States Set for Solar Cash Infusion Aim to Build Worker Pipeline
States set to receive slices of $7 billion to bring solar power to low-income communities are confronting the construction industry’s nationwide skilled labor shortage.
The dunes sagebrush lizard, an amphibian threatened by Permian Basin oil and gas development in Texas and New Mexico, is being listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
Requests by West Virginia and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association to stay the implementation of EPA’s latest carbon emission rules were denied Friday.
Chemical manufacturers and distributors will have to meet new federal requirements for labeling hazards on commercial products, under a final OSHA rule released Friday.
A US company has become the world’s most valuable solar manufacturer for the first time since 2018, as Chinese rivals suffer from a profit-slashing price war and an onslaught of trade barriers erected by Washington.
The EPA is inviting public comment and scientific critique on draft conclusions released Friday that two chemicals used to make plastics, building materials, and other goods are hazardous.
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.
States set to receive slices of $7 billion to bring solar power to low-income communities are confronting the construction industry’s nationwide skilled labor shortage.
Major UK law firms battling one another over salaries are taking a risk that higher costs hamper expansion plans and impede their ability to compete with US rivals.
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Dozens of tankers remain stuck doing nothing months after being sanctioned by the Treasury Department — a signal of the US’s scope to disrupt Moscow’s petroleum supply chain if it chooses to.
Mexico’s power grid operator Cenace declared an operational state of alert on Saturday, indicating the system’s available power is lagging below adequate levels.
The IRS should allow a $70 million charitable contribution tax deduction for a partnership’s donation of a conservation easement, the donor said in a US Tax Court petition.
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A US company has become the world’s most valuable solar manufacturer for the first time since 2018, as Chinese rivals suffer from a profit-slashing price war and an onslaught of trade barriers erected by Washington.
Ex-Rep. Kevin Brady, who chaired the Ways and Means panel during the 2017 tax overhaul, will join the lobbying firm Akin, steering corporate interests through next year’s mega fight as much of the law expires.
Major UK law firms battling one another over salaries are taking a risk that higher costs hamper expansion plans and impede their ability to compete with US rivals.
In upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism, a quartet of US Supreme Court justices across the ideological spectrum made clear they would take a similar stand in any challenge involving other financial regulators.
A California labor law classifying
Squire Patton Boggs’ Keith Bradley looks at the Supreme Court’s decision in a forfeiture case and he says Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence could lead to a new analysis for due process.
Law professor Donald Kochan examines a Hawaii climate change tort case, saying that the US Supreme Court should grant review so it can define issues that are solely within the federal government’s purview.
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