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Effective November, 21, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) revised its guiding 1981 Mitigation Policy to provide a...
Tags: USFWS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1981 Mitigation Policy, Environment
On October 17, 2016, the Bureau of Land Management released a Notice of Competitive Oil and Gas Internet-Based Lease Sale for...
Tags: Energy, Environment
On September 22, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as an...
Tags: Endangered Species, Energy, Environment
On August 24, 2016, U.S. EPA proposed revisions to the rules governing the petition process for Title V permits under 40 CFR Part...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Energy, Environment, Title V
This entry provides an update to our blog post on February 23, 2016 regarding the Sixth Circuit’s decision that it has...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
On August 9, 2016, Governor Kasich signed Executive Order 2016-04K authorizing the immediate adoption of rules creating an...
Tags: Division of Oil and Gas Resource Management, Oil and Gas, Energy, Environment
In July, the State of North Dakota filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging U.S. EPA’s final rule...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Methane Emissions, Energy, Environment
In 2015, several minors living in Pennsylvania filed a climate change lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania against...
Tags: Energy, climate change; environmental rights amendment; pe, Environment
On June 27, 2016 U.S. EPA finalized a regulation under the Clean Water Act that prohibits the discharge of wastewater from...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
The Toxic Substances Control Act (“TSCA”) became law in 1976 with the objective of regulating chemicals in commerce that posed an...
Tags: Articles, EPA, Environment
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