As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could find [...]
Archive for the ‘Environmental Enforcement’ Category
19 Apr
“In response to a court deadline…”
“In response to a court deadline,” the EPA yesterday finalized the long-awaited (and long-dreaded, by some) rules that aim to reduce air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry, including setting “the first federal air standards” for natural gas wells that are hydraulic fractured. According to the EPA, these rules are expected “to yield [...]
12 Apr
Recently in Environmental Disclosure: Fugitive Emissions
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could find [...]
27 Mar
Compelling Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals
Yesterday, The Hill’s E2 Wire reported on one of the latest attempts to extract information from drilling companies on the chemical make-up of liquids used in the hydraulic fracturing process. This time, in Wyoming, a group of public health and environmental organizations are petitioning the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC, whose website gives [...]
20 Mar
EPA Sued Over Nutrient Pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico
Law Firm Faegre Baker Daniels sent out a Legal Update this week detailing two complaints filed simultaneously against the EPA over actions (and inactions) taken in regards to nitrogen and phosphorus runoff in the Mississippi River. One complaint (Gulf Restor’n Network v. Jackson, E.D. La., No. 2: 12-cv-00677), filed March 13 in the U.S. District [...]
12 Mar
EPA to End Support of Voluntary Disclosures?
This just in from Seyfarth Shaw: The U.S. EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance has issued its draft guidance on the Fiscal Year 2013 enforcement program [...] The FY 2013 Draft Guidance identifies EPA’s intent to significantly cut back traditional federal enforcement strategies across all major federal environmental programs, and to eliminate the voluntary [...]
7 Mar
Recently in Environmental Disclosure: ‘We will defend vigorously against all of the claims’
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could find [...]
19 Jan
This Week in Environmental Disclosure: discharges of excess quantities of sugar
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could find [...]
16 Dec
This Week in Environmental Disclosure: Fruit Cocktails
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could [...]
9 Dec
This Week in Environmental Disclosure: A 70-Year Remediation Period?
As we’ve posted in the past, public companies must generally disclose environmental legal proceedings in various reports to the SEC, and whether or not those proceedings have a material effect on the company’s financial position. Companies may also disclose business risks related to current or pending environmental regulation. Below is the juiciest stuff we could [...]
