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Update on North American Emission Control Area enforcement and fuel availability guidance

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 17 2012

Enforcement of the North American Emission Control Area ("ECA") begins August 1, 2012

Coast Guard issues final rule on ballast water management

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 24 2012

On March 23, 2012, the Coast Guard issued a long awaited Final Rule, Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters, amending the existing ballast water management (“BWM”) regulations and creating a standard for the allowable concentration of living organisms in ballast water discharged in U.S. waters consistent with the International Maritime Organization’s International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (“BWM Convention”

Supreme Court issues stunning rebuke to EPA enforcement practice

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2012

In a stunning rebuke to decades of EPA practice, the United States Supreme Court on March 21, 2012 changed the way many of our federal environmental laws will be enforced

No speeding! And, be ready for EPA’s new vessel general permit

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2012

The U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) have issued reminders to ship operators that the Right Whale Ship Strike Reduction Rule (the “Final Rule”) is in effect and being enforced

An update on China’s regulations on ship source pollution

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 14 2012

On March 1, 2010, the Chinese government launched its anti-marine pollution regime by enacting the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Marine Pollution from Ships (the “Regulations”

NJ LSRPs - speaking with the enemy?

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2012

With limited exceptions, on May 7, 2012, New Jersey's requirement to use Licensed Site Remediation Professionals ("LSRPs") will be expanded to apply to all persons remediating sites in New Jersey

U.S. EPA issues long-awaited final health assessment for perc, classifies it as a "likely human carcinogen"

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2012

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated its health assessment for tetrachloroethylene (more commonly known as perc, and also known as perchloroethylene) by formally classifying the chemical as a "likely human carcinogen" and identifying long-term, noncancer health effects associated with exposure to it

City of Philadelphia announces stormwater management grant program

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 23 2012

The Philadelphia Water Department and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation have announced a new Stormwater Management Incentives Program (SMIP) Grant, which complements the existing SMIP Loan Program

Only 45 days left&x2014;have you commented on EPA&x2019;s draft vessel general permit?

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2012

On December 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published two draft Vessel General Permits (“VGPs”) that would authorize discharges incidental to the normal operation of commercial vesselsone to replace the existing VGP currently in force (“2008 VGP”) and one that would apply to small vessels (“SVGP”), which are currently exempt from the 2008 VGP

NERC petitions FERC for approval of revised vegetation management standard

  • Blank Rome LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 5 2012

On December 21, 2011, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking, among other things, approval of reliability standard FAC-003-2Transmission Vegetation Management, which, if approved, would replace the currently-effective Reliability Standard FAC-003-1