On June 30, 2014, the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding local bans on shale gas drilling. In response to...
Tags: Energy
On June 25, 2014, U.S. EPA released a final risk assessment for trichloroethylene (TCE). The TCE risk assessment, developed as...
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On June 24, 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a six-month extension for making a final determination on whether...
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On June 23, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision limiting U.S. EPA’s regulation of carbon emissions from stationary...
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On May 30, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down U.S. EPA’s attempt to limit the jurisdictional scope...
Tags: Aggregation, Air, Energy, Environment
On May 13, 2014, Ohio EPA published notice of an Early Stakeholder Outreach (ESO) regarding the beneficial use of material from a...
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On May 9, 2014, U.S. EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under Section 8 of the Toxic Substances Control Act...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, TSCA, Energy
On May 13, 2014, several environmental groups filed a petition requesting that U.S. EPA exercise its authority under Section 112...
On April 29, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court held that U.S. EPA did not violate the Clean Air Act (CAA) when it issued the Cross...
Tags: Air, Environment
On March 25, 2014, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers jointly released a proposed rule redefining "Waters of the United...
Tags: Clean Water Act, Environment