According to POLITICO, even Republicans in Congress are concerned that the EPA will not move forward with a rulemaking to regulate PFOS and PFOA. It appears acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has already approved a decision, contained in the agency’s forthcoming chemical management plan, not to add the chemicals to the group of
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Receiving Facilities Will Be Responsible For Payment of User Fees Under the E-Manifest User Fee Final Rule
By Ann Zwick on
Continuing on our discussion of the electronic manifest (e-Manifest) system, EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, signed the e-Manifest User Fee Final Rule on December 20, 2017. EPA expects the final rule to be published in the Federal Register in the coming weeks. The pre-publication version of the final rule is attached here.
Under the final…
Environmental Groups and States Are Challenging EPA’s Stay of Oil and Gas Well Methane Rule
By Freeborn & Peters LLP on
Posted in General Environmental
Several environmental organizations have petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and moved to block EPA from implementing a 90-day administrative stay of the New Source Performance Standards covering methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure. A group of states, plus the District of Columbia and the City of Chicago, have since moved to intervene…
D.C. Circuit Stays Challenges to Oil and Gas Infrastructure Methane Rules
By Freeborn & Peters LLP on
Posted in General Environmental
On May 18th, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the EPA’s request to stay challenges to the New Source Performance Standards regulating methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, pending review of the rule in accordance with President Trump’s Energy Independence Executive Order. EPA announced in April that it intended to reconsider the…