Underground Injection Control/California Power Generation Plant: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition for Review
November 10, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
Panoche Energy Center, LLC, (“PEC”) filed an October 28th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging certain conditions of a federal Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Class I Non-hazardous…
Plastics Recycling Facility/Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board: Clean Air Council Challenges Port Township Facility's Classification as Advanced Recycling Facility
November 10, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Clean Air Council (“CAC”) filed a Notice of Appeal (“Notice”) before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (“Board”) challenging a letter determination by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) for a proposed Port Township, Pennsylvania, plastics recycling…
Clean Energy Tax Incentives/Inflation Reduction Act: Environmental Organizations Submit Comments to the Internal Revenue Service
November 10, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and 25 other environmental and climate advocacy organizations (collectively, “NRDC”) submitted November 4th comments to the United States Department of Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) providing feedback on the implementation of the Inflation…
Alleged Impairment of Water Rights/Wetland Conservation Sites: Federal District Court Addresses Application of Sovereign Immunity to Natural Resource Conservation Service Oversight Activity
A United States District Court (Eastern District, Washington) (“Court”) addressed in an October 11th Order in the context of a Motion to Dismiss whether the doctrine of sovereign immunity applied to an oversight activity undertaken by the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources…
Average United States Solar/Wind/Natural Gas Generator Construction Costs: U.S. Energy Information Administration Report
The United States Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) published a November 3rd report titled: Average U.S. Construction Costs Drop for Solar, Rise for Wind and Natural Gas Generators (“Report”) The EIA Report concluded that construction costs for the following types of energy generators…