January 27, 2021 Colorado Division of Water Resources Extends Public Comment Period for First-Ever Revisions to Groundwater Withdrawal Regulations If you live in the Colorado Front Range region, your treated water supply may have or currently include groundwater from the Denver Basin aquifer system. If you are one of the […]
Jan 29, 2021
New “Habitat” Rule for the Endangered Species Act Finalized – Update from Manko Gold Katcher Fox
January 29, 2021 Austin W. Manning MGKF Litigation Blog Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) (collectively, the “Services”) finalized a rule defining the term “habitat” as used for designating “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (the “ESA”). The ESA […]
January 27, 2021 Megan A. Elliott MGKF Litigation Blog On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule (“ACE Rule”), which itself was a rollback of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (“CPP”); once again reshaping […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 14, 2021, the release of the final risk evaluation for C.I. Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), meeting a “major chemical safety milestone.” In the risk evaluation, EPA reviewed 14 conditions of use for PV29, including as an intermediate for […]
January 25, 2021 Bruce S. Katcher On January 20, 2021, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) held another in its series of stakeholder meetings to provide information and solicit input on the development of regulations to implement the new Environmental Justice Law (the “EJ Law” – a summary […]