U.S. Chemical and Safety Hazard Board Ordered to Promulgate Release Reporting Requirement Rules
From: JD Supra “On February 4, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held, in a Clean Air Act (CAA) Citizen Suit, that the U.S. Chemical and Safety Hazard Board (Board), an independent federal agency, has violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by failing to ...
Grand Canyon, Other Parks, to Be Reimbursed for Funds Spent in Shutdown
From: Havasu News “The National Park Service said it will reimburse parks, like the Grand Canyon, that were forced to dip into local maintenance funds to remain partially open during the recent five-week government shutdown. While they welcomed the reimbursement, advocates said parks ...
Federal Judge Orders Safety Board to Require Disclosure of Chemical Emissions from Accidents
From: The Guam Daily Post “In a lawsuit filed after Hurricane Harvey, a federal judge has ordered the Chemical and Safety Hazard Investigation Board to force the disclosure of chemical emissions resulting from accidents. More than a thousand industrial chemical accidents take place every ...
Tampa Responds to Claims of Pollution Violations at Wastewater Plant
From: WMNF “An environmental nonprofit is accusing the City of Tampa of dozens of spills and other violations at its main wastewater treatment plant. But the city “categorically denies” the allegations. The Florida director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility – ...
Judge Holds Feds to the Fire on Chemical-Spill Reporting
From: Courthouse News Service “As public interest organizations, the plaintiffs argued that delays in reporting of accidental emissions make their job of raising community awareness harder — causing harm when communities aren’t warned in time of dangerous, unseen chemical emissions ...
Federal Judge Orders Chemical Safety Board to Require Disclosure of Chemical Emissions from Accidents
From: Washington Post “Mehta observed that the agency has had more than 20 years — far in excess of any “unreasonable delay” — to promulgate a final regulation and ordered the board to come up with a regulation within 12 months. “The court will not grant it two full years to do ...
