Environmental Trends

Topics discussed this week include:

• Fishermen’s trade association sues energy companies for alleged climate-change-related harms
• EPA releases draft toxicology assessments for two PFAS compounds
• EPA announces Cleaner Trucks Initiative
• EPA finalizes amendments to the petroleum refinery sector MACT 1, MACT 2 and NSPS regulations
• EPA proposes rule intended to clarify reporting requirements under CERCLA and EPCRA associated with air emissions from animal waste at farms

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Topics discussed this week include:

• Environmental Protection Agency set to reinstitute 2009 definition of “project aggregation” for New Source Review permitting program
• Federal appeals court stays climate change litigation trial
• Environmental Protection Agency renews dicamba registration for two years
• Environmental Protection Agency issues new guidance outlining deference to states and tribes
• Mott’s sued over trace amounts of synthetic pesticide found in “natural” applesauce

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Topics discussed this week include:

• Supreme Court stays youths’ climate change suit pending review.
• EPA withdraws proposed uranium mining regulations.
• Environmental groups request Sixth Circuit reconsider Clean Water Act coal ash pond ruling.
• EPA Environmental Appeals Board rejects use of battery storage as BACT.

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Topics discussed this week include

• Fifth Circuit allows possibility of injunctive relief for time-barred NSR claims.
• Supreme Court denies cert. for two environmental cases.
• Environmental groups challenge Oklahoma coal ash permitting scheme.
• FERC-approved pipelines stopped as Commission nominee gets hearing.
• PHMSA rescinds electronic braking rule for crude oil trains.

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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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