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11.18.24

Manatt Submits Comments to State Water Board on Streamlining Desalination Facility Permitting

Amid California’s water crisis, Manatt submitted a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board on opportunities for new desalination plants.


04.24.20

The California Oil Industry’s Use of Force Majeure Claims in the Wake of COVID-19

The precipitous drop in the demand for oil is not going away anytime soon.


04.30.19

EPA Dips Toes Into PFAS Drinking Water

On April 25, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Draft Interim Recommendations to Address Groundwater Contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) for public review and comment.


08.06.18

CCAs Win Exit Fees Skirmish but Fight Continues

Last Wednesday afternoon, one day before the California Public Utilities Commission held a scheduled argument in the matter, Administrative Law Judge Stephen Roscow issued a Proposed Decision Modifying the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment Methodology, or PCIA.


08.21.17

California Businesses Will Have to Stop Landfilling Organic Waste

Pending regulations now being developed by CalRecycle will have a significant impact on persons generating, transporting, recycling and disposing of organic waste in California.


08.11.17

California Mandatory Packaging Waste Management Initiative

CalRecycle, the California state agency responsible for solid waste and recycling regulatory programs, estimates that packaging represents about one-quarter of California's total disposal stream. 


07.13.17

Revised California Air Resources Board (CARB) Enforcement Policy

CARB is in the process of revising their existing Enforcement Policy.


01.30.17

TSCA Reset to Affect Nearly All Manufacturers, Importers and Processors

Companies that have manufactured or imported chemical products in the U.S. in the past ten years (alone or formulated in products and mixtures) should plan now to comply with new rules requiring them to identify and report each of those substances to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...


10.21.16

Retailers Navigate Shifting Environmental Regulatory Landscape

The past decade has witnessed a monumental shift in regulatory oversight of retailers' environmental compliance programs.


10.05.16

2017 "Reset" of TSCA Inventory Will Affect All Chemical Users

As required by the 2016 amendments to the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) next year will zero out and rebuild its inventory of chemicals in commerce (the TSCA Inventory).