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The Federal Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) issued a major decision in the ever growing debate regarding action on climate change. The court is allowing states to proceed with a suit against power companies that calls for a court order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming.
Eight states (California, Connecticut
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The Obama Administration announced it would review the revised ozone standard of .75 ppb that was previously established by the Bush Administration. The Obama Administration has said if they decide to revise the ozone standard below .75 ppb they will announce it by December of 2009 and finalize the standard by August 2010.
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Small businesses are deeply concerned with the economic impacts of the proposed cap-and-trade legislation currently pending in Congress. Although small businesses will not be covered by the cap, if a price is placed on carbon, small businesses will feel the economic impact through energy price increases. This is particularly true in the Midwest which is heavily
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While the credit crisis has cooled of the commercial and industrial real estate market, transactions continue to occur at a slower pace. Allocation of risk and liability for environmental contamination is an important consideration in transactions that involve properties in which manufacturing, transportation or other commercial businesses operated.
In allocating responsibility for environmental clean up
A discussed in prior posts, the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (ERAC) has taken an aggressive respond to deadlines imposed by the Ohio Legislature compelling ERAC to render decisions in 339 appeals in a matter of months. It issued orders in all pending appeals canceling prior hearings and establishing an expedited hearing format that consists of the
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The New York Times reported on the controversy surrounding the energy performance of LEED certified buildings. Studies have shown that many LEED building receiving certification actually poorly perform when it comes to energy efficiency.
The Article points to a federal building in Youngstown, Ohio which would have failed to obtain U.S. EPA’s Energy Star
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More rumblings that EPA may move forward with regulation of greenhouse gases under its existing authority under the Clean Air Act. It appears EPA has started to rattle its saber in an effort to re-energize the cap-and-trade proposal currently in the Senate.
As reported in BNA and referenced in Foley & Hoag’s blog, EPA is rumored to be moving forward with application of New Source Review requirements to large sources of greenhouse gas emissions. BNA reported that EPA would likely set a trigger level of 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (other greenhouse
The Ohio General Assembly included in the state budget a series of deadlines for issuing decisions in environmental appeals. (See prior post) The deadlines apply to the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (ERAC) which hears administrative appeals for hundreds of Ohio EPA and other state Agency actions. Here are the deadlines imposed on ERAC:
The commission (ERAC) shall