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EPA’s recently released Management Plan, under its "RE-Powering America’s Land" Initiative, lays out a two-year plan to advance the development of renewable energy facilities on contaminated sites, thus: (a) reducing the amount of green space that might otherwise be used for such facilities; (b) reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and (c) benefitting (whether through job creation, improved health conditions, or other benefits) the local communities where such facilities are sited.

On Aug. 23, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its results of efforts to study a variety of technologies used to remove Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water.

The Department of Interior has issued a sweeping reorganization order that fundamentally restructures how the federal government oversees offshore energy operations. By merging two major regulatory bureaus into a single entity, this administrative action aims to streamline oversight while maintaining safety and environmental standards. The transition will unfold in phases over the coming months, with implications for permitting, inspections, and enforcement across the outer continental shelf.

Linear Programming (LP)-based auction mechanisms are emerging as a transformative approach to market design, enabling the efficient allocation of resources in complex auction and trading environments.

As most observers expected, New York Governor Cuomo’s administration announced today that it would extend the ban on hydraulic fracturing in the state.

On June 7, 2012, the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy committee unanimously approved a bipartisan bill, S.253, that aims to prohibit the treatment of waste products from hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), in New Jersey.

Global warming legislation was enacted for the first time in Pennsylvania July 10, when Gov. Ed Rendell signed the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act.

Yesterday, President Joe Biden announced executive actions his administration will take to combat climate change.

President Trump has invoked Defense Production Act authorities to support energy infrastructure deemed essential to national defense, covering grid components, natural gas systems, coal supply chains, and petroleum capacity. The determinations create a legal pathway for the Department of Energy to deploy financial support mechanisms, though their practical impact will depend on funding availability and implementation decisions. The move has sparked debate over whether emergency authority is being appropriat

On February 3-5, the PLASTICS' Fluoropolymers Conference gathered several professionals involved with fluoropolymers to discuss the latest challenges, opportunities and technological shifts...

On Wednesday, August 29th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it was reconsidering an Obama-era rule on emissions of mercury from coal-fired plants.

On February 22, 2016, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled (2-1) that the Sixth Circuit was the appropriate venue for consideration of challenges, by both state and private-sector petitioners, to the WOTUS final rule.

On October 15, 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda the majority of the world's developed and developing countries executed a binding agreement to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons.

On Tuesday, Chief Judge Robert Chambers ruled that Fola Coal Company violated the Clean Water Act by discharging mine waste with sufficiently high levels of conductivity to cause or materially contribute to impairment of Stillhouse Branch.

The Energy Information Administration today released CO2 emissions numbers through 2016.

After a ruling by Judge Stephen V. Wilson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles Waterkeeper, et al v. Pruitt, et al, case number 2:17-cv-03454 (August 9, 2018).

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently issued a memorandum rolling out a new policy prohibiting settlement payments to third parties.