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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) issued a document titled: Defense to Responsibility for Scrap Metal Recycling: TCEQ Findings and Legislative Recommendation Required by House Bill 3224 (“Recommendation”) TCEQ developed this Recommendation as required by House Bill 3224 (“HB 3224”) which was passed during the 86th Texas Legislative Session. HB 3224 required that TCEQ conduct a study to evaluate the possibility of adopting a recyclable materials defense into the ...

Key Takeaways The PFAS litigation landscape – already involving PFAS manufacturers and purchasers of PFAS-containing fluoropolymers and firefighting films – is in the process of expanding, which is putting new companies and new industries in the spotlight, a process that may be accelerated by regulatory developments at the federal level. Public and regulatory attention to the ubiquitous PFAS is also growing in the United States, as reflected by the Biden Administration’s avowed commitment...

Revisiting India’s environmental laws: Is consolidation or implementation the key? April 6, 2021, 9:39 PM IST Nawneet Vibhaw is a partner in the Environmental Law Practice at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. Views are personal. From an era when we hardly cared about environmental costs, our country has graduated to a stage where the regulators are making it mandatory for companies to report as to how they fare on environmental, social and governance ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Most business acquisitions are structured as purchases of assets in order to insulate the buyer from exposure to the liabilities of the seller. While that is generally an effective strategy, there are exceptions and nuances that are explored in this article relative to the purchase of a business located in the State of Ohio.[2] Sales Tax Ohio, like most States, imposes a sales tax, with certain exceptions, upon retail sales made in th...

Watertown Daily Times A barge loaded with capping materials arrives at the in-water remediation site in 2019 on the Grasse River in Massena. (Provided photo — Christopher Lenney, Watertown Daily Times) MASSENA — Environmental remediation work spanning decades is continuing this month on the Grasse River in Massena. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced the in-river work at the Alcoa Aggregation Superfund Site will resume in April. The site is a collection of pr...

Published in NH Business Review 3/26/2021 Under federal environmental laws, purchasers of commercial real estate who conduct an environmental due diligence inquiry may be entitled to rely on safe harbor provisions under federal law limiting otherwise unlimited cleanup response costs should contamination be discovered after purchase.  This is especially significant if contaminated groundwater, for example, has migrated off site. Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and...

MASSENA — Environmental remediation work spanning decades is continuing this month on the Grasse River in Massena. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced the in-river work at the Alcoa Aggregation Superfund Site will resume in April. The site is a collection of properties owned and maintained by the former Aluminum Company of America, Alcoa, which changed its name to Arconic in 2016, and split into Howmet Aerospace Inc. and a subsidiary, Arconic Corporation, last yea...

Agriculture your username 2 hours ago The respective environmental protection oversight agencies of the United States and the State of Illinois filed a lawsuit against two subsidiaries of XTRA Inc., XTRA Intermodal Inc. and X-L-Co. Inc., for violations of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) on Tuesday. The Southern District of Illinois complaint seeks several forms of relief relating to releases and threatened releases of hazardous substanc...

Key Points On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Michael Regan as the next EPA Administrator. Although Regan and most of the Biden-Harris administration’s other high-level EPA officials have fairly limited private sector experience, they are known as seasoned, pragmatic leaders who bring substantive expertise to their roles. Over the next four years, expect Regan’s team to oversee significant regulatory action and increased enforcement across all media, all while prioritiz...

Friday, March 12, 2021 On February 8, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a petition seeking a rule reversing EPA’s 1991 Bevill regulatory determination excluding phosphogypsum and process wastewater from phosphoric acid production (process wastewater) from hazardous waste regulation under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The petition also urges EPA to promulgate regulations under RCRA Subtitle C governing the safe treatmen...