--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | Clean Energy description: Clean Energy | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [EPA provides battery energy storage system safety and response guidance](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-provides-battery-energy-storage-system-safety-and-response-guidance) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Fri, Sep 26, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/pexels-hilaryh-698485.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-provides-battery-energy-storage-system-safety-and-response-guidance) On August 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted updated guidance for battery energy storage system (BESS) installation and incident response. EPA has added a 3-page Fact Sheet, “Battery Energy Storage Systems: Main Considerations for Safe Installation and Incident Response” to its online compilation of information for “Sustainable Management of Electronics and Batteries.”  EPA notes that BESS operations help stabilize electrical grids by providing steady power flow, particularly where there may be interruptions in grid power or fluctuations in production from renewable energy sources. However, EPA also notes that lithium battery fires at some installations (notably at commercial facilities in San Diego and Moss Landing, California) have raised safety concerns in many communities. EPA intends its new guidance to help address these concerns; the remainder of this note summarizes EPA’s new guidance.  [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-provides-battery-energy-storage-system-safety-and-response-guidance) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-provides-battery-energy-storage-system-safety-and-response-guidance#comments-listing) Tags: [EHS](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/ehs), [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [sustainability](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/sustainability), [Clean Energy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/clean-energy), [Fire Safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/fire-safety), [Environmental Health and Safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-health-and-safety), [Fire Risk Management](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/fire-risk-management), [Risk Management](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/risk-management), [Battery Energy Storage](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/battery-energy-storage) ## [EPA announces 31 reconsiderations and revisions toward Trump administration priorities](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-announces-31-reconsiderations-and-revisions-toward-trump-administration-priorities) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Mar 18, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/images/EPA_logo.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-announces-31-reconsiderations-and-revisions-toward-trump-administration-priorities) On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced “31 historic actions in the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.” These actions move to reconsider, and likely reverse, actions from the Biden administration as well as earlier EPA actions dating back to at least 2009. These actions are summarized in a general press release, and accompanied by more than 20 additional releases announcing specific actions; most involve the Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA links these initiatives to President Trump’s latest executive orders (EOs) and policy initiatives (I wrote about the EOs [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-executive-orders-and-memoranda-reversing-biden-environmental-initiatives) and [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-reworking-the-environmental-protection-agency)). In earlier notes I addressed many of the regulatory and policy actions that will now be reconsidered. ) [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-announces-31-reconsiderations-and-revisions-toward-trump-administration-priorities) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-announces-31-reconsiderations-and-revisions-toward-trump-administration-priorities#comments-listing) Tags: [Environmental](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental), [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [Clean Air Act](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/clean-air-act), [Clean Energy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/clean-energy), [Environmental Policy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-policy), [CCA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/cca), [Deregulation](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/deregulation), [Manufactoring](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/manufactoring) ## [Environmental policy: what are the Democrats promising](https://blog.stpub.com/environmental-policy-what-are-the-democrats-promising) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Oct 20, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/landscape-5546444_1920.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/environmental-policy-what-are-the-democrats-promising) As the 2020 Presidential election approaches its close, both major parties’ major environmental proposals have been formalized. As the incumbent party, the Republican National Committee decided not to adopt a formal election platform, and instead adopted a resolution promising continuity, the most substantive provision of which is “That the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.” (I summarized candidate Trump’s 2016 proposals [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/what-would-trump-do), and have written dozens of blogs summarizing specific actions since that election). 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