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DLA Piper
over 8 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
DLA Piper Climate Change Alert: EPA Announces Carbon Regulations For Existing Power Plants
By Deborah E. Jennings , Andrew B. Schatz and Catherine B. Campbell The Environmental Protection Agency has announced long-awaited regulations to reduce carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from existing power plants pursuant to the Clean Air Act. EPA's...
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC: EPA Releases Clean Power Plan
By Stephen L. Miller On August 3, 2015, President Obama and EPA Administrator McCarthy released the agency’s Clean Power Plan , regulations designed to significantly reduce CO 2 emissions from power plants, as well as promoting low-emitting power...
Ballard Spahr LLP
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Ballard Spahr LLP: President Obama, EPA Announce Final Clean Power Plan to Regulate Power Plant Emissions Connected to Climate Change
President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the issuance of the long-anticipated Federal Clean Power Plan, which regulates emission to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from existing fossil fuel-fired electric...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Supreme Court Ruling on EPA Mercury Rule: Utilities Win the Battle, But Lose the War
By Jessica J.O. King The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants if the agency determines that such “regulation is appropriate and necessary” after studying the hazards the...
Babst Calland
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Babst Calland: Public Hearings Announced for EPA Air Rules Targeting Oil and Gas Sector
By Meredith Odato Graham [On Aug. 27] the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will host three public hearings in September regarding proposed Clean Air Act rulemaking actions that will affect the oil and gas industry. Two hearings...
Babst Calland
over 8 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Babst Calland: Environmental Advocacy Groups Call for National Methane Emission Standards
By Holly A. Pisanelli On September 18, 2014, sixteen of the nation’s largest environmental advocacy groups joined forces in a letter to President Barack Obama calling for national standards aimed at reducing methane emissions from oil and gas...
Troutman Sanders
over 7 years ago
Energy
Energy Law Blog
Troutman Sanders: EPA Modifies Air Quality Standards for Ozone
By Troutman Sanders LLP On October 1, 2015 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) adopted a more stringent air quality standard for ground-level ozone emissions that reduces the national standard from 75 parts per billion...
Tom Moylan
over 9 years ago
New York
New York Law Blog
2nd Circuit Affirms $104 Million MTBE Contamination Verdict Against Exxon
NEW YORK — (Mealey’s) The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 26 affirmed a $104.6 million methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contamination verdict for New York City against Exxon Mobil Corp., finding in part that the state tort verdict...
LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Environmental
Oil, Gas and Energy Law
BP Alaska to Pay $25 Million Penalty for Alaskan North Slope Oil Spill
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) have announced that BP Exploration Alaska...
LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff
over 10 years ago
Climate Change
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9th Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Kivalina v ExxonMobil
Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the federal common law claim of public nuisance for global warming by greenhouse gases by the Alaskan Village of Kivalina was displaced by the Clean Air Act and Environmental Protection...
Steven M. Siros
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
U.S. EPA Considering Limiting Self-Disclosure Incentives
By Steven M. Siros, Partner, Jenner & Block Under U.S. EPA's current audit policy, companies that self-disclose environmental violations may be entitled to the elimination or reduction of penalties for non-compliance. However, U.S. EPA recently...
Todd Janzen
over 9 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Five Agricultural Legal Issues to Watch in 2014
What will be the hot topics in ag law for 2014? Here are some predictions for the coming year: 1. Clean Air Act Targets Farmers . Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 to clean up the nation’s air. The low hanging fruit of air pollution—power...
LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff
over 11 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Marten Law Launches San Francisco Office
Former Orrick Environmental Partner to Anchor Firm's Expansion to California Robert Lawrence , former chair of Orrick's environmental transactions group, will anchor Marten Law's new San Francisco office - making it one of the largest...
LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Obama Administration Finalizes Historic 54.5 mpg Fuel Efficiency Standards
Consumer Savings Comparable to Lowering Price of Gasoline by $1 Per Gallon by 2025 WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama Administration has finalized groundbreaking standards that will increase fuel economy to the equivalent of 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty...
Svend Brandt-Erichsen
over 11 years ago
Climate Change
Climate Change Blog
Marten Law: Washington State Decision Excludes Bioenergy-Based GHG Emissions From Clean Air Act Permit Requirements
By Svend Brandt-Erichsen, Partner, Marten Law PLLC "An administrative hearings board in Washington State has rejected calls for further assessment of climate impacts from a cogeneration project that will burn woody biomass to generate electricity...
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