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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

Law Columbia

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Biden Administration Accelerates Federal Regulation of PFAS

Ohio Environmental Law

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act added reporting requirements of PFAS releases for certain industries. EPA intends to propose a rulemaking in 2022 to categorize the PFAS on the TRI list as “Chemicals. Evaluate whether PFAS Compounds should be Designated “Hazardous Air Pollutants” under the Clean Air Act.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. reports due July 1, 2022). The House bill ( H.R. The preliminary dataset is available here. N: See 85 Fed. 45109 (July 27, 2020).]]

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Lessons from the Pandemic About Making Decisions Without Statutes

Acoel

Posted on January 11, 2022 by David G. 9, 2022) at SR-7. Times No. 9, 2022) at SR-7. In my January 2021 column for the Legal Intelligencer ’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly I suggested the opposite, or maybe an inside-out version of the same thing: “[t]he governmental response to the viral pandemic is. Mandelbaum.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

The risk evaluation’s conclusions that consumer uses do not present an unreasonable risk could preempt state-level restrictions on 1,4-dioxane in personal care, cosmetic, and cleaning products such as restrictions enacted by New York in 2019.[[N:N.Y. Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]].

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The Chemical Compound—February 2021

Arnold Porter

In his Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis signed on January 20, President Biden identified this rule as one EPA must review and, "as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," consider proposing its suspension, revision, or rescission.[[N: million each year.

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Special Policy News #7: The Transition

ESA

Mallory is an environmental attorney who worked in President Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality and most recently for the Southern Environmental Law Center. Upcoming hearings: Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior – House Appropriations Committee – April 20. 1072 & H.R.

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