We mentioned in our January 30th DG Digest blog that the anticipated PHMSA HM-215N Final Rule was withdrawn as a result of President Trump’s executive memoranda that put a freeze on all new regulations. Here’s some additional information on how this temporarily impacts lithium battery shippers. As you know, the HM-215N Final Rule would have…
DG Digest: regulatory freeze may mean rollbacks and will PHMSA preempt Oregon’s haz waste rule?
The new week brings with it uncertainty over the current regulatory situation. On January 21st, 2017, the newly installed Trump Administration imposed a regulatory freeze on US federal rulemaking. As a result, rules not yet finalized for submission to the Federal Register were placed in hold status; rules which had been finalized but were not…