Earth Day

April 22, 2022

Embracing the Winds of Change Through Investments in the United States’ Energy Future

When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.” While this ancient Chinese proverb most likely did not envision the construction of large-scale, offshore wind farms, its wisdom remains strikingly applicable to the United States’ energy and infrastructure policies in the 21st Century. Continue reading

Air, Real Estate and Environment, Sustainability, Water

clean energy, Earth Day, electric grid, infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Matthew G. Lawson, President Biden
April 18, 2022

Earth Week Series: Imagine a Day Without Environmental Lawyers

On this 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, I am not writing yet another, typically not very funny, riff on one of Shakespeare’s most famous lines.[1] Instead, I am inspired by one of the most popular of our blogs, written in 2017 by our talented former partner, E. Lynn Grayson, “Imagine a Day Without Water.” To… Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Contamination, Emerging Contaminants, Greenhouse Gas, Groundwater, NEPA, RCRA, Sustainability, TSCA, Water

anniversay, Clean Air Act, Earth Day, Earth Week, environment, EPA, Gabrielle Sigel, Lawyers, Stephen H. Armstrong
April 23, 2021

Earth Day 2021: CERCLA and RCRA in The Biden Administration: Elevating Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Addressing Hazardous Wastes

We close out the Corporate Environmental Lawyer Blog’s weeklong celebration of Earth Day with the two federal programs aimed at cleaning up existing toxic waste sites and preventing the creation of new ones, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”). Continue reading

CERCLA, Climate Change, Emerging Contaminants, RCRA, Sustainability

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April 21, 2021

Earth Day 2021: Heightened Chemical Regulation under the Biden Administration

A key platform of President Biden’s environmental agenda is a heightened focus on regulating chemical substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Regulating chemicals in order to minimize the threat to human and the environment is clearly also critical to achieving the aims and goals of Earth Day especially considering that the publication of… Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Consumer Law and Environment, Emerging Contaminants, Sustainability, TSCA

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April 20, 2021

Earth Day 2021: Climate Change under the Biden Administration

President Biden has made climate change a main focus of his administration. At the beginning of his term, Biden issued several executive orders addressing climate change: “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (January 20, 2021) and “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at… Continue reading

Air, Climate Change

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April 19, 2021

Reflections on Earth Day, 2021

This week, as we celebrate Earth Day on April 22, Jenner & Block’s Environmental and Workplace Health and Safety Law Practice will be focusing, each day, on a different aspect of the environment and how this year will affect our planet. I thought I would begin our week-long focus on Earth Day with a more… Continue reading

Air, Climate Change, Sustainability

“A Children’s Bible”, “The Overstory”, Corporate Environmental Lawyer, Earth, Earth Day, EHS, fungi, Gabrielle Sigel, Jenner & Block, mycorrhizal network, pandemic, trees, Walt Kelly
July 29, 2019

Exploring the E-Suite with Elizabeth Anderson, Ph.D., Fellow ATS, Chief Science Officer and Senior Fellow, Exponent, Inc.; formerly, Carcinogen Assessment Group and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA

I led the health sciences assessment work for the first 14 years after U.S. EPA was formed in December 1970. At the time, U.S. EPA was a very small agency. I was the only health scientist in an eight-person Office of Technical Analysis, reporting directly to U.S. EPA’s first Administrator, Bill Ruckelshaus. Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Consumer Law and Environment, RCRA, Toxic Tort, Water

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April 21, 2017

Earth Day 2017: Environmental and Climate Literacy

By Steven M. Siros As has been the case for the past several years, we are pleased to present a special blog posting commemorating Earth Day. This year, Earth Day is Saturday, April 22, 2017 and the Earth Day campaign is "Environmental and Climate Literacy". This campaign is focused on working to ensure that the… Continue reading

Air, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Sustainability, Water

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April 21, 2016

More Than 150 Countries to Sign the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day

The United Nations has announced that up to 155 countries, including the United States, are planning to sign the Paris Climate Agreement at the Ceremony for Opening Signature, on Earth Day, April 22, 2016. Continue reading

Air, Climate Change, Consumer Law and Environment, Greenhouse Gas, Sustainability, Water

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April 20, 2016

What is Your Global Footprint?

As part of our ongoing focus on Earth Day 2016, I found an interesting tool that allows one to measure one’s global footprint. Continue reading

Air, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas, Sustainability, Water

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