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Superfund Me: A High-Level Overview of Climate Change Superfund Bills

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A Brief History of Federal Superfund Legislation In 1980, Congress enacted The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), more commonly known as Superfund. This monumental piece of legislation constructed a new tax on chemical and petroleum industries.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S. 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5 miles long and is intended to carry crude oil. Jacobson v. Clack , No.

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Biogas’ Toxic Relationship with CAFOs: How Reliance on this Fuel Source Engenders Harmful Animal Farming Practices

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In 2017, several groups filed suit against the EPA for promulgating a rule to exempt CAFOs emissions from reporting requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA promulgated the challenged rule in 2019 in response to the Ninth Circuit’s issuance of a writ of mandamus in 2017. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

On March 1, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a final Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule promulgated in October 2017 that continued and expanded a statutory interim prohibition on diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in children’s toys and child care articles at concentrations greater than 0.1% 14560 (Mar.

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

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as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. Now we get it…that’s the whole point of regulatory deform!

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