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In July 2014, the Council of the District of Columbia adopted and the then-mayor signed the Sustainable DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2014, DC Law 20-385.

A whistleblower was recently denied any portion of the Government's recovery in a False Claims case despite the Government obtaining a settlement of approximately $322 million.

U.S. District Judge John R. Adams of the Northern District of Ohio has recently dismissed Ohio landowners’ claim that oil and gas leases not properly notarized are invalid.

Beating its self-imposed June deadline by one business day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed "renewable volume obligations" (RVOs) for 2014-2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program last Friday.

Fairfax County, Virginia, recently released updated recommendations for data center development in the county, including potential changes to the comprehensive...

NextEra recently acquired Hawaiian Electric Industries ("HEI") in a transaction valued at $4.3 billion, subject to Hawaii Public Utilities Commission approval and approval by HEI shareholders.

The government’s seven decades-long monopoly over Mexican oil and gas development may soon be over, if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has his way. On Aug. 12, Mr. Peña Nieto submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican legislature that would open Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to foreign and private partners.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has recently issued a decision granting an SEC motion for summary judgment to a challenge to the far-reaching SEC Conflict Minerals Rule.

A U.S. District Judge has denied a motion for summary judgment filed by oil and gas producer defendants, thus, enforcing the notion that an oil and gas producer can commit a trespass by engaging in hydraulic fracturing.

The Wall Street Journal released its Energy Report this week laying out potential future scenarios of what the energy landscape will look like in the next two decades.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has recently overturned the United States District Court for the District of Columbia’s ruling in the case of Mingo Logan Coal Company v. United States Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that at its open meeting scheduled for January 27, 2010, it will consider a recommendation to publish an interpretive release to provide guidance to public companies regarding the Commission's current disclosure requirements concerning matters relating to climate change.

In a consent order issued against Flagstar Bank, F.S.B., the CFPB cited multiple legal violations by Flagstar in its default servicing practices.

On Thursday, the CFPB and the Department of Justice filed a joint complaint against the second-largest private mortgage company in the United States alleging it engaged in discriminatory lending practices from 2006 to at least 2011.

The complaint alleges that the defendants, in violation of the Dodd-Frank Act, deceived consumers, and notably veterans, concerning the costs and risks associated with the pension advances.

On Jan. 31, 2014, five federal agencies each adopted a common interim final rule that would permit banking entities to retain investments in collateralized debt obligations backed primarily by trust preferred securities.