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The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its revised Risk Management Program Rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for pre-publication review. The EPA’s Risk Management Program applies to facilities that use or store a certain threshold amount of hazardous substances.

Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment published the findings of a study analyzing flowback and produced waters from hydraulically fractured unconventional oil and gas wells. The study found that only 4-8% of the flowback and produced waters is composed of returned injected hydraulic fracturing fluids, and the majority of the return of injected hydraulic fracturing fluids occurs within the first few months after the initial fracturing. The remaining 92-96% of the flowback and produced waters comes from naturally occurring formation brines.

On November 10, 2016 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final Information Collection Request (ICR) to assist the agency in drafting eventual regulations on methane emissions from the Oil and Gas industry.  The EPA issued the ICR in ...

Industries for the Environment, a publication for the Arkansas Environmental Federation, recently published an article authored by PPGMR Law attorney Chad Wood entitled, "The Arkansas Regional Haze FIP: A Remedy in Search of a Problem?"

Enacted in 1987, Bankruptcy Code Chapter 12 provides family farmers and fishermen a mechanism to reorganize their financial affairs.