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On December 11, 2015, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules requiring resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to the U.S. federal government...

In July, Senator Mark Begich worked on drafting federal legislation to create a Regional Citizens Advisory Council for Alaska’s North Slope.

The U.S. Department of the Interior ("DOI") has announced "emergency" permitting procedures to accelerate energy and critical mineral projects (DOI official announcement here) under Executive Order ("EO") 14156, Declaring a National Energy Emergency.

Dormant minerals acts, no matter their style, have the power to significantly affect property rights and mineral development.

In this article, the authors review the Trump administration's recent efforts with respect to the critical minerals...

The boom in battery demand — for EVs, grid energy storage applications, and consumer electronics — has raised concerns over the scale of the industry's dependence on critical materials in finite supply, such as lithium...

On March 25, 2025, President Trump's Executive Order 14241, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, was published in the Federal Register.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), Transportation Security Administration ("TSA") has adopted final regulations ("Rail Security Regulations"), 73 Fed. Reg. 72130, as codified at 49 CFR Part 1580, intended to improve the security of both freight and passenger rail transportation by addressing the vulnerabilities presented by America's open infrastructure rail system.

Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced progress on its long-term plan to lease areas for critical mineral development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

2018 was a banner year for M&A activity in the energy space, with numerous high dollar value transactions in the upstream, midstream, downstream and oil field services (OFS) segments.

In the past two years, environmental non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have attempted to block Ex-Im Bank funding for a number of foreign projects.

At an open meeting on August 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final rule on disclosure of the use of conflict minerals originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country, implementing Section 13(p) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, the U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Labor, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...

Critical minerals, which include rare earth minerals, are generally defined as minerals that are important to supply chains, but difficult to mine and ship due to scarcity, geopolitical issues, trade policy...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in the challenge to the SEC’s conflict minerals disclosure rule.

Recently, the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released unofficial guidance in a question and answer format providing responses to certain interpretive questions that have arisen in connection with Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

On December 11, 2015, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued a proposed rule to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The European Union may soon join the United States in requiring certain companies to investigate and disclose whether certain minerals used in their products originated in conflict-affected or high-risk areas.