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EPA sets rules for commercial vessel discharges

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2009

Effective Feb. 6, 2009, all commercial vessels 79 feet or longer that discharge pollutants incidental to their normal operations will become subject to the new Vessel General Permit (VGP or permit) issued by the EPA when they come into the United States three mile territorial sea or inland waters

EPA issues general permit for vessel discharges

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2009

EPA issued a new Vessels General Permit under the Clean Water Act that will apply to an estimated 69,000 commercial vessels

US Environmental Protection Agency's Vessel General Permit regulations go into effect February 6, 2009

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 9 2009

On December 18, 2008 the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the 2008 Vessel General Permit (VGP) regulating discharges incidental to the normal function of vessels operating as a means of transportation

Clean air and fuel economy standards

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2009

The Obama administration has proposed new clean air and fuel economy (CAFE) standards for cars and trucks, including federal limits for tailpipe emissions

Second Circuit declines to re-consider standard for prosecutions of corporations

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2009

On January 20, 2009, the Second Circuit affirmed the conviction of Ionia Management, S.A. (“Ionia”) for the criminal acts of its non-management employees

Clean Air Act: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holds California’s marine vessel rules preempted by the Federal Clean Air Act

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2008

In Pacific Merchant Shipping Association v. Goldstene, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that California rules limiting emissions from auxiliary diesel engines of oceangoing vessels were preempted by the Federal Clean Air Act

Transportation

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2009

We have taken an expansive look at the stimulus, and you will note that many of the programs are not perfect fits for the construction of the new maintenance facility

Two U.S. Supreme Court rulings pave the way, maybe

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2007

On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision (Massachusetts, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al.) that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had a duty to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) and three other greenhouse gases (GHGs) as air pollutants under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) unless it could find better support to justify its decision than it articulated to the court

Groups announce plans to sue EPA over GHG emissions from marine shipping vessels and aircraft

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2008

In response to the EPA’s failure to respond to petitions requesting regulations on GHG emissions from ships and aircraft, a coalition of conservation groups and numerous states and jurisdictions announced their plans yesterday to sue EPA

U.S. Department of Transportation sets aggressive new fuel economy targets

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2008

In an ambitious policy move, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a new set of rules aimed at substantially raising fuel economy standards by 2015

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