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EPA's proposed rule regarding treatment of startups, shutdowns, and malfunctions under the Clean Air Act

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

On February 22, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") published a proposed rule entitled Response to Petition for Rulemaking

EPA issues new vapor intrusion guidance

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

On April 16, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") released two new draft vapor intrusion guidance documents for public comment. The two

Second Obama term may bring more aggressive climate change agenda

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

On November 7, 2012, we learned that the United States had spent in excess of $6 billion on a national election that essentially preserved the status quoPresident Obama, a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and a Democrat-controlled Senatewith one potentially significant difference: Knowing that he will never again need to campaign for votes in a "swing state," President Obama may feel more free in his second term to address the politically challenging issue of climate change

U.S. EPA defers greenhouse gas permitting requirements for some biogenic emissions

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 13 2011

On July 1, 2011, U.S. EPA finalized an amendment to the federal greenhouse gas permitting regulations that will temporarily exclude certain biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from consideration in determining whether a source's level of emissions trigger permitting requirements under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration ("PSD") and Title V permit programs

In 2010, climate change strategy shifted from comprehensive to piecemeal

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • January 11 2011

Inability to build consensus doomed efforts, at both the U.S. and international levels, to establish comprehensive climate change regulatory programs in 2010

Both sides seeking action on climate change in lame duck session of Congress

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2010

Senators from both sides of the climate change debate are seeking to put the issue on the agenda for the "lame duck" session of Congress following the November 2, 2010 congressional midterm elections

Lawsuit challenges federal government's use of fuel from oil sands

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • November 1 2010

The Sierra Club and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy have sued the U.S. Department of Defense in federal court to stop the military from purchasing fuels derived from the oil sands of western Canada

Judicial challenges to EPA's climate change regulatory efforts flourish

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 19 2010

On June 3, 2010, the United States Environmental Protection Agency promulgated its final Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule, which will govern permitting of major stationary sources of greenhouse gases

Congress continues to ponder climate change

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2010

Last summer, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the comprehensive Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, H.R. 2454

EPA proposes to add oil and natural gas, carbon sequestration, and fluorinated gas-emitting facilities to greenhouse gas reporting system

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2010

On March 23, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced a set of proposed rules that would expand the scope of the nation's new greenhouse gas ("GHG") reporting system, codified at 40 C.F.R. part 98