Bloomberg LawDrinking Water Congress Close to Striking Landmark PFAS Deal, Chairman Saysbloombergenvironment.com - David Schultz Congress’ two chambers have largely resolved their differences over which provisions relating to “forever chemicals” should stay in an annual defense …
Bloomberg LawPesticides EPA Defends ‘Secret Science’ Rule to House Democratsbloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee An EPA official defended the agency’s proposed “secret science” rule, but declined to answer questions about the basis for the rule, which has drawn …
Bloomberg LawEPA EPA Official Laments ‘Scarce Resources’ in Criminal Enforcementbloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer The EPA and its state counterparts are too short-staffed to adequately police environmental crimes around the country, an agency official said. Mike …
Bloomberg LawRichard Neal Draft Clean Energy Tax Package Coming Soon, House Dems Saybloombergenvironment.com - Kaustuv Basu, Colin Wilhelm A green energy discussion draft under development by Democratic tax writers in the House could be released as early as next week, lawmakers …
Bloomberg LawImmigration Environmental Groups Challenge Border Wall on Multiple Frontsbloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer The Sierra Club faced off with government lawyers in court this week to fight the U.S.-Mexico border wall backed by President Donald Trump, the …
Bloomberg LawFossil Fuels INSIGHT: What We Can (and Should) Do to Address Climate Change in the Next 30 Yearsbloombergenvironment.com - Bradford Cornell To address the world’s climate crisis, we must embrace equal parts realism and optimism. The realism kicks in when you accept the reality that despite …
Bloomberg LawPesticides Arizona Prepares to Lose Federal Water Protectionsbloombergenvironment.com - Brenna Goth The vast majority of Arizona waters now regulated by the state under the federal Clean Water Act could be excluded from protection under the Trump …
Bloomberg LawPesticides EPA Seeks to Narrow Restrictions on Class of Pesticidesbloombergenvironment.com - Adam Allington The EPA is seeking to narrow spraying buffer zones and roll back other measures designed to protect people and the environment from pesticides that …
Bloomberg LawWild Horses Wild Horses Removed, Sterilized Without Public Input, Suit Saysbloombergenvironment.com - Perry Cooper A federal government plan for managing wild horses in northern California undermines public participation and threatens the health and viability of …
Bloomberg LawOzone Industry Weighs Taking Ozone Pollution Case to Supreme Courtbloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer Energy companies and business groups are considering asking the Supreme Court to review Obama-era standards for ozone pollution. The U.S. Chamber of …
Bloomberg LawClimate High Water Routs Inland Towns in Sign of Climate Change to Comebloombergenvironment.com - Jennifer Kay In Louisiana’s blueprint for managing the impacts of climate change, the cities of New Roads and Gonzales would seem well placed as refuges for …
Bloomberg LawRenewable Energy INSIGHT: Optimizing a More Flexible Power Gridbloombergenvironment.com - Eric Lustgarten Despite being one of the largest machines in the world—with a record electricity generation high of 4,178 million megawatt hours in 2018 — the U.S.’s …
Bloomberg LawData Protection INSIGHT: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest in Selecting a Data Protection Officerbloombergenvironment.com - Christopher Schmidt, Qian Li Loke, Luis Alberto Montezuma The appointment of a data protection officer is key to organizational efforts to achieve operational compliance in data protection. However, as …
Bloomberg LawEconomics Fed Sounds Alarm on Climate Change’s Harm to Global Economybloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee Climate change makes investments riskier, blunts workers’ productivity, and shakes up monetary stability, economists told the Federal Reserve Bank of …
Bloomberg LawPesticides EPA Watchdog Has Few Tools in Clash With Agency, Scholars Saybloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee The Environmental Protection Agency is likely to prevail in a tense stalemate with its internal watchdog unless Congress decides to take up the …
Bloomberg LawCoal Judge Halts Arch Coal Mine Expansion in Coloradobloombergenvironment.com - Tripp Baltz Arch Coal’s expansion of an underground coal mine in western Colorado has been halted by a federal judge, who ruled an Interior Department agency …
Bloomberg LawClimate Senate Bill Would Extend Bank Stress Tests to Climate Riskbloombergenvironment.com - Dean Scott What are banks and big financial institutions doing to protect investors from mammoth risks to rising sea levels and other climate change impacts? Not …
Bloomberg LawLaw Supreme Court’s Questions Could Scramble Strategy in Water Casebloombergenvironment.com - Ellen M. Gilmer, David Schultz Unexpected dynamics in a Nov. 6 Supreme Court oral argument might add pressure for parties to settle a high-stakes water pollution case, but the …
Bloomberg LawRenewable Energy INSIGHT: Trump’s Environmental Legacy Could Be the Rise of U.S. Offshore Windbloombergenvironment.com - Sarah E. Hunt, Charles Hernick When President Donald Trump took office, he pledged to make America a powerhouse by embracing an all-of-the-above approach to energy. While the …
Bloomberg LawFlood Insurance FEMA Pushes Back Its Overhaul of Flood Insurance Rates (1)bloombergenvironment.com - David Schultz FEMA is missing a self-imposed deadline to modernize the way it calculates risk when issuing flood insurance policies, another setback for the …
Bloomberg LawCleaning NASA Cleaning Up Toxic Legacy in Florida as New Tenants Move Inbloombergenvironment.com - Sylvia Carignan NASA is still working to clean up the toxic legacy of its space launch program, even as it shifts into a role as landlord for commercial space …
Bloomberg LawGreenhouse Gas Emissions Nine European Countries Seek to End Airline Tax Exemptionsbloombergenvironment.com - Joe Kirwin A coalition of nine European Union countries signed a joint statement Nov. 7 asking the EU to end airline sector tax exemptions to help reduce …
Bloomberg LawMichigan Politics Michigan High Court to Hear Challenge to ‘Buy Local’ Power Rulebloombergenvironment.com - Alex Ebert Michigan’s largest electricity consumers will make their case Nov. 7 at the Michigan Supreme Court that a state agency shouldn’t enforce a utility …
Bloomberg LawVirginia Virginia’s New Democratic Majority to Make Environment a Prioritybloombergenvironment.com - Keshia Clukey Democratic control of Virginia’s Legislature could be a boon for clean energy and environmental policy in the Commonwealth but may prove challenging …
Bloomberg LawLaw M&A Slowdown Flips Script on Biggest Law Firms Beating the Restbloombergenvironment.com - Roy Strom Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom. Today, we look at how smaller firms appear to …
Bloomberg LawFluoride Public Trust in Tap Water May Hinge on Fluoride Link to Child IQbloombergenvironment.com - Pat Rizzuto A federal agency’s preliminary finding that high concentrations of fluoride may decrease children’s IQ will, if finalized, be hard to explain to the …
Bloomberg LawIcon version of the Flipboard logoEPA EPA Watchdog Says Agency Official Isn’t Cooperatingbloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee The EPA’s internal watchdog released a formal complaint Nov. 6 claiming Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s key adviser has consistently rebuffed …
Bloomberg LawWater West Virginia Tainted Tap Water Class Included Judge Who OK’d Itbloombergenvironment.com - Martina Barash Class status for water utility customers in West Virginia who were allegedly exposed to pollutants in their water supply must be vacated because the …
Bloomberg LawEPA EPA Seeks to Speed Up Environmental Dispute Processbloombergenvironment.com - Stephen Lee The EPA said Nov. 6 it wants to speed up permit disputes that go before its Environmental Appeals Board. The Environmental Protection Agency’s …
