White House Doles Out $30 Million for AI to Help in Permitting
The Biden administration on Monday announced it’s delivering $30 million to 11 agencies to invest in artificial intelligence, advanced mapping technologies, and other IT tools.
Corporate attorneys and former federal officials are praising the EPA’s bid to coordinate its civil and criminal enforcement teams as a sensible idea that will yield fairer outcomes, reduce unpredictability, and expedite resolutions.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service will submit its endangered species determination for the imperiled longfin smelt by July 22, according to a judgment involving the agency and San Francisco Baykeeper.
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Companies will have to pay millions of dollars to clean up more contaminated sites due to the EPA’s new Superfund PFAS rule, but site selection will take time and use predictable criteria, mandated data, and established processes, attorneys said.
Long-awaited rules governing carbon emissions from power plants are in the crosshairs of widespread industry opposition, but some court observers see the rule on good footing as it faces inevitable judicial review.
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.
The Biden administration on Monday announced it’s delivering $30 million to 11 agencies to invest in artificial intelligence, advanced mapping technologies, and other IT tools.
The IRS needs more authority to properly evaluate—and deny, if necessary—biofuel tax credit claims, an agency watchdog said in a new report.
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Final rules from the Treasury Department governing energy tax credit transfers cement guidance for one of the bigger changes to come out of the 2022 tax-and-climate law known as the Inflation Reduction Act.
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The Biden administration is tapping artificial intelligence to speed up permitting, improve power grid reliability, and address environmental justice harms—all while pledging to monitor the risks of the emerging technology.
The IRS issued new guidance for taxpayers seeking Section 48C advanced energy production tax credits, announcing plans for the next round of credit allocations and clarifying some procedures in the guidance.
Democratic attorneys general from Massachusetts, New York and 16 other states, plus the District of Columbia, on Monday got the go ahead to start defending the SEC’s climate disclosure regulations in court, after the Eighth Circuit let them enter the litigation.
Group of Seven nations have agreed to target the first half of 2030s to phase out coal, according to the UK’s energy and nuclear minister, a key milestone for some of the world’s most industrialized economies seeking to switch to more sustainable fuels.
Natron Energy Inc. will unveil what it bills as the first full-scale plant in the US for making sodium-ion batteries on Monday. The plant situated near Michigan’s western shore has already started making cells and plans its first shipments in June.
Michael Burshteyn has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the intellectual property litigation practice in the San Francisco office, the firm said Monday.
Clément Vandevooghel has joined Kramer Levin as a partner with the banking and finance department in the Paris office, the firm said Monday.
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Damian Carolan, a practice group head at Allen & Overy, is leaving the UK law firm days before it officially merges with New York’s Shearman & Sterling.
Megan B. Kilzy has joined Cole Schotz as a member in the litigation department and white collar criminal defense and government investigations group in the Hackensack, N.J., office, the firm said Monday.
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