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Environmental Groups Challenge California's Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations For Being Too Lenient

On 2 June 2026, environmental groups Oceana, National Resources Defense Council, and Californians Against Waste Foundation filed a petition in San Francisco Superior Court challenging regulations adopted by CalRecycle...

United States Environment

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K&L Gates LLP

Pollution Exclusion Survives Challenge In Equine Environmental Coverage Dispute

A federal court in California examined whether pollution exclusions in commercial insurance policies bar coverage for environmental claims arising from equine operations.

United States Environment

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Wiley Rein

California Environmental Law & Policy Update

Environmental groups push for statewide regulation of polluted stormwater runoff from commercial properties, while President Trump announces funding for a controversial coal-export terminal and the EPA launches an initiative to accelerate superfund site cleanups. California's Air Resources Board approves major changes to its cap-and-invest program, creating a $4 billion decarbonization fund amid concerns from climate advocates.

United States Environment

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Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis

Environmental Groups Challenge California’s SB 54 Plastics Regulations

Three major environmental organizations have filed suit against CalRecycle, alleging that final regulations implementing California's SB 54 Plastic Pollution Prevention Act improperly weaken the statute's plastic-reduction and recycling mandates through regulatory carve-outs.

United States Environment

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Jones Day

New Lawsuit Challenges California’s SB 54 Plastic Regulations—Claiming The Regulations Do Not Go Far Enough

United States Environment

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Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP

EPA Publishes Battery Recycling Best Practices Report, Federal EPR Framework To Follow

United States Environment

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Shook, Hardy & Bacon

WOTUS Snapshots: Sailing Shifting Seas

United States Energy

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Nossaman LLP

EPA Launches Superfund Solutions Initiative To Accelerate Cleanups

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Michael Mims Discusses Methane Monitoring Risks For Landfill Operators

United States Environment

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Liskow & Lewis

Basel Convention Parties To Review Options For Addressing Waste Textiles At OEWG-15

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Evolving State Regulation Of Biosolids Recycling In The PFAS Era

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

What Businesses Need To Know About Emerging PFAS Regulations

United States Environment

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Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP

Challenge To Oregon’s Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility Law Races To Trial While Other Legal Battles Brew

United States Environment

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Arnold & Porter

PFAS Regulatory Alert: EPA Rolls Back RCRA Proposed Rule On “Hazardous Waste” But Does Not Disturb Proposed RCRA Rule On PFAS

United States Environment

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Crowell & Moring LLP

DOJ And CFTC Bring New Insider Trading Cases In Prediction Markets

United States Finance

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ambiguity Of Measurement Conditions For Relevant Chemical Property Leads To Federal Circuit Affirming Noninfringement Of Epoprostenol Patents

United States IP

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Duane Morris LLP

Foreign Agent Crackdown Continues: Chinese Operative In NY Convicted

United States Government

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Minnesota’s New Cannabis And Hemp Laws

United States Government

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Harris Sliwoski

Court Rejects Chapter 93A Claim For Lack Of Massachusetts Nexus In Kahoot! v. CPDLive

United States Litigation

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

California SB 54 Is Here: What Companies Using Plastic Packaging Need To Do Now

California’s Senate Bill 54 (“SB 54”) requires producers of single-use packaging and plastic food service ware (collectively, “Covered Materials”) to reduce the use of such materials and ensure full recyclability...

United States Environment

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Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP

SB 54 And 343 Update And Compliance

California's SB 54 imposes complex extended producer responsibility requirements on single-use packaging and food service ware, with initial registration deadlines set for June 1, 2026.

United States Environment

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Steptoe LLP

California's Trash Talk

Under the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which aims to make textile and apparel producers responsible for the cost of consumer textile and apparel waste, all producers of covered products...

United States Environment

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Maryland Finalizes First Set Of EPR Regulations For Packaging And Paper Products

Maryland's extended producer responsibility program for packaging and paper products reaches a critical milestone with new implementing regulations taking effect May 25, 2026. Producers face imminent compliance deadlines, including a May 31 simplified supply report submission and July 1 registration requirements.

United States Environment

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Holland & Knight

EPA Rolls Back PFAS Regulations, States Fill The Gap

United States Environment

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Ballard Spahr LLP

California DPR Announces Proposed New Rule To Regulate Pesticide-Treated Seeds

United States Environment

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Bergeson & Campbell

Ninth Circuit Directs EPA To Consider Whether DecaBDE Rule Should Extend To Solid Waste Disposal, Wastewater Treatment, And Biosolids

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Navigating The Greenwashing Maze: The Multiple Pathways Of Risk To Consider For Environmental Marketing Claims

United States Consumer

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Arnold & Porter

Are Microplastics And Nanoplastics The Next Emerging Contaminant Of Concern?

