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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is urging a federal district court to reject a proposed settlement between Sierra Club and DTE Energy in a long-running new source review (NSR) enforcement case, making an unprecedented claim that a private party is barred from going beyond what DOJ is seeking under the same enforcement action.
Democratic appropriators in the House are reiterating and amplifying multiple concerns with EPA’s deregulatory efforts and resistance to Hill oversight, pressing the agency for action or information on numerous topics, including water contamination, toxic chemical risk assessment and agency enforcement.
Public health groups, environmentalists, and organizations representing major industrial sectors are holding a series of 11th-hour meetings with EPA and White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) officials in a bid to sway the agency’s imminent proposed decision on whether to retain its existing suite of ozone ambient air limits.
In response to a federal appeals court remand, EPA is proposing to tighten its maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics limits for 28 types of boilers while weakening limits for six other types, relying in part on counting the “co-benefits” of the rule reducing air pollutants not directly regulated by the proposal.
In a flurry of recent final actions, EPA has completed several Clean Air Act-mandated reviews of sector-specific national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) rules that largely leave air toxics risk assessments and emissions limits unchanged, but tighten certain compliance requirements and make other minor changes.
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Aligning the United States and other member countries of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with the Paris climate agreement will be the biggest challenge ahead for the major financial institution, according to the bank’s most recent president.
Financial institutions are exposed to biodiversity risks in nine high-priority economic sectors and should systematically assess and manage such risks, says a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that floats a method for how the firms could respond.
While companies are touting their sustainability using environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, stakeholders and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) see a need for better data on how these businesses’ claims of ESG action translate to real-world results.
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Despite the Supreme Court’s decision this week clearing the way for the use of a Clean Water Act (CWA) general permit for most pipeline construction, unresolved questions about how to assess endangered species impacts from the projects creates uncertainty over whether they can proceed, legal experts say.
Seven heavy-industry trade unions are urging House Democrats drafting ambitious climate change legislation to consider imposing an “energy transition fee,” such as a wires charge on electricity users or a fee on energy production, to provide the revenue stream they say is needed to help displaced workers and to promote carbon-sequestration research.
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