Environmental Trends

Topics discussed this week include:

• Petitioners ask Supreme Court to weigh in on whether Clean Water Act regulates discharges through groundwater to waters of the United States
• EPA OECA issues guidance document on National Compliance Initiatives
• DOI seeks comment on its NRD regulations
• Eight states sue DOI, its Principal Deputy Solicitor, and FWS over MBTA guidance

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Topics discussed this week include:

• Federal agencies reopen comment on Obama administration auto fuel efficiency standards.
• Environmental groups file legal challenges to TSCA rules.
• Tenth Circuit vacates EPA denial of small-refinery renewable fuels exemption.
• EPA begins revisions to power plant wastewater rules.
• DC Circuit rules EPA’s hydrofluorocarbon rule exceeds statutory authority.

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