87 FR 80114
The Census Bureau announced the list of areas that qualified as urban based on the results of the 2020 Census for the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.
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87 FR 79903
The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it plans to consult with federally recognized Indian tribes in the agency's 17 western states on implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act as it applies to tribes.
87 FR 79938
The Internal Revenue Service announced that a petition had been filed requesting that polyoxymethylene be added to the list of taxable substances under §4672(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
87 FR 79309
EPA approved the Michigan Environment, Great Lakes, & Energy request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
87 FR 77766
The Federal Trade Commission seeks comment on the efficiency, costs, benefits, and regulatory impact of its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims to determine whether to retain, modify, or rescind them.
87 FR 76738
EPA proposed to issue regulations restricting the use of hydrofluorocarbons in specific sectors or subsectors in which they are used, establishing a process for submitting technology transitions petitions, establishing recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and addressing certain other elements related to the effective implementation of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act; the Agency also seeks advance information on certain topics that may be helpful to developing a future proposed rule, including on restrictions on the use of hydrofluorocarbons for certain other sectors and subsectors and on a third-party auditing program to verify substances used in products.
87 FR 76578
EPA amended the Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries to reference ASTM International’s E1527- 21 “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process”, allow for its use to satisfy the requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under CERCLA, and remove after one year recognition of the previous version of that standard, ASTM E1527-13.
87 FR 75185
The Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations that identify certain syndicated conservation easement transactions and substantially similar transactions as listed transactions, a type of reportable transaction.
Liability for Public Deception: Linking Fossil Fuel Disinformation to Climate Damages
Over two dozen U.S. states and municipalities have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, seeking abatement orders and compensation for climate damages based on theories such as public nuisance, negligence, and failure to warn, and alleging these companies knew about the dangers of their products, intentionally concealed those dangers, created doubt about climate science, and undermined public support for climate action.
Too Little Too Late: Underregulation of Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Underregulation is a common and persistent environmental law problem, with recent scholarly focus on individual contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), whose harm is not fully known. But little attention has been given to the general trend of underregulation with respect to these chemicals, or explaining why this systematic underregulation occurs. This Article posits that federal agencies have been unacceptably slow to initiate protective regulations, and even once regulations are promulgated, they leave regulatory gaps that continue to expose populations to harmful effects.