Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Deparment of Environmental Quality analysis for $9.4B Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4 Formosa facility's permits included 'obsolete data,' lawsuit claims David J.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. The EPA under both the George W.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. Trump , No.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS. The House bill ( H.R.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals directed the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of chlorpyrifos in instances where it harms workers and children. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act. Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. The company argued that the D.C.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

But in this blog post, I unpack an aspect of the decision where I think it was more of a mixed bag: the court’s treatment of the international air pollution provision of the Clean Air Act, Section 115. Connecticut ( AEP ), the Clean Air Act has displaced federal common law related to domestic GHG emissions.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency on January 19, 2021, Renewable Fuels Association moved to voluntarily dismiss its petitions for review challenging the exemptions in the Tenth Circuit and the D.C. The conservation groups asserted claims under NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Murray Energy Sought Supreme Court Review of Fourth Circuit’s Dismissal of Clean Air Act Jobs Study Case. Foster , No. 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The Clean Air Act provision at issue authorizes small refineries to petition EPA “for an extension of the exemption … for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship.” Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash. June 29, 2021).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Legislative Developments. Regulatory Developments. N:United States v.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Chao , No.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Ruling allows the EPA to protect Bristol Bay. The Biden administration seeks to replace the Trump regulations. New court ruling clears path for Bristol Bay Clean Water Act protections – National Fisherman.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the months since our 2020 update on federal actions affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued to take action on its PFAS Action Plan. PFOA and PFOS Drinking Water Regulations Back On and Only the Beginning.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14].

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. The Biden administration said that rule aims to create a ‘durable’ definition of the Waters of the U.S. The Biden Clean Water Act rule was released in late December and the rule was originally set to take effect in late March.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. US Environmental Protection Agency case.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Regan and the EPA’s top water official, Radhika Fox, announced that the agency will hold listening sessions across the country this summer and fall to seek stakeholder input about how the agency should define streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency. This includes $936 million for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice initiative. ESA and other scientific societies opposed this regulation. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The subcommittee funds the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service. Area of scientific expertise sought include ecological sciences and ecological assessment, ecological risk assessment, ecosystem services, forestry and environmental justice. Nominations are due March 2, 2023.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

National Wildlife Federation CEO Collin O’Mara said it “rightly focuses on collaboration and restoration to achieve the goal of 30×30, rather than regulation and designations. The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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