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.

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: G8 Summit, Wastewater Treatment, Electricity Capacity Prices

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: G8 Summit, Wastewater Treatment, Electricity Capacity PricesHere'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 ...

May 21, 2012

The Many Moving Pieces of California’s Cap and Trade Program

The Many Moving Pieces of California’s Cap and Trade ProgramThe 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? ...

May 21, 2012

Current Wastewater Methods Fail to Protect Public from Frack Water, NRDC Says

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 ...

May 14, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: California-Quebec ETS, Energy Efficiency, Canada Emissions Target

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: California-Quebec ETS, Energy Efficiency, Canada Emissions TargetHere'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 ...

May 11, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Australia Carbon Tax, Japanese Nuclear, More Fracking Rules

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Australia Carbon Tax, Japanese Nuclear, More Fracking RulesHere'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 ...

May 7, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Clean Energy Ministerial, NYC Zoning, EU ETS, Feed-in Tariffs

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Clean Energy Ministerial, NYC Zoning, EU ETS, Feed-in TariffsHere'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 ...

April 30, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron, Mexico Low-Carbon Bill, Oil Market Speculation

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Chevron, Mexico Low-Carbon Bill, Oil Market SpeculationHere'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 ...

April 23, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Controls, China Aviation Plan, CVS Settlement

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Controls, China Aviation Plan, CVS SettlementHere'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 ...

April 20, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Vehicle Emissions, Natural Gas, TSCA, Petroleum Reserve

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Vehicle Emissions, Natural Gas, TSCA, Petroleum ReserveHere'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 ...

April 16, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf SheenHere'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 ...

April 13, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels, Herbicide Ruling, MA Energy Bill

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Biofuels, Herbicide Ruling, MA Energy BillHere'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 ...

April 11, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Chemicals, Refinery Agreement, Loan Program Revived

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Chemicals, Refinery Agreement, Loan Program RevivedHere'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 ...

April 9, 2012

EPA Proposes Carbon Regulations for New Power Plants

EPA Proposes Carbon Regulations for New Power PlantsThe EPA has released its first proposed Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. Under the Carbon Pollution Standard for New ...

March 28, 2012

Supreme Court Decision Likely to Change Clean Water Act Enforcement

Supreme Court Decision Likely to Change Clean Water Act EnforcementOn March 21, 2012, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a US Environmental Protection Agency administrative order issued under ...

March 26, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar Tariffs

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU ETS Risks, Hormuz Blockade Impact, UK Solar TariffsEnergy 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 ...

March 26, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-TrackThe EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...

March 23, 2012

FTC Increasing Scrutiny of Green Claims, Former Director Says

FTC Increasing Scrutiny of Green Claims, Former Director SaysThe 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, ...

March 20, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Tests, MATS Hearing, Ballast Water, FOIA on Keystone

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Fracking Tests, MATS Hearing, Ballast Water, FOIA on KeystoneA first round of EPA tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in Dimock, Penn., near natural gas drilling operations of Cabot Oil ...

March 19, 2012

Coke Wastewater Straining City Resources, Officials Claim

Coke Wastewater Straining City Resources, Officials ClaimWastewater 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 ...

March 15, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety Rules, Ohio Fracking Law

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Poland Veto, World Water Forum, NRC Safety Rules, Ohio Fracking LawCoal-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 ...

March 12, 2012