Energy storage systems ("ESS") can help increase grid efficiency, facilitate the operation of increasing amounts of renewable energy, and lower energy costs, among other benefits.

On Thursday, EPA extended the compliance deadline for its General Permit for Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems for one year, until July 1, 2018.

On Tuesday, after months of waiting, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) took action on the Grid Modernization Plans filed last summer by the three Massachusetts Electric Distribution Companies...

On July 23, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources ("DOER") filed final regulations implementing a "Clean Peak Energy Standard," which formally went into effect on August 7, 2020.

At FERC's March 2024 Open Meeting, the Commissioners announced a new cooperative effort between FERC and the states: the Federal and State Current Issues Collaborative...

On September 15, the New York Public Service Commission ("Commission") issued orders modifying the Expanded Solar for All ("E-SFA") program and implementing several billing measures to address pervasive CDG billing delays by utilities.

The staged payment of purchase price is a near-universal feature of M&A in development-stage renewable energy and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported that MassDEP is considering promulgating new regulations to manage noise from on-shore wind turbines.

Yesterday, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers finalized their revisions to the definition of Waters of the United States.

In August, a judge in South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction against the "Suspension Rule," which delayed the effective date of the 2015 Waters of the United States rule. Now, a judge in Oregon has gone even further.

The Transmission Facilitation Program ("TFP"), a federal clean-energy initiative arising out of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...

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.

Last week, AEP announced that it was putting on hold its plans to develop commercial scale carbon capture and storage technology at its Mountaineer plant in New Haven, West Virginia.

On Tuesday, insurance giant AIG announced a major restructuring designed to make it a "more profitable and focused insurer."

One particularly complex issue arises in a private cost recovery action where some but not all the PRPs have settled with the private party.

According to the Daily Environment Report, EPA will meet its deadline of June 13, 2013 to promulgate a post-construction stormwater rule.

The Lower Fox River Superfund site continues to pump out decisions on key CERCLA issues. Most recently, the federal court in Wisconsin in "US v. NCR Corp." took on the issue of divisibility of harm in granting a preliminary injunction requiring one of the PRPs, NCR, to complete the removal of 660,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediments from a portion of the Lower Fox River.

For those of you who were skiing or snorkeling and missed it, on December 30, EPA announced a direct final rule incorporating the new ASTM 1527-13 standard for site assessments into its all appropriate inquiries rule.

Thursday afternoon, EPA and the Tennessee Valley Authority announced one of the largest pollution reduction consent decrees in US history – resulting in between $3 to $5 billion of investment in air pollution controls, and retirement of almost one-third of TVA’s coal-fired generating units within the next few years.