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On Tuesday, February 9, 2016, the United States Supreme Court granted a stay preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its Clean Power Plan ("CPP")...

After an action packed few weeks for energy and environmental policy in Washington, Congress is in recess until after Labor Day.

In the final full week before the July 4 recess, energy policy is taking center stage in both the legislative and executive branches.

On Monday, President Obama released his fiscal year 2016 budget request as Congress continues to address energy issues including the Keystone XL pipeline, LNG export legislation, and tax reform.

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has reconsidered the use of Remediation Agreements for groundwater assessments and remediation plans.

The California Air Resources Board has taken several recent steps to amend, implement, and defend its regulations establishing a state greenhouse gas "cap and trade" program.

Representatives for the California Air Resources Board have stated that they will take all legal measures necessary to block the Trump administration's efforts to freeze fuel economy limits

In a recent edition of our Energy, Environment and Resources Update, we discussed the then-pending petition for writ of certiorari from a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit...

China has pledged to cut carbon emissions per unit of economic output "by as much as 45 percent from 2005 levels" by (in part) assigning credit ratings to companies in industries with heavy pollution or overcapacity based on their efforts to protect the environment.

The EPA's Clean Power Plan (RIN2060-AR33), released August 3, 2015, sets individual state emissions targets allows states to craft their own plan to meet those requirements.

On March 23, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that Dominion Power's discharge of pollutants via a groundwater pathway was in violation of the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA).

On July 3, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) stay of the Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources...

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit largely affirmed EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) on July 28.

On October 19, the Northern District of West Virginia handed a victory to Murray Energy by requiring EPA to conduct continuous economic evaluations of its regulatory implementation of the Clean Air Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday, June 23, limits EPA’s authority to impose limits on emissions of greenhouse gases.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding three per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of substances reportable under the agency's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)...

On January 12, 2017, EPA published a final rule adjusting for inflation the civil monetary penalty amounts for the statutes it administers.