States Increase Renewable Requirements Without Federal Standard
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How the EU’s Product Stewardship Regulations Affect Global Supply Chains
The EU’s Approach to Product Stewardship
While the European Union (EU) does not have any legal principle specific to product stewardship, it has applied the full range of EU environmental law principles to create a comprehensive framework for product stewardship. These principles include the prevention and precautionary principles, sustainability, extended producer responsibility, supply chain responsibility, and corporate social responsibility. In addition, product stewardship is a key instrument in the EU’s latest strategic environmental focus areas:…
BLM Releases Draft Environmental Assessment for Lifting Coal Leasing Moratorium
Expanded Produced Water Discharge Options – On the Horizon?
House Conducts PFAS Hearing
On March 15, 2019, the House Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change held a hearing titled, “Protecting Americans at Risk of PFAS Contamination & Exposure.” The hearing examined approaches to eliminate or reduce environmental and health risks to workers and the public from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).…
EPA Determines Revisions to Federal Regulation of E&P Wastes Unwarranted
Decision Vacating DOI Valuation Rule May Impact Future Rulemakings
Environmental Groups Sue EPA to Develop Worst-Case Hazardous Substance Spill Rules
IRS to Seek Comment on Key Issues to be Interpreted in Section 45Q Tax Credit
The Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service have released Notice 2019-32 seeking comment on key issues to be interpreted in the Section 45Q carbon oxide sequestration tax credit. Congress significantly enhanced the Section 45Q tax credit in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, increasing the credit from $10/ton for CO2 used as a tertiary injectant (i.e., to produce oil or gas) to $35/ton; and increasing the credit for CO2 geologically stored but not used…