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Recent Environmental Law Articles

27Apr, 2024

New Environmental Laws from the 2024 Maryland Legislative Session

By |Saturday, April 27th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 8, 2024. With 1,052 bills and one resolution passed by the legislature, the governor has already signed 120 bills into law and has until May 28 to sign or veto the remainder of the ...

20Apr, 2024

EPA Designates PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances under Superfund Law

By |Saturday, April 20th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

In a landmark regulatory move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken decisive action to designate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as the Superfund law. This final ...

13Apr, 2024

Federal Government Finalizes New Efficiency Standards for Lightbulbs

By |Saturday, April 13th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

One hundred and forty three years after Thomas Edison received his patent for the incandescent lamp, the most important invention in history, illuminating the way for the universal use of electric light, last Friday the U.S. Department of Energy finalized new energy efficiency standards for ...

6Apr, 2024

2024 IECC is Final After Addressing Preemption Issues

By |Saturday, April 6th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On March 18, 2024, the International Code Council Board of Directors voted to affirm in part and reject in part nine appeals filed by five appellants to a draft of the commercial and residential editions of the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code. The Board expressly ...

30Mar, 2024

Settlement Portends Broad Failure in Attempts to Ban Natural Gas

By |Saturday, March 30th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The City of Berkeley is going to repeal its regulation that prohibits the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings. Last week the California Restaurant Association announced that the group and the City of Berkeley entered into a settlement agreement immediately halting enforcement ...

23Mar, 2024

SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Stay and Venue Now in the 8th Circuit

By |Saturday, March 23rd, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

After this article was posted, on April 4, 2024, the SEC, noting that it has discretion to stay its rules pending judicial review if it finds that “justice so requires,” determined to exercise its discretion to stay the Final Rule pending the completion of judicial ...

16Mar, 2024

EV Charger Data Apocalypse

By |Saturday, March 16th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last week the House of Representatives passed a measure to effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation by the People’s Republic of China on national security grounds. The week before President Biden issued an Executive Order establishing protections for ...

9Mar, 2024

SEC Final Rule on Climate Change and GHG Disclosure

By |Saturday, March 9th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

After this article was posted, on Friday, March 15, 2024, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order granting an Emergency Motion for Administrative Stay and Stay Pending Judicial Review filed by Liberty Energy and Nomad Proppant Services, in one of the nine cases challenging the ...

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