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This week in hydraulic fracturing
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- USA
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- February 24 2013
Inspector General report claims EPA lacks sufficient data on oil and gas emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General issued a
This week in hydraulic fracturing
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- February 10 2013
EPA Reports Oil and Gas Sector Has Second Highest GHG Emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") released a report on its greenhouse
This week in hydraulic fracturing
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- January 28 2013
EPA to reconsider portions of oil & gas NSPS. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reconsider portions of its New Source Performance
This week in hydraulic fracturing
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- January 27 2013
Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), claiming that BLM's review of potential environmental harms under the
This week in hydraulic fracturing
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- January 25 2013
The Department of Interior (DOI) announced it is revising a draft rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal land managed by the U.S. Bureau of
New EPA interpretation on the status of debris contaminated by PCBs from caulk and other building materials
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- November 26 2012
On November 16, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted its “PCB Bulk Product Waste Reinterpretation” (“Reinterpretation”) on the Agency’s PCB website
Sixth Circuit rejects EPA’s longstanding interpretation requiring small “interrelated” emission sources to obtain Title V and PSD permits
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- August 8 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA or The Agency) interpretation of the term “contiguous or adjacent” under the Clean Air Act in determining when multiple emission sources are close enough together to be considered a single stationary source for purposes of the Title V operating permit and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit programs
EPA releases final rule deferring regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass combustion under the Clean Air Act permitting pPrograms
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- July 6 2011
On July 1, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a final rule deferring for three years “the application of the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V permitting requirements to biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from bioenergy and other biogenic stationary sources.”
D.C. Circuit upholds EPA interpretation that used material becomes a “spent material” subject to RCRA regulation after it can no longer serve purpose of its initial use
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- August 11 2010
The D.C. Circuit issued a 2-1 decision on August 6, 2010 that could expand the scope of what constitutes a “spent material” subject to regulation under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and thus could limit the re-use and sale of materials that companies have used in their processes
Waxman TSCA “reform” bill would radically expand chemical regulation and impose new safety and reporting requirements
- Sidley Austin LLP
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- USA
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- July 27 2010
On July 22, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) introduced H.R. 5820, the “Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010.”
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Environment
- Author - David T. Buente