Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 25 Jul 2023
EPA sets and implements primary and secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants. Primary NAAQS protect the…
Lexology PRO | China, Global, India, etc. | 25 Aug 2022
What legislative and regulatory changes authorities in China, the US and India are prioritising in the battle to combat climate change and pollution in 2022.
Sidley Austin LLP | USA | 5 Apr 2022
On April 6, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is scheduled to publish its proposed Federal Implementation Plan Addressing Ozone…
Holland & Hart LLP | USA | 17 Apr 2020
On April 14, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to retain the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for…
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP | USA | 29 Apr 2019
In a shift from Obama-era guidance, the EPA published in today’s Federal Register a proposal to approve affirmative defense provisions in Texas’s…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 21 Nov 2018
U.S EPA recently issued a draft guidance document titled Revised Policy on Exclusions from “Ambient Air” (Draft Guidance) in which the Agency revises…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 30 Oct 2018
EPA has finalized a regulation you can live with, but someone dissatisfied with that result has sued the Agency. Should you intervene to defend EPA’s…
Sidley Austin LLP | USA | 23 Jul 2018
From July to November 2016, Delaware and Maryland respectively (and together) filed Clean Air Act 126(b) petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleging that upwind states such as Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio were significantly contributing to their non-attainment of eight-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards. The EPA recently published......
Winston & Strawn LLP | USA | 20 Jun 2018
On May 25, 2018, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule titled “Review of the Primary National…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 24 May 2018
2018 is turning out to be a banner year for nationally applicable developments—both judicial and administrative—with regard to National Ambient Air…