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October 30, 2024
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Presidential Election Implications on Methane and VOC Regulations for the Oil and Gas Industry
on methane and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions—was deemed a success by the EPA in its efforts to curb emissions from the oil and gas industry.
March 7, 2024
|6 min read
Louisiana Decision Undercuts EPA Title VI Efforts on Environmental Justice
Louisiana or its State agencies in civil rights cases under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This decision is likely to serve as a template for other states to
oppose the EPA’s use of disparate impact analyses when advancing environmental justice policies and investigations.
December 4, 2023
|4 min read
EPA Revises Guidance on Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis
Regulatory Analysis (Guidance). The draft Guidance updates EPA’s original environmental justice (EJ) technical guidance published in 2016. The Guidance is an
internal EPA policy that outlines and refines how EPA should evaluate EJ concerns in regulatory actions. While it is an internal-facing document, th...Read more
March 1, 2022
|7 min read
FERC Now To Consider Climate Change and Environmental Justice When Approving Natural Gas Facilities
approval framework will consider downstream environmental effects from the use of transported natural gas—including putative impacts on climate change
and environmental justice communities. There are, however, legal questions regarding FERC’s expanded view of its authority.
November 18, 2021
|4 min read
EPA to Affirmatively Enforce Title VI
authority” to use Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to address disparate impacts. This has significant implications for entities seeking federal environmental
permits or funding. Questions exist, however, regarding whether the EPA’s—or any federal agency’s—statutory authority under Title VI is so broad.
October 13, 2021
|8 min read
An EJ Roundup: EPA Implementation of Environmental Justice Is Taking Shape
In its early days, the Biden administration issued the (Executive Order 14008).
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