On August 18, 2017, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) formally proposed regulations providing additional requirements for the management of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material (TENORM) waste, making Montana the latest state to propose such regulations. The proposed regulations come on the heels of its neighbor, North Dakota, adopting new rules with TENORM
Oil and Gas
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…