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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed state agencies to halt all data center permits until comprehensive audits assess the projects' impacts on electric infrastructure, residential ratepayers, and water resources. The directive requires data centers to fully fund necessary electric infrastructure and comply with enhanced reporting requirements, while the governor signals potential legislative action to codify new protections and phase out certain tax incentives.

Some of you may be old enough to remember the movie Wall Street and, if you are, you might remember that just before Bud is taken into federal custody, Lou says "man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him.

One of the most famous scenes in one of my favorite movies, A Few Good Men, is when Colonel Jessup tells Lieutenant Kaffee that he "can't handle the truth."

Lara Beaven of Inside EPA is reporting this morning that US Senators Braun, Ernst, and Grassley have filed legislation that would end the longest running controversy in environmental law by ...

This week the First Circuit Court of Appeals decided to rehear, en banc, the argument of a Massachusetts-based NGO that a 2014 Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection...

Earlier this year, we covered a decision from the District of Connecticut finding state law false advertising claims against the bottled water company Poland Spring preempted by the FDCA.

The United Nations General Assembly, the UN's primary policy-making body, has adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations...

President Trump has nominated Stuart Levenbach, an Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as CFPB director.

Last week, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals – not the most liberal court in the land – joined the 9th Circuit in ruling that discharges from a point source to groundwater can be subject to the Clean Water Act.

The revision of the rule defining "waters of the United States" ("WOTUS"; the "Post-Sackett Rule") has not resolved the litigation surrounding the WOTUS definition.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a call for information and nominations (Call) today inviting the public to comment on leasing areas off the Oregon coast for offshore wind energy.

The U.S. EPA announced new nationwide drinking water standards limiting the amount of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water.

On January 8, 2021, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ("OEHHA") proposed to amend the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986...

On November 13, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order directing the State Water Resources Control Board to extend the current emergency water conservation regulation.

A federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of several Trump administration policies that restricted renewable energy development on federal lands and waters. The ruling addresses Interior Department review procedures, database access restrictions, capacity density requirements, and permit prioritization directives that created barriers for wind and solar projects.

Operators in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale formation are taking steps to increase their ability to recycle wastewater generated during hydraulic fracturing operations.

Pursuant to President Trump's Executive Order (EO) on "Restoring the Rule of Law… by Reviewing the "Waters of the United States" Rule...

On March 25, 2019, and about 18 months after its formal application, Icebreaker Wind received a key construction permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.