By: Cheryl Wong
This is a list of select proposed EHS regulatory changes in Canada, the United States, and the European Union. Nimonik monitors EHS legislation, regulations and standards in over 30 countries and 400 jurisdictions. If you would like to track EHS legislation in specific regions, jurisdictions or countries, we are happy to help. Please send us a request for more information here and we will get in touch shortly.
Canada
United States
- Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2026 and 2027, Partial Waiver of 2025 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement, and Other Changes
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units
- Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units
- Proposal To Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits
European Union
Quebec
First-aid Minimum Standards
Published Date: 4 June 2025
Industry Sector: General Industry, Office Spaces, Building Management and Maintenance
The Government of Quebec has announced its intention to provide that “a nurse may be assigned as a first-aider by the employer or the principal contractor” and to specify “the procedure for calculating the number of workers for the purpose of determining the number of first-aiders required in an establishment, on a construction site or during forest development work”. The change would also set out the “training requirements for the issue of a first-aid certificate” and update the “material required in the nurse’s room”.
The change would be made by amending the First-aid Minimum Standards Regulation.
Interested parties may submit comments until July 19, 2025.
Additional information is available here.
United States
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2026 and 2027, Partial Waiver of 2025 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement, and Other Changes
Published Date: 17 June 2025
Industry Sector: General Industry
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing the volume targets and percentage standards for 2026 and 2027 for certain renewable fuels, as well as “several regulatory changes to the [Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)] program”.
Notably, the EPA is proposing:
- “the applicable volumes and percentage standards for 2026 and 2027 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel (BBD), advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel”;
- “to partially waive the 2025 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement and revise the associated percentage standard due to a shortfall in cellulosic biofuel production”; and
- “several regulatory changes to the RFS program, including reducing the number of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) generated for imported renewable fuel and renewable fuel produced from foreign feedstocks and removing renewable electricity as a qualifying renewable fuel under the RFS program (eRINs)”.
Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 8, 2025.
Additional information is available here.
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units
Published Date: 17 June 2025
Industry Sector: Utilities and Communications
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to repeal certain amendments made by National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and Technology Review.
According to the government, the following provisions would be repealed:
- “the revised filterable particulate matter (fPM) emission standard, which serves as a surrogate for non-mercury hazardous air pollutant (HAP) metals for existing coal-fired [Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (EGUs)]”;
- “the revised fPM emission standard compliance demonstration requirements”; and
- “the revised mercury (Hg) emission standard for lignite-fired EGUs”.
Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 11, 2025.
Additional information is available here.
Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units
Published Date: 17 June 2025
Industry Sector: Utilities and Communications
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to either “repeal all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants” or, as an alternative, “repeal a narrower set of requirements that includes the emission guidelines for existing fossil fuel-fired steam generating units, the carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS)-based standards for coal-fired steam generating units undertaking a large modification, and the CCS-based standards for new base load stationary combustion turbines”.
Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 7, 2025.
Additional information is available here.
Proposal To Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits
Published Date: 18 June 2025
Industry Sector: General Industry
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to issue a new Nationwide Permit (NWP) that “would authorize activities to improve the passage of fish and other aquatic organisms through aquatic ecosystems”, and also “modify some other NWPs to simplify and clarify those NWPs”.
According to the government, the new NWP would “authorize activities to restore or enhance the passage of fish and other aquatic organisms, as well as other ecological processes such as the transport of water, sediment and nutrients, around or through barriers so that they can access other aquatic habitats. Activities authorized by this proposed new NWP would include nature-like fishways, which are a nature-based solutions that can help improve the ability of fish and other aquatic organisms to move around or through barriers and access upstream and downstream aquatic habitats” and certain other activities.
Interested persons are invited to submit comments by July 18, 2025.
Additional information is available here.
European Union
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1938
Published Date: 17 June 2025
Industry Sector: Oil and Gas Industry
The European Commission has announced its intention to remove “the Union’s dependencies and exposure to the significant risks for trade and energy security resulting from imports of gas and oil from the Russian Federation” by establishing prohibitions on importing natural gas from the Russian Federation and on providing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal services to Russian entities.
According to the content of the proposal, this would also be made in particular by amending existing Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 to enhance the existing monitoring framework, focusing on requiring “importers of gas from the Russian Federation to provide detailed contractual information to the Commission and national competent authorities” and requiring “providers of LNG terminals to communicate the Commission with relevant information concerning the services booked by customers from the Russian Federation”.
Additional information is available here.
Past months’ proposed changes are available here: May 2025, April 2025, March 2025, February 2025, January 2025, December 2024
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