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Sep 27, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | Jen Fernandez |Elyssa Kutner |Aaron Flyer |Heather Hedges
On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) published a long-awaited rule proposing to ban certain connected vehicles transactions involving hardware and software linked to the People’s Republic of China (China) and Russia.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
law360.com | Justin Savage |Ike Adams |Aaron Flyer
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Justin Savage, Ike Adams and Aaron Flyer (April 25, 2024, 4:17 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized a rule that imposes novel board reporting regulations and signals that the agency may seek a role in regulating corporate governance....
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Sonia Gupta Barros |Samuel B. Boxerman |Heather Palmer |Aaron Flyer
On Thursday, April 4, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission or SEC) issued an order staying its March 6, 2024, Final Rules — The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, Rel. Nos. 33-11275, 34-99678 (Mar. 6, 2024), 89 Fed. Reg. 21,668 (Mar. 28, 2024).
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer
On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Federal Highway Administration¸ No. 23-162 (W.D. Ky.), the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky vacated the Federal Highway Administration December 2023 Greenhouse Gas Rule (see our prior blog post here for a more detailed summary of the Rule).
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Justin Savage |Caleb Bowers |Aaron Flyer
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that it will hold a public workshop to discuss amendments to its Heavy-Duty (HD) Engine and Vehicle Omnibus (Omnibus) Regulation. The amendments have been proposed following extensive discussion between CARB and the Engine Manufacturers Association (EMA) during 2023, which culminated in CARB agreeing to revise its heavy-duty vehicle emission standards to align more closely with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer
On Wednesday, January 25, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a challenge to a 2020 rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revising regulatory requirements for water quality certification under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer
USAOctober 30 2023On Friday, October 27, 2023, the White House announced an effort to utilize over $35 billion in federal assistance for affordable housing projects using funding appropriated under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing programs.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina finding that shrimping trawlers that disturb ocean floor sediment and discard other fish and marine organisms, or “bycatch,” after extracting shrimp from their nets are not discharging a pollutant under the Clean Water Act (Act).
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer |Caleb Bowers
On Wednesday, March 8, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed more stringent effluent limitations guidelines and standards for coal-fired power plants, which it estimates will cost $200 million annually while reducing pollutant discharges by approximately 584 million pounds per year.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Samuel B. Boxerman |Aaron Flyer
On Tuesday, January 31, EPA Administrator Michael Regan finalized EPA’s disapproval of State Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions for 19 states regarding the interstate transport of ozone under the 2015 eight-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) of 70 parts per billion. Under the Clean Air Act, states were required to submit SIPs for the 2015 eight-hour ozone standard by October 1, 2018.
