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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 29, 2021, that it will be “taking important steps under the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) to advance Environmental Justice, improve transparency, and increase access to environmental information.”  EPA plans to expand the scope of TRI reporting requirements to include additional chemicals and facilities, including facilities […]

On April 7, 2021, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced new steps that EPA is taking to advance the environmental justice goals of the Biden Administration.  This is the first in an occasional series of articles that will follow this important development in the NSR program. Read More >>>

April 30, 2021 Megan A. Elliott MGKF Litigation Blog Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, […]

On February 16, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS).  On April, 12, 2021, OSHA published a Federal Register notice to extend the comment period of the NPRM to amend the HCS by one month.  The HCS is the federal-level […]

April 21, 2021 Trump-Era Clean Water Act Rule Takes Effect in Colorado on April 23, 2021, While Colorado Public Officials Renew Efforts to Craft a State-Level Dredge-and-Fill Permitting Program Following a temporary delay in Colorado federal court, the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) will now take effect in […]