Environmental Trends

Topics discussed this week include:

• Courts dismiss challenges to advisory panel membership policy.
• Groups sue EPA for overdue spill regulations.
• Environmental groups threaten suit over oil dispersant guidelines.
• Court: Clean Air Act does not preempt odor nuisance claims.
• Court holds that long-defunct companies may still face CERCLA liability.
• New York close to banning plastic bags.
• Environmental groups sue Iowa, asserting constitutional right to clean water.
• Court strikes down Arctic drilling executive order.
• Court rejects foreign policy objection to denial of Clean Water Act certificate.

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Topics discussed this week include

• EPA final rule on monitoring NOx at power plants takes effect
• EPA and Army Corps withdraw appeals on WOTUS Delay Rule
• D.C. Circuit rejects NEPA analysis for Dominion Energy
• Federal court says it has authority to impose injunctive relief for Ameren’s failure to obtain a required permit at its Rush Island facility

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Topics discussed this week include:

• EPA issues PFAS action plan.
• Supreme Court to hear CWA case on discharges through groundwater to waters of the United States.
• District court dismisses lawsuit by environmental group and youth alleging that federal government violated their constitutional rights and public trust doctrine through Trump-era climate change policies.

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Topics discussed this week include:

• Federal judicial interpretation of the Clean Water Act remains split
• Federal court holds states violated Clean Water Act for dam decommissioning
• Suit challenging President Trump’s 2-for-1 executive order survives motion to dismiss
• Fiat Chrysler enters Clean Air Act consent decree
• Audi engineers face mobile source “defeat device” criminal indictment
• Federal court vacates New York regulator’s denial of water quality certificate for natural gas pipeline
• Green New Deal nonbinding resolution proposed in Congress

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Topics discussed this week include:

• NRDC sues EPA over New Source Review permitting program.
• District court stays National Marine Fisheries Service case due to government shutdown.
• Environmental group sues to force EPA to ban methylene chloride under TSCA.

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Topics discussed this week include:

• EPA and Corps propose new definition of Waters of the United States.
• EPA proposes to eliminate carbon capture requirements for coal plants.
• EPA releases draft rule rescinding power plant mercury rule.
• EPA issues final pharmaceutical waste rule.
• Senate confirms key environmental posts.
• Shutdown slows EPA and Justice Department.
• Northeastern states unveil “cap and invest” greenhouse gas program.
• New York proposes fluorinated chemical drinking water standards.
• California splits with Interior over Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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