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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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...
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...
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco but the City’s appeal of its NPDES permit is on its way to the United States Supreme Court
April 18, 2024Posted on April 18, 2024 by Jeff Porter DOJ and EPA have submitted their brief arguing that the Supreme Court should leave alone a split Ninth Circuit decision upholding...
AT A GLANCE: SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Challenges
April 10, 2024Posted on April 10, 2024 by Bessie Daschbach On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued its long-awaited climate disclosure rule. The rule, formally titled,...
Superfund Is Short of Money. Can It Be Fixed By Tinkering Around the Edges?
April 2, 2024Posted on April 2, 2024 by Seth Jaffe Last week, Inside EPA (subscription required) ran a story indicating that EPA is trying to figure out how to juggle some...
EPA’s Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule will almost certainly be challenged and EPA is the underdog in the legal fight to come.
March 28, 2024Posted on March 28, 2024 by Jeff Porter EPA picked another Clean Water Act fight with the United States Supreme Court last week and I don’t understand why EPA...
Poisonous Benefits?
March 28, 2024Posted on March 28, 2024 by Dennis H. Treacy Fifty years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced a human health and environmental crisis when the insecticide Kepone was discovered...
STEPHEN E. HERRMANN ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING AWARD
March 26, 2024Posted on March 26, 2024 by JB Ruhl The American College of Environmental Lawyers (“ACOEL”) announces its annual Stephen E. Herrmann Environmental Writing Award (“Herrmann Award”) for the 2023-24...
A CERCLA ALLOCATION BLOG FOR A CHANGE
March 13, 2024Posted on March 13, 2024 by David G. Mandelbaum I seem to be the ACOEL CERCLA blogger by default. The other environmental practitioners may affect to being far too...
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...