PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

PAEP presents these awards to Pennsylvanians who made unique and creative contributions to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. The awards were presented at the PAEP annual conference in State College.

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MGKF Law

JULY 14, 2024

25, 2024), that arranger liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) requires a potentially responsible party to have knowledge that the waste it discards is hazardous.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 27, 2023

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. is best known for setting forth a comprehensive mechanism to cleanup hazardous waste sites under a restoration-based approach and for imposing liability on potentially responsible parties. 9601, et seq.,

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

RCRA calls for a corrective action permit to address releases of hazardous constituents from old solid waste management units at a facility that had “interim status” or a conventional permit to store, treat, or dispose hazardous waste. The University then sued in state court on a variety of common law theories.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In addition to causing untold damage to homes and businesses and disrupting the lives of millions of residents in the process, Hurricane Harvey also provided a clear view of the risks industrialized coastal communities face from the release of toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes during extreme weather events. We have already. Vermont. ,

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MGKF Law

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Cleanup , Contamination , Cost Recovery , Groundwater , Landfill , Mining , Missouri , Remediation , Removal , Statute of Limitations , Superfund , Waste MFA Incorporated , No. 22-05021-CV-SW-WBG, 2024 WL 4326815 (W.D. 27, 2024), Magistrate Judge W.

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MGKF Law

MAY 24, 2021

20-382 (May 24, 2021), the eagerly anticipated opinion on whether consent decrees and administrative orders that do not expressly resolve liability for claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) nevertheless give rise to a claim for contribution under Section 113(f)(3) of CERCLA.

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Capaccio

MAY 21, 2024

PFOA and PFOS: Hazardous Substances In addition to setting the most stringent limits on PFOA and PFOS, the EPA designated these two pervasive PFAS as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also referred to as Superfund.

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The Energy Law

JULY 16, 2008

In 1997, DuPont and ConocoPhillips sued the United States pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), alleging entitlement to reimbursement of costs expended cleaning up hazardous waste from fifteen sites previously owned by the government during World Wars I and II, and the Korean (..)

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, eco-labels illustrate powerful tools of consumer-driven environmental protection and show that green-washing can be stopped through soft law approaches. to avoid wasting raw materials, and to minimize the impact on the climate and the natural environment.” International Food Law and Policy. ISO standards. ,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

However, under existing law, those formations likely could not be used for carbon storage. The INVEST in America Act (also known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill) that just passed the Senate could change that if it becomes law. portion of the Cascadia basin but, due to a quirk of federal law, that is not currently possible.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Thus, EPA’s analysis relies on several additional factors: Other federal financial responsibility requirements. State law requirements. EPA reviewed current industry practices for operational and decommissioning materials and wastes to evaluate the types of hazardous materials used and released by the electric power sector.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

He will describe how the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, new programs have been established to inventory and properly close orphaned wells. The law allocates $4.7 Demonstrating a commitment to environmental responsibility, Plants and Goodwin have partnered with Zefiro Methane Corp.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2022

Every day, the Olympus team works to produce natural gas in the most efficient and environmentally responsible manner possible. Mitchell Hescox & Kim Anderson, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN] -- IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry - By Rev.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Against the backdrop of a global economy that has continued to grow, the explosive growth in sustainable industries marked a paradigm shift, with environmentally responsible practices proving to be not just a corporate responsibility but a lucrative business strategy.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

EPA is developing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) “hazardous substances” for Spring 2022. materials and waste streams, including ensuring destruction technologies do not contribute to the release of PFAS contamination.

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

On December 26, 2024 , New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Climate Change Superfund Act (the Climate Superfund Act or the Act), which seeks to impose retroactive fees on fossil fuel producers for their disproportionately large contributions to negative climate change impacts.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

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. Navy stemming from a toxic waste and ammunition disposal site. The enactment of S.259,

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 9, 2022

There are few, if any laws or for that matter even rules in this space, but from our own proprietary ESG disclosure standard, we have specific guidelines for energy. As opposed to the renewable energy portfolio standards adopted for utilities in many U.S. Additionally, the government disputes over all electric building codes (.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

In Part 2B of Greenberg Traurig Environmental Shareholder David Mandelbaum’s conversation with William Hengemihle of FTI Consulting on Superfund allocation disputes under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the federal program for cleaning up sites contaminated by historic operations, they discuss fault (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

These facilities released or otherwise managed more than 700,000 pounds of production-related PFAS waste during 2020. Effective July 13, the law banned local governments and state agencies from using class B firefighting foam containing intentionally added PFAS for training or testing purposes.[[N: The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In addition, the infrastructure law provides $100 million for the Pollution Prevention Act grants to states for programs to promote businesses’ use of source reduction techniques. New California Laws Ban PFAS in Children’s Products and Food Packaging and Establish Chemical Disclosure Requirements for Cookware. California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. Congress shares power with federal agencies. The doctrine is named after the case in which it was first articulated.)

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. The law would also require guidance on alternative foams and equipment that do not contain PFAS. EPA Granted More Time for Submission of Brief in Challenges to Methylene Chloride Risk Evaluation.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Designating PFAS as a hazardous substance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) would jumpstart the identification and remedial investigation of sites impacted by PFAS. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In his Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis signed on January 20, President Biden identified this rule as one EPA must review and, "as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," consider proposing its suspension, revision, or rescission.[[N:

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