image credit: Pictures of MoneyOn January 8, the Environmental Protection Agency published its statutory civil penalties, adjusted for inflation. 83 FR 1190. The adjustment was required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Improvements Act of 2015, which established a formula for adjusting civil penalties annually to reflect inflation, maintain the penalties’ deterrent
image credit: U.S. Department of AgricultureOn October 19, the Sierra Club filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that the agency is years overdue in complying with statutory deadlines for evaluating the environmental impacts of the federal renewable fuel standard program.
The Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) program was adopted in 2005 and
image credit: Steve JohnsonIn January 2016, the Supreme Judicial Court issued a strong climate change decision under Massachusetts’ 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. The GWSA required the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to adopt regulations reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by