By Jeryl L. Olson, Patrick D. Joyce, Kay R. Bonza, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) released a final memorandum on “Guidance on Plantwide Applicability Limitation Provisions Under the New Source Review Regulations.”
The guidance memorandum is, according to EPA, intended to
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By Jeryl L. Olson, Rebecca A. Davis, Andrew H. Perellis, Patrick D. Joyce, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) has released a pre-publication copy of its proposed amendments to the Air Toxics Standards for Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters at Major Source Facilities, 40
Continue Reading EPA Proposes Amendments to Air Toxics Standards for Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters NESHAP
By Jeryl L. Olson and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: The EPA has posted an interesting flyer on “Our Nation’s Air,” the Status and Trends Through 2018.
According to the EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, “one of America’s great but untold environmental success stories is that we have made – and continue to make – great improvements in our air
Continue Reading U.S. EPA Indicates that Air Pollution Trends Show Cleaner Air, Growing Economy
By Andrew H. Perellis, Jeryl L. Olson, Patrick D. Joyce, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: Consistent with guidance issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in March 2018, the Agency has now proposed to codify changes to the New Source Review (NSR) applicability regulations to clarify the requirements that apply to sources proposing to
Continue Reading EPA Proposes Revisions to Clarify New Source Review Permitting Process – Updating “Project Emissions Accounting”
By Jeryl L. Olson, Kay R. Bonza, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: In another example of business-friendly regulatory agency actions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just rescinded the “Seitz Memo” associated with the “Once In, Always In” policy affecting the classification of certain major sources of hazardous air pollutants under section 112 of the Clean
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By Craig B. Simonsen and Jeryl L. Olson
Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses and industries that had been impacted by the EPA’s HFCs rule may wish to monitor EPA’s response to this opinion carefully.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals this week, by a split three-judge panel, vacated part of a 2015 EPA rule intended to target greenhouse gas emissions, saying
Continue Reading You Can’t Do That! DC Circuit Vacates EPA’s HFCs Rule
By Jeryl L. Olson, Patrick D. Joyce, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a final rule to further delay the effective date of EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) Amendments an additional 20 months to allow the agency to conduct a reconsideration proceeding.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to strengthen
Continue Reading U.S. EPA Delay’s Effectiveness of Obama Era Chemical Safety Regulation
By Patrick D. Joyce, Jeryl L. Olson, and Craig B. Simonsen
Seyfarth Synopsis: With significant objection from Industry, EPA has issued its Final Report on whether hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under certain circumstances.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published its controversial final report on “Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from
Continue Reading EPA Releases Final Report on Impacts on Drinking Water from Hydraulic Fracturing
By Kay R. Bonza and Craig B. Simonsen
Synopsis: EPA’s recent finding paves the way for the Agency to develop standards regulating greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Businesses in the commercial jet manufacturing and aviation transportation industry should watch this rulemaking closely, as it will affect environmental compliance costs and may have an impact on the cost of capital purchases
Continue Reading EPA Determines that Aircraft Emissions Contribute to Air Pollution and Climate Change
By Robert S. Winner, Andrew L. Berg, and Ashley M. Hymel
Seyfarth Synopsis: In this edition of Seyfarth Shaw’s Energy Insights Newsletter, our Energy and Clean Technologies team covers important developments in Q1 2016 for the energy industry including 1) the fate of the Clean Power Plan and potential impact on U.S. compliance with the Paris Agreement,
Continue Reading Energy Insights: An Update from the First Quarter of 2016