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Divided appeals court vacates air transport rule targeted at coal-fired power plants

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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August 30 2012

In EME Homer City Generation, L.P. v. EPA, two judges of a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2011 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (Transport Rule), which implemented the so-called "good-neighbor" provision of 110 of the four-decade-old Clean Air Act (CAA

United States' first offshore wind farm obtains critical federal approval

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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August 21 2012

For the fourth time the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on August 15, 2012 issued a Determination of No Hazard to the proposed Cape Wind project, which, if constructed after a decade of planning, will be the United States’ first offshore wind farm

Department of Interior Secretary endorses federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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July 25 2012

Speaking about upcoming Bureau of Land ManagementDepartment of Interior rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, DOI Secretary Salazar recently opined that state regulation of fracing was insufficient and suggested that more stringent federal regulations may be required

Federal authorities obtain first-ever criminal conviction regarding fraudulent generation of renewable fuel credits

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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July 5 2012

On June 25, 2012, a federal jury in Maryland found the owner of a fraudulent clean energy production company guilty of wire fraud, money laundering and violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA

US EPA proposes first Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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June 19 2012

On 13 April 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule, Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants (the rule), in the Federal Register, which would set the first nationwide limits on carbon emissions from certain new power plants

Hydraulic fracturing regulatory updates in California and Pennsylvania

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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May 24 2012

California currently has no regulations specific to fracing but has well construction standards designed to keep natural gas and oil field fluids away from underground water sources

EPA releases final permitting guidance for fracing with diesel fuel

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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May 22 2012

Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) on private land has long been overseen by state regulators enforcing state-specific permitting, installation and other requirements

Senate bill calls for earthquake-hydraulic fracturing study

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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April 19 2012

The link between hydraulic fracturing activity and seismic activity has been the subject of much discussion of late, including on this blog

EPA releases final fracturing air rule

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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April 19 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released final regulations on April 17 to reduce certain emissions at hydraulically fractured wells by 95 percent

EPA again concludes that Dimock well water is safe to drink

McDermott Will & Emery
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USA
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April 19 2012

At the request of residents in Dimock, PA, for the past several months EPA has been testing drinking water wells for contamination that the residents attribute to nearby fracing activities by Cabot Oil

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