In short order, President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has suffered serious blows on both the legislative front and in the judicial sphere. On Thursday of last week, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who had been negotiating with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a budget reconciliation bill that would, among other things, include a number […]
Last November, the Biden administration began another chapter in the long-running saga to develop a lasting definition for the phrase “waters of the United States” (“WOTUS”) when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corp) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on the matter. With that, they join the Obama […]
At first glance, the $1.5 billion specifically earmarked for brownfield cleanup and a total of $21 billion set aside for environmental remediation in the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) may seem paltry, given that there are an estimated 450,000 brownfield sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. […]
