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Rolling Back Environmental Rollbacks in the New Administration
USA - November 13 2020 In 2016, the incoming Trump Administration stated its intention to reduce substantially federal environmental regulation. The president issued…
Keeping Eyes on the Ball: Integration of Distributed Energy Resources
USA - November 5 2020 California residents experienced rolling blackouts - the first in two decades - in August this year, amidst the pandemic and triple-digit heatwave…
New Lawsuit Challenges DOJ Policy Prohibiting SEPs
USA - October 14 2020 The ongoing battle over Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) - environmentally-beneficial, beyond-compliance projects that defendants agree to…
Technical and Economical Considerations for Hydrogen Storage
USA - October 13 2020 Hydrogen recently has been touted by various political leaders around the world as a clean panacea to the problem of energy storage or heat or…
Pleasing All the People Some of the Time: New York Simultaneously Proposes Regulations Implementing Its New Siting Law and Community Benefit Program for Renewable Projects
USA - September 30 2020 Earlier this year New York state, conceding that its previously enacted siting law had not been effective in siting large-scale renewable energy…
Ninth Circuit, in Narrow Holding, Limits Amount Recoverable in CERCLA Contribution Claim to Response Costs Already Incurred
USA - September 16 2020 In ASARCO v. Atlantic Richfield, No. 18-35934 (9th Cir. Sept. 14, 2020), ASARCO entered into a Consent Decree under which ASARCO agreed to pay $111.4…
Third Circuit Considers the Scope of “Matters Addressed” in CERCLA Settlements
USA - September 11 2020 This week, the Third Circuit issued an opinion in NJDEP v. American Thermoplastics Corp et al., No. 18-2865, which adds a new wrinkle on CERCLA…
New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Legislation: The Focus on Major Source Permit Applications Might Impact Property Values
USA - September 8 2020 Last month, I wrote about the “Environmental Justice for All Act,” a bill that proposes a finding that vulnerable populations are disproportionately…
The National Marine Fisheries Service is Angling to Regulate Aquaculture; the Fifth Circuit Won’t Bite
USA - August 6 2020 On Aug. 3, 2020, a split Fifth Circuit plunged federal aquaculture regulation into murky waters. The United States is a minor aquaculture producer…
‘Environmental Justice for All Act’ Introduced in U.S. Senate
USA - August 2 2020 On July 30, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) unveiled the “The Environmental Justice for All Act.” The bill…
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