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Stating that it intends to embark on a more widespread effort to combat pest resistance to pesticides and herbicides, EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) has issued two Pesticide Registration Notices (PRNs), one applicable to all conventional pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, bactericides, insecticides, and acaricides) and the second applicable to herbicide-resistant weeds.
The Sierra Club announced that it is suing the EPA and Administrator Scott Pruitt for allegedly failing to respond to requests the group has made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain information about ongoing interactions Pruitt and his staff are having with regulated industries.
In a brief notice in the Federal Register (FR), the EPA announced the start-up of a new program to build cooperative relationships with industry, including the major regulated sectors.
Now that we are about halfway through the 5-year permit cycle for the federal 2015 Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (MSGP), it’s a good idea to turn our attentions toward what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has in store for the 2020 MSGP.
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) and several partner organizations have issued a study showing that 4 out of 10 companies reporting to the CDP fail to capture or report any financial value from strong environmental performance.
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), is requesting documentation from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt about an August 11, 2017, New York Times story that reported that the Agency had deleted all economic benefits related to wetlands in an economic-analysis package of the Agency and Army Corps […]
In a report released September 6, 2017, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that the EPA has implemented 191 of the 318 recommendations the GAO has directed at the Agency since 2007.
President Trump announced that he intends to nominate William Wehrum, a Washington D.C. environmental attorney with a lengthy list of industry clients, to be EPA’s next assistant administrator (AA) for the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). Wehrum is currently a partner in the powerhouse law firm Hunton & Williams where he leads the Administrative […]
On the final day of the StormCon 2017 Surface Water Quality Conference and Expo, a busload of stormwater professionals toured two innovative stormwater management systems recently installed in the City of Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park and the Port of Tacoma’s West Hylebos Pier Log Yard. Both facilities use cutting edge technologies within relatively small footprints […]
Two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit have created uncertainty about the degree to which federal agencies must include indirect environmental effects from projects in environmental analyses required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).