2/26/2025 9:46:00 PM Major Changes in National Environmental Policy Act Process By Ana Maria Gutiérrez Jessica Portmess The Council for Environmental Quality’s (“CEQ”) published an interim final rule yesterday repealing all of its implementing regulations...
7/19/2023 2:46:00 PM New N.C. Regulatory Proposal Puts Burden of PFAS Clean-Up Costs on Polluters, Not Ratepayers By Brad De Vore PFAS contamination in drinking water is under increasing regulatory scrutiny, not only from the EPA and other federal agencies, but state...
7/14/2022 9:44:00 PM EPA’s Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda Updates Actions for PFAS Strategic Roadmap By Jimmy Kirkland On October 18, 2021, EPA announced its PFAS Strategic Roadmap (“Roadmap”) which outlines EPA’s comprehensive agency wide approach for...
7/12/2022 8:21:00 PM North Carolina Develops Action Strategy for PFAS Regulation By Brad De Vore Lisa Rushton Last week, we informed you about new federal efforts to measure and reduce PFAS contamination levels in drinking water. But there also...
7/12/2022 6:04:00 PM EPA to Increase Review of Voluntary Self-Disclosures of Violations By Jimmy Kirkland On June 30, 2022 the EPA Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued the results of an evaluation to determine if EPA’s process for...
7/7/2022 8:35:00 PM EPA Announces New PFAS Health Advisory Levels, Releases Additional Funding for PFAS Remediation By Brad De Vore Lisa Rushton The Biden Administration has made PFAS reduction a cornerstone of its environmental policy. With that goal in mind, on June 15th the...
7/5/2022 9:00:00 PM Colorado PFAS Act Likely Just the Beginning of New PFAS Chemical Regulation By Michael Sullivan Brendan White Key TakeawaysThe term “PFAS” has become a “four-letter word” that refers to a common group of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemical...
1/26/2022 11:47:00 PM Supreme Court Takes Up Clean Water Act Case, May Settle ‘WOTUS’ Definition By Dietrich Hoefner On January 24th, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Certiorari in Sackett, Michael, et ux. v. EPA, et al. on the limited question of...
12/23/2021 11:55:00 PM BLM Notices Nearly 90,000 Acres for Solar Leasing in CO, NM, and NV By Womble Bond Dickinson On December 21, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) published a Notice in the Federal Register calling for expressions of interest and...
10/7/2021 10:45:00 PM Council on Environmental Quality Proposes Changes to its Regulations By Womble Bond Dickinson On October 7, 2021, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed certain changes to its regulations implementing the National...
9/2/2021 10:54:00 PM Arizona Federal Court Vacates The Navigable Waters Protection Rule, EPA and the Army Corps to Redefine “Waters of the United States” By Dietrich Hoefner On August 30, 2021, Judge Marquez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
7/1/2021 11:10:00 PM SCOTUS: Authorized Pipeline Developers Can Exercise Federal Eminent Domain Over State, Municipal Land By Thomas J. Dougherty On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reverse the Third Circuit and affirm that authorized natural gas pipeline...
6/23/2021 9:19:00 PM Court Dismisses Challenges to Council on Environmental Quality’s 2020 National Environmental Policy Act Reforms By Womble Bond Dickinson On June 21, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia dismissed plaintiffs' challenges to the Council on...
4/15/2021 3:17:00 PM Isopropylated Phosphate (3:1) – Could Restrictions Impact You? By Mark Vaders Lisa Rushton On March 8, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is seeking additional public comment on five final...
4/28/2020 7:33:00 PM The Benefits, Concerns and Considerations of Remote Depositions and Mediations in the COVID-19 Climate By James P. Cooney III Mark Henriques Note: This article is based on an April 22nd Womble Bond Dickinson webinar. Click here to watch the full discussion. Remote depositions...
4/20/2020 10:04:00 PM EPA Relaxes TSCA Reporting Requirements By Michael Sullivan Patrick Spaugh EPA proposes three exemptions to TSCA self-reporting requirementAnnounces Assurance of No ActionReporting deadline is May 27In a welcome...