 26, 2020, a federal district court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not required to perform a risk assessment every time it revises its technology-based […]
On June 25, 2020, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation, which CARB describes as a “first-in-the-world rule.” Starting in 2024, the regulation requires […]
On June 19, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final risk evaluation conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for methylene chloride. For its evaluation, EPA […]
On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Federal Register notice granting petitions to add n-propyl bromide, commonly known as 1-bromopropane (1-BP), to the Clean Air […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has stayed a lawsuit, Sierra Club v. EPA, brought by a coalition of environmental groups concerning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s […]
On June 10, 2020, three environmental groups sent a notice of intent to sue multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The notice claims that EPA failed […]
On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule for calculating costs and benefits from Clean Air Act rulemakings. The proposal would require EPA to […]
On June 1, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection promulgated water quality standards for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) at levels of 14 and 13 parts […]