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California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

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State and federal officials move forward plans and policies for water conservation, conveyance, and climate resilience. The winter of 2022-23 brought historic levels of precipitation to California after years of deep...more

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PFAS Update: 2022 Federal PFAS Regulatory Recap

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As anticipated, 2022 was another eventful year for the regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) at the federal level. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) took significant actions under...more

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Underground Injection Control/California Power Generation Plant: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition for Review

Panoche Energy Center, LLC, (“PEC”) filed an October 28th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging certain conditions of...more

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Alabama Incorporating PFAS Requirements into Permits for Certain Industrial Categories

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or “PFAS,” as they have come to be known, are a category of widely-used and long-lasting chemicals found in many consumer, commercial, and industrial products. The human health and...more

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Responsible Agency Under CEQA Must Make Express Findings as to Each Potentially Significant Impact Identified in Lead Agency’s EIR

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The Court of Appeal held that the City of Mount Shasta violated CEQA by approving a wastewater permit for a water bottling plant without making specific findings as to each potentially significant impact identified as...more

Downey Brand LLP

California Steps Up Its Investigations and Permitting of PFAS

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The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) recently updated the regulated community and the public on the Board’s statewide investigation to study and sample potential sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more

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Sand Mining Hits Rock Bottom: LI’s Local Laws May Prohibit Future Operations

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Last month, the Appellate Division, Third Department, held the Mined Land Reclamation Law (“Mining Law”), as amended, does not preempt certain local zoning laws which prohibit mining. Specifically, in Town of Southampton v...more

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Brine Injection/UIC: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses Challenges to Class II Permit

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed in an August 8th Order challenges to an Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Class II Permit (“Permit”) issued by the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - June 2018 #2

LyondellBasell Looking to Control Braskem; Could Help WV Cracker - "A deal could breathe life into the ethane cracker Braskem proposed for a site near Parkersburg, W.Va., roughly five years ago." Why this is important:...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?

A recent decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Hawai'i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui) created a new standard for permitting under the Clean Water Act — one that captures discharges from point sources through...more

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Unresolved Reg 2 Issues and Triennial Review Preview: Raymond E. Wieda, PE (FTN Associates) Arkansas Environmental Federation...

Mr. Raymond E. Wieda, undertook a presentation at the 2018 Arkansas Environmental Federation Water Seminar titled: Unresolved Reg 2 Issues and Triennial Review Preview (“Presentation”) ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Administration's Infrastructure Plan Supports Reuse of Brownfields and Superfund Sites

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• The Trump Administration released an ambitious $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Feb. 12, 2018 – a plan that includes many provisions focused upon encouraging the reuse of contaminated brownfields and Superfund sites. ...more

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Massachusetts Permitting Goes Online

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Finally catching up with many states that have made it possible to apply for and review permits online, Massachusetts’ Energy and Environmental Information Public Access System (EIPAS) went online last month, promising to...more

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Interstate Pipeline Project: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to State Water Quality Certification

The United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (“Court”) addressed a challenge to a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) related to the proposed construction of an...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

California to Require Domestic Water Suppliers to Test School Drinking Water for Lead

The State Water Resources Control Board recently adopted an amendment to all Domestic Water Supply Permits it issues to public water systems that supply drinking water. The amendment requires domestic water suppliers for...more

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Second Circuit Upholds EPA’s Water Transfers Rule

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Transfers Rule last week. Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, et al. v. EPA, et al. 14-1823, 14-1909,...more

Troutman Pepper

Expect Increased Environmental Regulatory Scrutiny in the Wake of the Flint Water Crisis

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The regulated community should plan for an increased level of agency oversight, inspection and enforcement and increased public involvement. Although there has been much finger pointing as to which party or parties may...more

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