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Federal appeals court rules against NRC on waste confidence rule

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2012

In a case brought against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by New York, Vermont, Connecticut, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Riverkeeper Inc., and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on June 8 that the commission did not conduct a sufficiently thorough analysis of its rule determining that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored at power plans for as long as 60 years beyond a reactor’s license

Ethanol survey

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2012

According to the Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, and the American Coalition for Ethanol, ethanol producers announced April 23 that they will fund a nationwide fuel survey of 160,000 gas stations, the last Environmental Protection Agency Requirement they face to move forward with E15 gasoline

Bird information sought

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 1 2012

The American Bird Conservancy filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia June 26

Reservoir riparian rights ruling released

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 20 2013

On May 9, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted summary judgment for defendant Alabama Power Co. in a case questioning

Vogtle plant challenge rejected

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 20 2013

On May 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a suit surrounding the recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission

AZ appeals haze decision

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2013

Arizona petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit January 31 for a review of an Environmental Protection Agency rule that partially

NC certification authority upheld

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled May 3 that a North Carolina regulatory dispute that delayed the effective date of a Clean Water Act compliance certification for a power company did not negate the state’s certification authority

Supreme Court asked to review appellate MACT requirement ruling

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2011

Sandy Creek Energy Associates asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to allow continued construction of a $2 billion coal-fired power plant outside Waco, Texas

Court upholds lease decision

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2011

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld April 29 an Interior Department decision to cancel four oil and gas leases of the California coast and rejected the arguments from Aera Energy LLC and Noble Energy that opposed the cancellation

MA and owners of coal-fired power plant agree to monitoring in deal

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2011

A state court ruled that the Mount Tom power plant in Holyoke, MA will have to install a system to provide continuous monitoring of the facility's emissions to settle state allegations that the plant repeatedly exceeded emissions limits over the past several years