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P2N0 - Edition 15 - News and Views on the Drive Towards Net-Zero GHG Emissions

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Welcome to the Edition 15 of P2N0 covering the drive to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero (NZE). P2N0 identifies significant news items globally, reporting on them in short form, focusing on policy settings...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

AI-Enabled Compliance: Keeping Pace With the Feds

The potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform business has commanded enormous attention over the past year. Little noted, however, is the U.S. government’s increasing — and increasingly sophisticated — use of AI...more

Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report – 3.28.2024

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •DOJ and State AGs Attempt to Take a Bite Out of Apple - ...more

Jenner & Block

Remote Sensing as a Supplement to Emissions Monitoring and Quantification

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According to a recent Bloomberg article, a company did not report an August 2023 air emissions event to state environmental regulators until December, just days after the company was asked by Bloomberg Green about a methane...more

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Cybersecurity Memorandum: Withdrawal of Document Challenged by Arkansas Attorney General Announced by U.S. Environmental...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a memorandum on October 11th titled: Withdrawal of Cybersecurity Memorandum of March 3, 2023 (“Withdrawal Memorandum”) The Withdrawal Memorandum was transmitted...more

Wiley Rein LLP

State Lawsuit Over New Cyber Rule Tees Up Legality of Federal Policy Changes

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As the federal government takes increasingly directive steps to increase expectations for private sector cybersecurity, one of its more recent regulatory moves has drawn a federal court challenge. On April 17, 2023, the...more

Perkins Coie

Sector-Based Cybersecurity Requirements for Critical Infrastructure, From Our Water Systems to the Skies

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Following the release of President Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden explained that the Biden Administration is “expecting more” from owners and operators in critical...more

BCLP

PFAS and your business: remediating PFAS impacts

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EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap identifies several avenues for organizations that have historically used or currently use PFAS to remediate these compounds or remove them from waste streams or drinking water. While there are...more

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Compliance

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“Geographic Information System” (GIS) describes any computer system that incorporates data related to location. GIS can present several different data points in a single map, which allows users to view and analyze trends and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

U.S. EPA Proposes New Emissions Guidelines to Reduce Methane from the Oil and Gas Industry

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On November 2, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a proposed rule that is intended to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (“GHGs”) and other air pollutants from the crude oil and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Driving the Future of Automotive Technology

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Powering the future is now! Electric vehicles (EVs) and self-driving cars (AVs) are two of the most innovative technologies in the history of the automotive industry....more

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Affordable Clean Air Energy Rule/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Issues Final Rule

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) yesterday issued a final version of the previously proposed Affordable Clean Air Act Affordable Clean Energy (“ACE”) Rule. The ACE rule had been proposed on August...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Recycled-Plastic Pathways and Parks? New Ways for Municipalities to Reuse and Recycle

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Technological innovations are creating ways to re-use, and in some cases profit from, materials recycled and materials discarded in waterways. ...more

Mintz

Energy Technology Connections Newsletter - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News: March 2017

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Our March edition of Energy Technology Connections brings you recent industry highlights and features a list of upcoming energy industry events throughout the nation. If you enjoy learning about new technology as much as we...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

What a Shock?! Nebraska’s Early Challenge to EPA’s Clean Power Plan Is Dismissed

Opponents of EPA’s Clean Power Plan have not been willing to wait until a final rule has been promulgated before challenging EPA’s authority. On Monday, Nebraska’s challenged was dismissed – not surprisingly – as premature....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Malama Composites Wins "Most Innovative Technology" Award From PortTech For Biobased Rigid Urethane Foams

On September 25, 2014, Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group (BRAG®) member Malama Composites, Inc. (Malama) announced that its biobased rigid urethane foams won the PortTech Los Angeles Entrepreneur Pitch...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Energy Technology Connections - June 2014

Leaders in the News - The XL3 Hybrid Drive from XL Hybrids, a developer of hybrid electric powertrains for commercial vans and trucks, was recently selected by Inc.’s Best In Class judging panel as one of the seven...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Cooperative Federalism? We Don’t Need No Stinkin Cooperative Federalism

Last Friday, the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Oklahoma v. EPA, affirmed EPA’s rejection of Oklahoma’s state implementation plan setting forth its determination of the Best Available Retrofit Technology, or BART,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Which Comes First, Innovation or Regulation?

Two seemingly unrelated stories in Wednesday’s trade press got me thinking – always dangerous – about the relationship between regulation and innovation. The first story, from Daily Environment Report, noted that House...more

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