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On October 11, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1319 into law, establishing a new California Endangered Species Act (CESA) mechanism for California to extend state-level endangered species...

Crypto-assets such as Bitcoin are often criticized for consuming more energy than entire countries as a result of energy-intensive "mining" activities.

The changes to MSHA's workplace examination rule governing metal and nonmetal mines have garnered significant attention. Stakeholders fought back against the original proposed ...

On July 1, 2024, Vermont's Climate Superfund Act (S 259) went into effect. The law, which is the first of its kind, imposes strict liability on fossil fuel extractors...

On 30 April 2025, the Governments of Ukraine and the United States of America signed an Agreement on the Establishment of a United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (the "Agreement"). The official final draft of the Agreement in English and Ukrainian was published by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 1 May 2025

Last month, the High Court ruled that planning permission previously granted for a coal mine in West Cumbria was unlawful (Friends of the Earth v West Cumbria Mining [2024]...

On June 27, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring certain producers of oil, natural gas and minerals to publicly disclose information regarding payments to the U.S. federal government...

"A fisher[man] who can no longer eat the fish he catches because the water has been polluted might immediately understand the environmental impact but may not know that access to safe and nutritious food is actually a human right to which he is entitled."

The Ohio Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling on whether a 1953 deed's reservation of "coal or other minerals of any vein" includes oil and gas rights. The decision examines how specific language choices and the absence of oil-and-gas-related terminology in deed reservations can determine the scope of mineral rights, potentially reshaping how courts interpret similar conveyances across the state.

A Master Limited Partnership or MLP (sometimes called a publicly traded partnership or PTP), is an attractive business entity because it is treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes even though the ownership interests in the MLP are publicly traded.

A new mining code was voted by the Ivorian Parliament on March 5.

A new mining code was voted by the Ivorian Parliament on March 5. Current mining titles will be valid for their remaining term but their renewals will be subject to the provisions of the New Mining Code.

The District of Columbia Circuit issued its long-anticipated ruling in the industry challenge to the SEC's conflict minerals rules.

The Trump Administration has made it clear that it intends to increase the United States's production of critical minerals, with a focus on copper, through its implementation of the "Unleashing American Energy"...

This newsletter provides a snapshot of the principal US and selected global governance and securities law developments during the second quarter of 2014.

Amid escalating tensions in the tech and trade war between the United States and China, the latter has announced a ban on the export of certain rare minerals to the United States.

The United States is taking steps to secure access to critical minerals as geopolitical competition and supply chain pressures intensify.

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