Legal Fight Brews Over Mining Road as Alaska Spars with Interior
A legal analysis of the Interior Department’s intent to block an Alaska mining road is essential before the department makes its final decision in the coming weeks, Sen.
The meaning of “indistinguishable” and what that says about one man’s North Carolina waterfront property is the focus of litigation that his attorneys are positioning as the next Supreme Court showdown over Clean Water Act wetlands regulation.
Electric transmission line projects in certain areas of the West, Great Plains, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast could be deemed in the “national interest” as part of potential transmission corridors released by the Biden administration Wednesday.
The oil industry’s top trade group filed a petition in federal court challenging Biden administration mandates cracking down on planet-warming methane emissions from wells, tanks and pipelines, even as it pushes the government to make administrative changes.
New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and a coalition of other supporters told judges on Monday that the EPA was right to turn down a West Virginia air plan to make way for tougher ozone air quality actions.
The EPA’s decision to broadly prohibit as many commercial and industrial uses of the solvent methylene chloride as it did in a rule issued last week is likely to be challenged in court, attorneys said in recent interviews.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
A legal analysis of the Interior Department’s intent to block an Alaska mining road is essential before the department makes its final decision in the coming weeks, Sen.
The International Accounting Standards Board proposed changes Wednesday to how companies account for renewable energy contracts, which have surged in popularity globally in recent years.
The federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has selected the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to oversee four lawsuits challenging the EPA’s rule that will phase out ongoing uses of chyrsotile asbestos.
Banks are being advised to avoid using carbon credits to offset their financed emissions, as lawyers warn that new regulations in Europe will make greenwashing litigation a lot easier to pursue.
The world’s biggest fusion-energy experiment is planning a reboot without one of its most important members, after the UK announced funding for a rival project trying to replicate the sun’s energy on Earth.
The number of European banks taking account of environmental risks in their reserves for loan losses has more than tripled in a year, signaling an initial win for the regulator in its effort to prepare for climate change.
Georgie Messent has joined Squire Patton Boggs as partner in the environmental, safety, and health practice group in the London office, the firm said Wednesday.
Electric transmission line projects in certain areas of the West, Great Plains, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast could be deemed in the “national interest” as part of potential transmission corridors released by the Biden administration Wednesday.
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Litigators Robin Nunn and Jennifer Park have joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as partners, the firm said Wednesday.
Michael Gordon, a financial services lawyer who worked at Ballard Spahr and WilmerHale, is the new general counsel for Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm that helps to fund and manage nonprofits.
D. Porpoise Evans has been appointed office managing shareholder of Littler’s Miami office, the firm said Wednesday.
Anne Peetz has joined Reed Smith as a partner in its global corporate group in Houston, the firm said Wednesday.
Lawyers should not reveal any information relating to a client’s representation to a wide group of lawyers in a computer listserv, or group email list, without informed consent, the American Bar Association has advised in a formal opinion Wednesday.
Donell Andre Hicks has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the construction practice group in Seattle, the firm said Wednesday.
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