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Big Money: OSHA and EPA Civil Penalties Increase Again for 2024

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. DOL and U.S. EPA have published their 2024 increases to civil penalties....more

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Environmental and Transportation Regulation Violators Should Expect to Pay More in Civil Penalties in 2024

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Both the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency finished 2023 by issuing new rules that increase the maximum civil penalties for violating certain regulations. For the EPA, those regulations include...more

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EPA Announces Update to Civil Monetary Penalties – Impacts on Water Providers

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On January 6, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its Final Rule, listed at 88 FR 986, updating the maximum civil monetary penalties that may be assessed for violations of environmental statutes....more

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Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Texas Flip N Move (EQ Media, Inc.) Enter into...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Flip N Move Productions and EQ Media, Inc. (collectively “Flip N Move”) entered into a February 3rd Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged...more

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EPA Publishes Annual Inflation Adjustments to Civil Penalty Amounts

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On December 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its annual civil monetary penalty adjustments in the Federal Register. The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015 requires federal...more

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EPA Raises Maximum Civil Penalties Under Every Major Environmental Statute

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On December 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated a Final Rule increasing the maximum statutory civil penalties for violations of major environmental statutes, including the Federal Insecticide,...more

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D.C. Circuit: No FCA Liability for Unassessed Regulatory Penalties

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Kasowitz decision precludes use of the False Claims Act to usurp regulators’ role and collect bounties for never-adjudicated violations. The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in United...more

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D.C. Circuit Rejects Novel Theory of Reverse False Claims Liability for Reporting Violations

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The Situation: In U.S. ex rel. Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP v. BASF Corporation, the relator alleged reverse false claims liability under the False Claims Act ("FCA") for the defendants' purported failure to comply with...more

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PCB Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Trenton, Tennessee, Light and Water Department Enter into Consent...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Trenton Light and Water Department (“TLW”) entered into a June 19th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of certain federal...more

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EPA Raises Statutory Civil Monetary Penalty Amounts

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On July 1, 2016, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim final rule that modifies statutory civil monetary penalty amounts for statutes administered by the agency. EPA’s interim final rule, which...more

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