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The chemical industry is urging New Mexico environment regulators to recommend the legislature retain all existing exemptions for PFAS uses, particularly for fluoropolymers, in the state’s PFAS law, warning regulators to weigh the economic consequences of eliminating such exemptions before suggesting revisions to the law.

Observers are clashing over whether the “project certainty” provisions in the Senate permitting proposal will ultimately be a boon to clean energy facilities that have faced a barrage of Trump administration attacks, or whether they might create a strong shield for fossil fuel projects and block future air and climate rules. “We need a system where if you get a permit you get it built, [and] it doesn’t get revoked for ideological reasons,” argued Center for Climate and Energy Solutions...

One constitutional law expert says the oil sector and its backers might regret playing up the sweeping implications of state and city climate tort suits in urging the Supreme Court to block them, given that such arguments appear to be a key reason why a conservative justice recused himself from the key Suncor v. Bouler suit. Justice Samuel Alito’s explanation for his recusal in an interview with the Wall Street Journal “seems to suggest that the claims made...

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Environmental lawyers will meet to talk about PFAS and other environmental issues, including managing litigation. And legal experts will discuss the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision upholding EPA’s landmark rule listing two legacy PFAS as “hazardous substances.” Law Conference The American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources will host its 34th fall conference Oct. 14-16 in Albuquerque, NM.

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Final passage of the Senate’s bipartisan permitting package could hinge in part on its “project certainty” provisions that seek to block agencies from disrupting existing permits or giving “disparate” treatment to certain energy types, as debate is already flaring about whether these provisions will ultimately favor fossil fuels or clean energy.

DURHAM -- EPA is adding PFAS to the list of compounds that can be evaluated under a framework it uses in its cleanup programs to test contaminants’ leaching from solid waste -- a move that may aid in calculating PFAS releases from land disposal and land-applied biosolids into the surrounding environment, EPA says. EPA is adding organic compounds -- in this case, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) -- to the existing list of inorganic compounds that fall under the agency’s...

Even after EPA issued letters advising many states of their likely “nonattainment” with Biden-era fine particulate matter (PM2.5) standards, the generic nature of the letters and ongoing legal battles over the standards and their implementation timeline are spurring some state officials to doubt EPA’s commitment to issue the designations. The “120-day” letters to states, announced Oct.