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Senate version of energy bill unveiled

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) have released the latest version of their energy bill

Waste: GAO report recommends EPA regulation of e-waste

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2010

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommends that EPA push for ratification of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal and work with other federal agencies to finalize a legislative proposal to halt export of electronic waste to developing countries

Coastal Zone Mgmt. Act: Fifth Circuit affirms dismissal of challenge to wind farm

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2010

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court decision allowing the construction of a coastal wind farm to proceed without an environmental consistency review or public comment

FIFRA: EPA agrees to settle humantesting lawsuit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2010

EPA has agreed to withdraw a 2006 rule that allowed the use of human subjects for testing of pesticides and to issue a proposed rule with stricter protections by January 2011, thereby settling a challenge to the rule filed by several environmental and other groups

Hazmat: Coast Guard proposes harmonizing bulk hazmat regulations with international rules

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 25 2010

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a proposed rule that would harmonize its bulk solid hazardous materials regulations with those of the International Maritime Organization. 75 Fed. Reg. 34,573 (061710

Nanotechnology: OECD revises guidance on testing of manufactured nanomaterials

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 18 2010

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revised a guidance document on safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials

National Forest Management ActNEPA: ban on old growth logging reversed, Forest Service found in compliance with law

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2010

A split Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has reversed a district court injunction that halted a U.S. Forest Service (FS) plan for logging in an old growth forest area in Oregon

CERCLA: GAO report says remediation funds insufficient

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2010

According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, EPA's cost estimate for remediation of 1,269 existing CERCLA sites exceeds current funding levels, and funding will likely be inadequate over the next five years

Maryland law to phase out products containing deca-BDE

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) has signed legislation (S.B. 556) that phases out the manufacture, lease, sale, or distribution of certain products containing the flame retardant decabrominated diphenyl ether (deca-BDE

Electronic waste: report claims Germany exports 155,000-plus tons of electronic waste annually

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 19 2010

According to a recent report by the German Institute for Environmental Strategies in Hamburg, Germany exports more than 155,000 metric tons of used electrical and electronic equipment to Africa and Asia each year