United States Environment

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McLane Middleton, Professional Association

Decommissioning Security For Data Centers And Other Commercial Development: Five Issues Policymakers Should Consider

United States Real Estate

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Taft Stettinius & Hollister

EPA Withdraws Proposed Rule That Would Have Expanded The Definition Of Hazardous Waste For Purposes Of RCRA Corrective Action

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Developing A National Compliance And Reporting Strategy To Comply With Extended Producer Responsibility Obligations (Video)

United States Compliance

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K&L Gates LLP

Environmental Highlights From Virginia’s 2026 Legislative Session

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

EPR Compliance: Your Questions Answered

United States Environment

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

EPA Withdraws Proposed Rule That Would Have Expanded The Definition Of Hazardous Waste For Purposes Of RCRA Corrective Action

The EPA's withdrawal of its 2024 proposed rule raises critical questions about the scope of corrective action authority at hazardous waste facilities and the regulatory treatment of emerging contaminants like PFAS.

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Developing A National Compliance And Reporting Strategy To Comply With Extended Producer Responsibility Obligations (Video)

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs are rapidly expanding across states, creating new compliance requirements, financial exposure, and data-driven reporting obligations...

United States Compliance

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K&L Gates LLP

Environmental Highlights From Virginia’s 2026 Legislative Session

During the 2026 legislative session, Virginia's General Assembly passed an avalanche of new environmental legislation. The Assembly introduced over 200 bills related to the environment, with data centers...

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

EPR Compliance: Your Questions Answered

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws are now active in seven U.S. states, requiring producers to fund recycling programs and ensure packaging recyclability.

United States Environment

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

California's Rapidly Incoming SB 343 And SB 54: Anti-Greenwashing Laws Going Too Far?

United States Environment

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Steptoe LLP

Stranger Things In The RCRA Hazardous Waste Regulations

Federal judges have described RCRA's hazardous waste regulatory program using colorful metaphors like "Cloud Cuckoo Land" and "Alice in Wonderland," with one judge even suggesting the rule writers "ought to go to jail." This article examines the top contenders for the most confusing aspects of RCRA regulations and explores how regulatory reform could significantly improve implementation of these notoriously complex environmental rules.

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

EPA Seeks Comment On Interim PFAS Destruction And Disposal Guidance

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 28, 2026, the availability of an update to the April 16, 2024, interim guidance on the destruction and disposal of perfluoroalkyl...

United States Environment

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Bergeson & Campbell

How EPA Reviews Mixed Metal Oxides Used In Battery Cathode Active Materials

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a comprehensive framework for evaluating mixed metal oxides used in lithium-ion batteries under the Toxic Substances Control Act, establishing standardized risk assessments...

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

California’s Packaging EPR Deadlines Are Approaching: What Producers Need To Know About Source Reduction Reporting

Despite delayed implementing regulations, Circular Action Alliance (CAA), the producer responsibility organization (PRO) responsible for administering California’s packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR)...

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Washington Ecology Releases Draft 2026 Upland Finfish Hatchery Permit For Public Comment: Increased Reporting And Compliance Detail, No Major Changes To Core Effluent Limits

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

PFAS On Your Hands? EPA Weighs In With Updated Interim Guidance On The Destruction And Disposal Of PFAS Substances

United States Environment

AP

Arnold & Porter

TSCA PFAS Reporting Postponed Again

United States Environment

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

PFAS In The EU: A Regulatory Turning Point

European Union Environment

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A&O Shearman

Microplastics, MAHA, And The Evolving Politics Of Exposure Science

United States Environment

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Bergeson & Campbell

EPA Places Microplastics, PFAS, Pharmaceuticals, And DBPs On Draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List

United States Environment

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Crowell & Moring LLP

EPA Proposes To Eliminate Paper Hazardous Waste Manifests

United States Environment

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Holland & Knight

New York's Two-Track Climate Reporting Regime: From Measurement To Mandatory Disclosure

United States Environment

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Jones Day

MassDEP Reports: More Progress Needed To Achieve Statewide Solid Waste Goals

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Textile EPR Update: California Selects Landbell USA As PRO As U.S. And Global Requirements Expand

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Strategic Environmental Compliance Audits: Key Benefits And Practical Considerations

United States Environment

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Bracewell

Fusion Update: NRC Publishes Proposed Regulatory Framework For Fusion Machines

United States Environment

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Foley Hoag LLP

MassDEP Seeks Comment On Revisions To Longstanding Noise Policy

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

New York’s Expanding Environmental Regulatory Framework: A 2026 Outlook

United States Environment

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Holland & Knight

Recent Federal Developments For March 2026

United States Energy

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Bergeson & Campbell

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Foley Hoag LLP

CCRs Dodge A Hazardous Waste Bullet: EPA Regulates Under RCRA Subtitle D

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Foley Hoag LLP

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