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EPA is making “key revisions” to its methods for projecting interstate air pollution from power plants and the oil and gas sector under its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) emissions trading framework, but several Southern states are criticizing the overall framework as inappropriate for mitigating cross-state air pollution.
Environmentalists and seven states are asking the Supreme Court to take up their challenge to EPA's Clean Water Act (CWA) rule that exempts water transfers from permit requirements, saying an appellate court's decision to uphold the Bush-era rule contradicts the law's plain text and breaks with the justices' past rulings.
Utilities are warning that a district court ruling subjecting coal ash disposal sites to Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permits for leaks into groundwater could subvert EPA's Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) rule governing ash disposal, an outcome they say could throw states' waste programs into “disarray.”
A federal district court judge has issued a novel ruling extending to Utah the deference that courts often give EPA on interpreting the Clean Air Act, potentially setting a new more-expansive marker on the authority that judges could give states as EPA increasingly seeks to delegate implementation of environmental laws to states.
California and other defenders of current federal light-duty vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards say that the Transportation Department must weigh existing rules issued by EPA and the Golden State when crafting its own requirements for model years 2022-2025, rather than its plan to use much weaker limits as a baseline to assess any regulatory options.
The Trump EPA is proposing its first residual risk and technology review (RTR) -- a Clean Air Act mandated review of existing air toxics standards years after their issuance -- by floating eased emissions standards for cement production facilities, while also clarifying some compliance mandates that may save the sector money.
The chemical industry is preparing a risk evaluation of a siloxane, one of a class of chemicals used to produce a host of industrial and consumer products, which will likely be one of the first that EPA receives under a provision of the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that allows third parties to submit such evaluations to EPA for its consideration.
Environmentalists claim they are noticing an "uptick" in EPA approving weaker state implementation plans (SIPs) for complying with Clean Air Act mandates than they argue the law requires, though some state air regulators see the approvals as encouraging signs of increased cooperation with the agency on the long-delayed SIP process.
In response to an Inspector General (IG) audit, EPA has agreed to reassign Superfund personnel based on a new cleanup prioritization approach, which could be a significant step toward implementing Administrator Scott Pruitt's plan to overhaul the Superfund program given that staffing limitations are seen as one of the major hurdles to the reform bid.
Trump administration officials say plans to increase funds for the Energy Department's (DOE) massive cleanup program by almost $500 million next year, as well as eased regulatory requirements, will allow them to speed cleanups, a change from the prior administration which warned of a significant gap between regulatory mandates and available funds.
The chemical industry is preparing a risk evaluation of a siloxane, one of a class of chemicals used to produce a host of industrial and consumer products, which will likely be one of the first that EPA receives under a provision of the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that allows third parties to submit such evaluations to EPA for its consideration.
A utility group is urging EPA to develop a replacement for the Clean Power Plan (CPP) greenhouse gas rule, with new, scaled-back targets based on actions taken “inside the fence” of regulated power plants -- an approach that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says he is strongly considering.
Exclusive news, hot documents, and timely updates on legislation and litigation over EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers' joint Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule.
