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On June 20, 2014, the Department of Labor announced its intention to change the regulatory definition of who is a "spouse" for purposes of the FMLA.

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court expands the protections against retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Last week, AIG significantly restricted its underwriting of and investment in fossil fuel projects. Specifically, it announced the following actions:

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 "game-changing" technologies to advance the Biden Administration's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

Last week, Boston released its Climate Action Plan 2019 Update. The Update identifies "priority actions" for the next five years necessary to put Boston on a trajectory towards carbon neutrality

Last month, the New York Times reported on the identification of the largest cluster of advanced black lung cases ever reported. (And lest you think that this is fake news...

Earlier this week, the Council on Environmental Quality promulgated its Phase I rule amending the NEPA regulations. The final rule largely implements the proposed rule, though with some minor changes.

This afternoon, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) released the much-anticipated results of the competitive procurement that will set the base compensation rates for the SMART program.

Distributed generation (DG) projects across the Commonwealth have been stalled in the midst of the "Cluster Study" impacting National Grid's service territory in central and western Massachusetts.

The Act also codifies an existing Cuomo Administration commitment to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

On April 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission") Chairman Neil Chatterjee announced additional steps the Commission is taking...

Two FERC Commissioners are asking electric transmission providers to introduce "cure periods" into their interconnection procedures, hoping to reduce the likelihood that energy projects...

The operators of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI Inc., announced yesterday that all of the 12,565,387 CO2 allowances offered for sale in the first RGGI auction on September 25, 2008 were purchased at $3.07 per allowance.

A successful energy transition depends on the timely interconnection of new resources to the electric grid at both the transmission level and the distribution level.

Yesterday, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, creating a law that contains the most significant climate-related incentives in U.S. history.

As we noted then, we should note now that developers and individuals ought to review this and any other PLR with their own tax counsel, accountants, and tax preparers in light of their own specific facts.

Last month the PSC issued its draft regulations. The proposed regulations would cap statewide program capacity at 218 MW and credit the power generated by approved community solar projects at the full retail rate.