This Alert examines CEQ’s recent rollback of NEPA regulations, its implications for federal environmental reviews, and the legal challenges that may shape future agency procedures.
In this update, we’ll provide a brief overview of PFAS – a class of compounds widely used in industrial and consumer applications for decades – and highlight key regulatory, litigation, and other PFAS issues from 2024 and look ahead to 2025.
This landmark settlement underscores NMED’s use of flyover and remote sensing technologies for enforcement of air regs in the Permian Basin, and serves as a reminder to operators to inventory facilities in anticipation of more aggressive Clean Air Act enforcement at federal and state levels.
The Tenth Circuit’s decision will likely make it more difficult to obtain summary judgment in oilfield contamination cases.
