The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed new rules that would add PFAS chemicals to the list of hazardous substances covered under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Companies are increasingly focusing on ESG issues, as major institutional and individual investors closely follow and support them. For example, investment managers like BlackRock will no longer invest in shares of companies that do not have and follow their own ESG policies. These days, battle lines have been drawn around the issue of ESG investing;…
In a decision that effected a major change to the federal government’s ability to regulate, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gasses rules. In its interpretation of a section of the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court applied a legal principle that could impact far more government…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued its efforts to regulate power plants, previewing a series of wide-ranging rules that it plans to impose on power plant operators in the near future. Even though the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is currently in doubt, the agency continues to press forward and has served…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is under intense pressure to regulate ethylene oxide (EO) and reduce emissions based on its prior characterization of the substance as a likely cause of cancer. However, the inputs into that description have been challenged as flawed and just plain wrong. In spite of this, the EPA continues to…