Blogs & Resources
ACOEL members contribute regularly to the ACOEL Blog, writing on topics of current interest in their respective fields. Recently-published blogs are featured below, or you can search the ACOEL blog archive using the search feature.
Current Blogs
Most States Rise to the Challenge and Submit Preliminary Climate Plans to EPA – Now for the Hard Part
April 30, 2024Posted on April 30, 2024 by Steven Chester In mid-April of this year, the Climate XChange, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing state climate policy, announced that it, along with RMI and the Evergreen Collaborative, had reviewed “6,795 pages of state climate plans.” These plans had been submitted to...
EPA Designates PFAS as Hazardous Substances; EPA Is More Confident Than I Am that the Sky Isn’t Falling
April 24, 2024Posted on April 24, 2024 by Seth Jaffe Last Friday, EPA formally designated perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) – including their salts and structural isomers! – as hazardous substances under CERCLA. I cannot really quarrel with the underlying decision to list PFOA and PFOS. Given the developing...
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Court Rejects Suit Seeking To Require Corps To Comply With Commitments Made In Conjunction With Channel Dredging Project
December 28, 2011Posted on December 28, 2011 by George House In Village of Bald Head Island v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, plaintiff Village of Bald Head Island and intervenor North Carolina beach communities...
Whooping Crane ESA Litigation
December 26, 2011Posted on December 26, 2011 by Molly Cagle Lawyers trying The Aransas Project vs. Bryan Shaw, Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, et al. Civ. Action No. 2:10-cv-00075, Southern District of Texas,...
Some Perspective and Recent Developments Regarding Superfund’s Transactional Defenses
December 21, 2011Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jeff Civins To encourage Brownfields development, Congress amended Superfund to add three transactional defenses to potentially responsible party liability: (1) innocent purchaser (IP); (2) bona...
Climate Change Success, or Failure, at Durban
December 20, 2011Posted on December 20, 2011 by Jonathan Z. Cannon The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) ended last Sunday, December,...
ASIAN CARP AND THE CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
December 19, 2011Posted on December 19, 2011 by David Ullrich For many years, the Great Lakes community has identified invasive species as one of the most serious threats to the largest system of...
New TSCA Reporting Rule Compels Disclosure of Much Information
December 16, 2011Posted on December 16, 2011 by Lynn L. Bergeson The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on August 16, 2011, the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR)...
So What If It Is in the SIP …
December 15, 2011Posted on December 15, 2011 by Carolyn Brown EPA’s Draft Guidance for 1-Hour SO2 NAAQS SIP Submissions has been out for public comment since this fall and, after an extension published...
Superfund Defenses that Matter — EPA’s New Enforcement Guidance on “Affiliation” for Landowner Defenses
December 15, 2011Posted on December 15, 2011 by Kenneth Gray Sophisticated buyers of contaminated and potentially contaminated property (and their counsel) typically take pains to satisfy the Superfund (CERCLA) defenses for Bona Fide...
South Coast Launches Major NSR Reform Effort
December 12, 2011Posted on December 12, 2011 by Robert Wyman After several years of rapidly escalating offset prices, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has launched a major effort to consider near- and...
ACOEL PRESS RELEASES
ACOEL ANNOUNCES NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS & REGENTS
October 17, 2023October 17, 2023For Immediate ReleaseContact: admin@acoel.org (Washington, DC): The American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) is proud to announce...
ACOEL Announces Newly-Elected Fellows for 2023
July 27, 2023July 27, 2023For Immediate ReleaseContact: admin@acoel.org (Washington, DC): The American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) is proud to welcome...