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On July 28, 2011, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposed broad ranging and stringent air regulations applicable to the Oil and Natural Gas Production source category including for the first time performance standards applicable to hydraulic fracturing operations.

During the first week of his second term, President Trump issued a slew of executive orders (EOs) and presidential memorandums that directly target environmental and climate initiatives addressed by previous administrations.

The Fiscal Year 2027 President’s Budget (“FY27 PB”) for the US Department of Energy (DOE) is only the initial step in a process that will continue through congressional deliberations and appropriations...

On June 27, the SEC adopted Rule 13q-1 under the Exchange Act and related amendments to Form SD.

On December 15, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules relating to disclosure of (i) use of "conflict minerals" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries, (ii) mine safety information and (iii) payments made to governments by resource extraction issuers relating to the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals.

Editor’s Note: After this bylined article appeared (in June 2013), the SEC’s resource extraction payments disclosure rule was vacated on July 2, 2013 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

On September 30, 2026, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee Chair Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) unveiled the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA; S. 5653), a comprehensive permitting reform package aimed at accelerating approvals for energy, infrastructure, transmission, mining, manufacturing, and other major projects. The legislation represents the most significant bipartisan permitting reform effort in years and follows months of negotiations between Senate Republicans and Democrats.

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The past dozen years have borne witness to astonishing growth in the frac sand industry.

On April 24, 2025, President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for critical minerals beneath...

Presently, it appears that the OECD's supplement for gold is the only nationally or internationally recognized due diligence framework for any conflict mineral from recycled or scrap sources.

The Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") has garnered criticism from the European Union ("EU") due in large part to its domestic sourcing requirements. Some in Canada have echoed this criticism...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed significant new reporting and supply-chain due diligence requirements relating to the use of so-called "conflict minerals."

With the push toward clean energy and increased demand for electric vehicles, manufacturers need batteries — specifically lithium-ion batteries — more than ever.

For years, the US has relied heavily on imports of these minerals from countries such as China and Russia.

The US Geological Survey has identified up to 2.3 million metric tons of economically recoverable lithium in the Appalachian region, potentially meeting US import needs for over three centuries. As global lithium demand is projected to quintuple by 2040, both the Biden and Trump administrations have deployed executive orders, federal funding, and interagency coordination to accelerate domestic lithium production and reduce dependence on foreign imports. State governments from Mississippi to California are a

On October 31, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final rule

Continuing the administration's strategy to enhance domestic mining and processing of minerals and to minimize the United States' reliance on imports, on March 20, 2025...