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The U.S. Congress has passed legislation requiring companies that utilize "conflict minerals" to conduct due diligence and demonstrate that their products are not fuelling conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC").

Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law in 2010, directed the SEC to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to report annually on payments made to governments.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the summary judgment motion of the plaintiffs challenging the conflict minerals rules and upheld the cross-motion by the SEC and an intervenor for summary judgment.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently vacated a rule promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On September 18, 2013, the Highland Park Borough Council passed the first local ban on fracking in New Jersey.

As part of an ongoing blog series, Arnold & Porter's cross-practice Energy and Energy Transition team is highlighting key legal and regulatory developments for clients across economic sectors navigating all aspects...

On January 15, Secretary Sally Jewell announced that the Department of the Interior will launch a comprehensive review to identify and evaluate potential reforms to the federal coal program.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced that, for the third consecutive year, none of the nation's more than 13,000 mining operations met the criteria for a Pattern of Violations...

As evidenced by the attention of several major news outlets (“The Wall Street Journal” and “The New York Times”, to name a few), gas exploration in the hills of Western Pennsylvania is the hot topic of the day.

Collections of Pennsylvania sales tax, realty transfer tax and other local and state taxes remain robust in concentrated natural-gas drilling regions of the state, according to a Penn State University

The regulation will not require due diligence by manufacturers, importers and sellers of finished products and components.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act ("UFLPA") went into effect June 21, 2022, and established a rebuttable presumption that all merchandise coming from the Xinjiang region of China...

The transportation manufacturing industry (which includes automotive and aerospace), along with the mining and constructions industries, will be able to restart operations on June 1...

It has been nearly a month since the deadline for companies in the United States to file their second annual conflict minerals reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Government Accountability Office ("GAO") examined company disclosures filed in 2015 in response to the SEC conflict minerals regulations...

NASDAQ is requiring listed companies to submit a Compensation Committee Certification to certify compliance with the amended compensation committee requirements.

On 27 June 2016, the SEC adopted a final rule requiring resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to the US federal government or a foreign government...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided that conciliation efforts by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") are subject to judicial review, but that review is limited.