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The Cost of Noncompliance: OSHA, DOT, EPA Penalties Increase for 2023

January 23, 2023 - As required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, federal agencies must publish “catch-up” rules that adjust the level of monetary penalties assessed for various violations — and then make annual adjustments no later than January 15 each year after that. The penalty adjustments recently published by the Occupational Health […]

OSHA Revives Process Safety Management Update

December 13, 2022 - Despite safety improvements, continued toxic chemical releases drive new process safety management rulemaking activity. It should be no surprise that OSHA is stepping up its plans to revise the Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals (PSM) standard. At the pre-rule stage of the rulemaking process, PSM appeared on the agency’s Unified Agenda last spring […]

COVID-19 UPDATE: Steps Toward Regulatory Relief from Environmental Compliance

March 31, 2020 - The novel COVID-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented dilemma for many businesses trying to maintain normal business operations in compliance with applicable environmental laws, rules, and permits. Social distancing, telework, shelter in place and other measures designed to slow viral transmission not only disrupts principal business and manufacturing operations but also creates new challenges for maintaining […]

EPA and DES Propose Novel Permit to Reduce Nitrogen Pollution to Great Bay Estuary

February 20, 2020 - Since Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, the United States has made tremendous progress in cleaning up our nation’s waterways. Infrastructure and technology improvements at municipal wastewater plants were fundamental in those changes. Prior to 1972, many cities and towns discharged raw sewage directly into adjacent rivers, lakes, and oceans. Building and upgrading […]

Clean Water Rule Could Be Swept Downstream

July 12, 2018 - On June 29, the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a 93-page “Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (the “Notice”) with the primary purpose of repealing the “2015 Rule Defining Waters of the United States.” Available at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-06/documents/wotus_step1_snprm_prepub_0.pdf. The Notice calls the rule released by the Obama […]

Orr & Reno Attorney Maureen Smith Published in NH Bar News

September 25, 2017 - Maureen Smith, an Orr & Reno shareholder who represents business and individual clients in a broad range of environmental matters, has been published in the September 20, 2017 issue of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Bar News. “Environmental, Telecomm, Utilities & Energy Law: Emerging Contaminants Pose Legal Challenges” focuses on the legal, practical and political […]

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