Environmental Enforcement
Environmental enforcement includes efforts by federal and state governments to ensure compliance with environmental laws through fines and other penalties. We include environmental enforcement and environmental policy articles as well as stories that specifically focus on enforcement of environmental laws ranging from the storage of hazardous waste to the control of GHG emissions. Stories focus on government organizations such as the EPA’s enforcement efforts as well as challenges by corporations to environmental enforcement regulation.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: G8 Summit, Wastewater Treatment, Electricity Capacity Prices
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
President Obama and G8 Summit world leaders ...
The Many Moving Pieces of California’s Cap and Trade Program
The calendar says May 2012, so what does that mean for California's attempts to implement a first-in-the-nation, economy-wide Cap and Trade Program? ...
Current Wastewater Methods Fail to Protect Public from Frack Water, NRDC Says
Hydraulic fracturing's huge output of polluted wastewater is putting drinking water supplies, rivers, streams, and groundwater at risk, primarily because state and federal regulations have ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: California-Quebec ETS, Energy Efficiency, Canada Emissions Target
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
The California Air Resources Board released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to the carbon market ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Australia Carbon Tax, Japanese Nuclear, More Fracking Rules
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 12 items.
The Australian government's preliminary list of ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Clean Energy Ministerial, NYC Zoning, EU ETS, Feed-in Tariffs
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The 23-government Clean Energy Ministerial and the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron, Mexico Low-Carbon Bill, Oil Market Speculation
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The new Brazilian prosecutor of the case ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Controls, China Aviation Plan, CVS Settlement
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The Obama administration has set national standards ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Vehicle Emissions, Natural Gas, TSCA, Petroleum Reserve
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
Canada issued greenhouse gas emissions rules that ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
India's environment minister called the EU aviation ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels, Herbicide Ruling, MA Energy Bill
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
Six biofuel trade associations filed a ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Chemicals, Refinery Agreement, Loan Program Revived
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The California Department of Toxic Substance ...
EPA Proposes Carbon Regulations for New Power Plants
The EPA has released its first proposed Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants.
Under the Carbon Pollution Standard for New ...
Supreme Court Decision Likely to Change Clean Water Act Enforcement
On March 21, 2012, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a US Environmental Protection Agency administrative order issued under ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar Tariffs
Energy analysts say that the risk of the aviation sector exiting the EU cap-and-trade scheme is being priced into the market, and the impact could ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track
The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...
FTC Increasing Scrutiny of Green Claims, Former Director Says
The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying its scrutiny of marketers' green claims, according to an attorney and former FTC employee.
In a column for CorporateComplianceInsights.com, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Tests, MATS Hearing, Ballast Water, FOIA on Keystone
A first round of EPA tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in Dimock, Penn., near natural gas drilling operations of Cabot Oil ...
Coke Wastewater Straining City Resources, Officials Claim
Wastewater from a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Northampton, Mass., is becoming costly for public facilities to treat, leading the city to investigate revisions to treatment ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety Rules, Ohio Fracking Law
Coal-reliant Poland vetoed a European Union roadmap for cutting the bloc's carbon emissions by 80 percent by mid-century. All 26 other EU countries supported the ...
