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A decade of unraveling the effects of regulation on water innovation 

Legal Planet

In a recent post, my colleagues and I reported on our most recent research output in a long series of projects examining the effect of regulation on water innovation. Our team designed parallel national surveys to examine the views of regulators and wastewater utility managers about this nexus.

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Back to the Future: Waters of United States Reverts to Pre-2015 Definition

Environment Next

The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act. The court left open for further briefing and argument whether the 2019 regulatory action repealing the 2015 rule is valid. Federal agencies later defined “waters of the United States” by regulation.

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It’s Time to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

Legal Planet

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2015 SB350. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act).

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New Study Links Glyphosate to Leukemia, Pressuring Canada’s Pesticide Regulator to Review Approvals

Enviromental Defense

This finding comes as environmental and food safety groups take Canada’s pesticide regulator to court to challenge the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)’s decisions on glyphosate product renewals, and at a time of accusations of regulatory capture of the regulator.

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DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24

PA Environment Daily

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. In 2015, the Oil and Gas Program had an authorized complement of 226 positions. Read more here.

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EPA to Regulate Hazardous Air Pollutants From Power Plants Under Michigan Factors

MGKF Law

EPA’s latest rulemaking regulating Hazardous Air Pollutant (“HAP”) emissions from coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (“EGUs”) is unlikely to be an exception. 743 (2015). 13956 (Mar. EPA, 576 U.S. at 13957; see also 85 Fed.