Shelby L. Dyl

The EPA issued a final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule that announces the biofuel volume targets for 2023 – 2025 and provides a first look into the EPA’s plans for implementing the program moving forward.

Ratification of the Kigali Amendment formally commits the U.S. to a global effort to significantly reduce production and use of HFCs and reinforces the aggressive domestic HFC phasedown begun last year by the AIM Act.

The Supreme Court rejected EPA’s Obama-era Clean Power Plan in a decision that has significant implications both for future attempts by EPA to regulate CO₂ emissions and for other agencies attempting to promulgate rules that implicate “major questions.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has reopened the comment period for its natural gas infrastructure policy statements, giving the hydrogen industry a chance to champion policies that could promote hydrogen infrastructure.

The current bill contains several provisions which would significantly alter the requirements of National Environmental Policy Act review, but it remains to be seen whether those changes will survive House review.

Businesses are encouraged to provide input on EPA’s HFC allowance allocation process during the forthcoming public comment period.

Industries impacted by the AIM Act’s HFC phasedown must prepare to address the costs and other challenges of complying with a new and emerging regulatory framework.

A recent federal court decision serves as a reminder how a lack of attention to seemingly administrative details can have significant legal consequences.

New EPA policy guides regulated parties through environmental compliance challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

EPA existing guidance provides some conceptual anchoring for informing evolving risk management considerations.

The proposal marks another instance of EPA follow-through on its 2019 PFAS Action Plan.