On July 21, 2010, members of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) traveled to Philadelphia to meet with U.S. EPA Region III and discuss various environmental issues, including water, waste, and air issues. The hazardous and solid waste issues...

7/19/10: 'Aerosols can only temporary fix global warming' Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Environment/Global-Warming/Aerosols-can-only-temporary-fix-global-warming-/articleshow/6187668.cms 7/19/10: 'Climategate' fallout may impact legislation San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/19/MNNS1EFLDU.DTL 7/20/10: The Global Warming-Hurricane Connection: A Far-From-Settled Science CO2 Science Magazine http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N29/EDIT.php 7/20/10: Green groups blame Russia drought...

On Tuesday, June 20th, the National Mining Association (“NMA”) filed an action for declaratory and injunctive relief in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against EPA, the Corps of Engineers, and agency leaders in their official capacity...

July 12, 2010 EPA proposed the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS2 (published July 20, 2010 [75 FR 42237-42268]. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)...

7/12/10: Dutch agency admits error in UN climate report Las Vegas Sun http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/12/dutch-agency-admits-error-in-un-climate-report/ 7/12/10: Plants Are Key to Climate Change Outlook Discovery News http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants-stomata.html 7/123/10: Ad campaign takes personal look at climate change scientists USA Today http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/07/union-for-concerned-scientists-are-curious-for-life/1 7/14/10: Dems revive...

ASTM International, headquartered in West Conshohocken, PA, on June 22, 2010, announced a new approved test method for determining the opacity of a plume in an outdoor ambient atmosphere. ASTM D7520 was developed by Subcommittee D22.03 on Ambient Atmospheres and...

On April 15, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the 15th annual US greenhouse gas inventory report, which shows a drop in overall emissions of 2.9 percent from 2007 to 2008. The downward trend is attributed to a...

Private lands intermixed with Federal and Indian lands are subject to state jurisdiction for the Safe Drinking Water Act, not Federal jurisdiction arising from geographic nexus to Indian Land. On May 11, 2009, we reported that the Tenth Circuit held...

7/4/10: A chair to showcase India's concern on climate change Economic Times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/the-sunday-et/backpage/A-chair-to-showcase-Indias-concern-on-climate-change/articleshow/6125811.cms 7/5/10: Climate talks to pave way for Cancun summit People's Daily Online http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7051956.html 7/5/10: Climate change lawsuit premature, say LGUs ABS CBN News http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/05/10/climate-change-lawsuit-premature-say-lgus 7/5/10: Will China's...

In case you may not have noticed, on October 21, 2009 the USEPA initiated the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP), in particular, the USEPA implemented the Tier 1 screening portion of the EDSP under section 408(p)(5) of the Federal Food,...