States Challenge Biden Environmental Permitting Rule in Court
A coalition of mostly red states launched the first legal challenge against the Biden administration’s recent environmental permitting rule on Tuesday.
The EPA warned on Monday that cyberattacks against drinking water systems are on the rise, and that hostile nations may have already embedded the ability to disable systems in the future.
Public power utilities, wildlife advocates, tribes, and local elected officials are among the diverse groups lobbying Congress to end hydropower production at eight dams the Army Corps of Engineers operates in the Willamette River Basin.
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Two Maryland climate deception cases will continue to proceed toward the discovery process, according to a ruling that denies energy industry requests to have the cases tossed.
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 coalition of mostly red states launched the first legal challenge against the Biden administration’s recent environmental permitting rule on Tuesday.
Biofuel trade associations asked the US Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit decision that vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s denial of small refineries’ requested exemptions from their Renewable Fuel Standard program obligations.
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The US Forest Service unlawfully fast-tracked an exploratory drilling project on public lands near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, reversing a lower court’s green light of the decision.
The Biden administration is putting its cache of 1 million barrels of gasoline on the market, after being ordered to liquidate the reserve by Congress.
A Biden administration rule to place stricter energy efficiency requirements on residential gas furnaces would be blocked through the Congressional Review Act under
Governments and companies need to spend an extra $34 trillion on the clean energy transition between now and 2050 to reach net-zero emissions, according to BloombergNEF.
A conservative group in Wisconsin filed complaints against the American Bar Association, a federal judge, and three law schools over alleged bias in hiring programs for students.
Tom Panoff has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton’s business trial practice group as a partner in Chicago, the firm said Tuesday.
Michael Halaiko and Alexandra Moylan have joined Baker Donelson as shareholders with the firm’s health law group and its data protection, privacy and cybersecurity team in Baltimore and Washington, the firm said Tuesday.
Thomas J. Henry PLLC, a large personal injury firm in Texas, says it didn’t discriminate against a former employee who claims she was demoted after being sexually assaulted by the firm’s chief executive officer.
A cryptocurrency investor sued the owner of NFT.com, a trading platform for nonfungible tokens, saying the serial entrepreneur duped him into helping launch the venture and then conspired to force him out.
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