Environmental Roundup: OMA Submits Comments on Hazardous Waste Rules

• This week, the OMA submitted comments to Ohio EPA in support of the agency’s draft hazardous waste management program rules. The OMA urged the agency to keep the state rules consistent with federal regulations and remove certain provisions that go beyond what the federal regulations require.
• OMA Connections Partner Thompson Hine has published the results of its latest survey tracking private and public companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs, noting “an increasingly vocal anti-ESG sentiment.”
• OMA Connections Partner Plante Moran has posted this insight for businesses considering starting an ESG program.
• OMA Connections Partner Calfee has published this update on recent federal developments related to PFAS regulation.

Meanwhile, the National Association of Manufacturers has issued this statement in reaction to the U.S. EPA’s proposed new Waters of the United States rule, saying the agency is unnecessarily rewriting critical permitting standards and tossing aside U.S. Supreme Court precedent. 1/5/2023