Environmental Pulse

The Act affects compliance obligations for any importer whose supply chain touches the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (the “Act”) was adopted on December 23, 2021 and its import restrictions took effect on June 21, 2022. The Act’s purpose is to ban imports […]

In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the court invalidated an Obama administration rule that had addressed greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. This decision weakens the EPA’s rulemaking authority. In 2015, the EPA promulgated the Clean Power Plan, 80 Fed. Reg. 64,662 (the “CPP”), which limited […]

Enacted in 2021, the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act regulates carbon-storage sites in Nebraska. Such projects have the potential to significantly offset industrial carbon emissions, including in ethanol production. Carbon capture and underground storage (“CCUS”) is the technology that removes carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and then compresses, transports, […]

The two-year halt on tariffs aims to alleviate import costs and ease supply-chain logjams that have hampered growth in the solar-energy industry. This move should allay some industry concerns and increase domestic development. President Joe Biden recently took significant action to address the slowdown in domestic solar-energy deployment. In an […]

The 2022 session was a year of significant appropriations, particularly for large-scale water projects. It also brought about new environmental laws. We summarize these, and other laws of interest, below. The Second Regular Session of the 107th Nebraska Legislature adjourned sine die last week on April 20, 2022. That marked […]