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Last week, Judge Donald Malloy vacated the Environmental Assessment for the Bull Mountains Mine No. 1 in central Montana. Judge Malloy had already vacated the EA once...

On December 9, 2020, the California Energy Commission (CEC) appointed nine members of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium Extraction in California (Lithium Valley Commission).

Last week, the California Supreme Court handed down an important decision on prevailing wage law favorable to industry.

This week, the U.S. Department of the Interior ("DOI") publicly confirmed the ongoing rights of Colosseum Rare Metals, Inc. ("CRM") to continue mining operations at the Colosseum Mine...

In the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. No. 109-58), Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from Underground Injection Control (UIC) regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

As momentum increases toward achieving net zero, one aspect of the commitment to fight climate change and reduce carbon emissions that has attracted less attention...

In Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards v. Red River Coal Co., ___ F.3d ___, No. 19-2194, 2021 WL 1182464 (4th Cir. 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that Red River Coal...

The Report notes initially that pipelines carrying hazardous liquids or gas have the lowest incident rate of other transportation modes.

On Friday, I posted about a decision invalidating BLM Resource Manage Plans for failure to comply with NEPA.

A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state legislators have proposed a law that would require energy developers to pay a 4.9% severance tax on natural gas produced within the commonwealth.

On March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order promoting mining and processing of "critical minerals" in the United States.

The Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") recently issued a policy to prevent wildlife mortalities in open, uncapped hollow pipes used on public land.

Ten years ago today, plaintiffs filed an Alien Tort Statute ("ATS") suit against Rio Tinto Plc alleging that they were the victims of numerous violations of international law as the result of Rio Tinto’s mining operations on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Almost ten years later, on October 26, an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals referred the proposed class action, Sarei v. Rio Tinto, to a mediator "to explore the possibility of mediation."

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently rejected a challenge to the conflict minerals rule adopted in August 2012 by the SEC pursuant to Section 1502 of Dodd-Frank.

New amendments to the Minnesota Environmental Review Rules alter thresholds for preparation of environmental reviews for projects in shoreland areas.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals restored EPA's authority to withdraw the specification of streams for the disposal of mountaintop mining wastes – years after the Army Corps had issued the permit containing the specification.

On February 22, the White House announced actions under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to promote domestic production of critical minerals, lithium and lithium batteries, ...