WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - For years, industry groups have complained that the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies give in too easily when sued by environmental groups. Too ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 26, 2017) In mid-October, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced another action in his effort to remake the agency by issuing a directive that aims to stop the practice — ...

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt moved Monday to end a controversial practice known as “sue and settle,” which critics said was used during the Obama administration to cut deals with environmental ...

Training its sights on a favorite mark, the Republican-led House of Representatives in early August fired at the Environmental Protection Agency. In one salvo, the House passed two bills that would ...

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authorizes the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose restrictions relating to chemical substances and/or mixtures as well as ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed to end the longstanding EPA practice of using secretive, often questionable, even deceptive science to support agency policy and ...

When environmental pressure groups can promote their agendas through closed-door rule-making with the Environmental Protection Agency, something has gone seriously wrong with the regulatory process.

Manatt hired former lawyer and EPA adviser Mike Stoker as a consultant at its LA outpost this week. Stoker was a Trump-appointed regional administrator for the EPA until his dismissal in 2020, when he ...

A few years ago, responding to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised its rules of procedure governing administrative enforcement actions to explicitly require ...

US refiners will need to provide ever higher volumes of renewable fuels or pay for ever greater amounts of renewable fuel credits to meet the latest proposed fuel blending standards of the ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matthew Z. Leopold, former general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s nationally recognized environmental practice ...