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The D.C. Court of Appeals denied the appellants’ emergency motion for a stay of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Conflict Minerals rules.

In a 2–1 decision on January 21, 2021, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) shed additional light on what is and is not a flagrant violation of the Mine Act.

Operators and miners often say that "MSHA never changes."

About this time last year, I wrote a little primer on a not very well-known but critically important hard rock mineral, trona.

The convergence of geopolitics and the transition to green technologies has put the critical minerals supply chain in the policy spotlight as risks...

The White House has issued three presidential determinations under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act targeting domestic energy infrastructure, coal supply chains, and large-scale power generation capacity.

The Proposed Rule Could Set a Precedent for Other Industries and Directly Impact Financial Institutions

Anadarko wished to produce minerals beneath the Chaparral Wildlife Management Area controlled by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

On May 16, 2025 the Texas Supreme Court released its opinion in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Underground Services Markham, LLC, 2025 WL 1415892 (Tex. May 16, 2025).

A critical component of the Biden Administration's program to transition the country to a less carbon-intensive economy is access to "critical minerals" such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and other

The U.S. is the world's largest uranium consumer, using 25% of the global supply of uranium. Despite large domestic uranium resources, over 90% of the U.S. uranium supply is imported from ...

On March 15, 2023, EPA finalized its Good Neighbor Plan under the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), a rule designed to reduce smog-forming nitrogen oxide ("NOx") pollution from power plants...

As many interested environmental and industry groups have lauded and bemoaned respectively, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") recently finalized its enforcement priorities for 2011 through 2013.

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) has released a statement expressing its view that certain proof-of-work network mining activities do not involve...

The front-runner in Peru's Presidential run-off election, Pedro Castillo, has vowed to extract substantially more in payments from mining companies, renegotiate tax stabilization agreements, or potentially even nationalize the mining industry.

On Monday, June 29, 2004, the United States Supreme Court issued a compromise decision that leaves many corporations in the mining or oil and gas industries still susceptible to allegations that their operations abroad (often in conjunction with foreign governments) have inflicted labor or human rights abuses on foreign workers, but which may help limit the types of claims they face.

The Seventh District of the State of Ohio issued its opinion in the matter of Walker v. Noon.

The transportation and logistics sector has always been one that is heavily regulated, both by pertinent federal agencies and by various state agencies.