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On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14154, "Unleashing American Energy," which requires all agencies to

On October 25, 2022, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) over the agency's failure to timely finalize a proposed rule...

In the latest episode of Digging Into Land Use Law, Lori Anne Dolqueist and Alex Van Roekel discuss in detail the "Making Conservation a California Way of Life Framework" regulations and the impact...

The PFAS landscape is evolving quickly, bringing new challenges and opportunities for organizations across the public and private sectors. This discussion explores recent legal and regulatory developments, funding opportunities for cleanup and infrastructure improvements, and emerging litigation trends.

Corey Boock was interviewed during an episode of The Bond Buyer Podcast regarding the current P3 landscape amid an influx of federal infrastructure funding.

This is an important update to our December 6 eAlert on the nationwide injunction suspending the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). (The CTA requires that corporations, LLCs and other business entities...

After two more months of appeals, countermanding court orders, more lawsuits and total chaos, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday February 18, 2025, lifted the last of the nationwide injunctions against ...

A proposed $1M civil penalty against Colonial Pipeline for its procedural failures during a ransomware attack could indicate what's in store for critical infrastructure operators...

California's rapid expansion of data centers to support AI and other technologies has created an unexpected challenge: finding suitable locations for the massive electrical infrastructure needed to power these facilities. While the California Independent System Operator has approved new processes to accelerate connections for large electricity users, the real estate and right-of-way issues surrounding substations, transmission lines...

To mitigate the effects of climate change and years of drought, California plans to double the amount of recycled water produced in the state by 2040 – but is producing more water enough?

On February 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's denial of a petition filed by the New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association urging the Service to remove the ...

On Tuesday, September 26, President Biden vetoed two Republican-sponsored joint resolutions, S.J. Res. 9 and S.J. Res. 24, seeking to undo Endangered Species Act (ESA)...

On April 3, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) rejected a petition filed by a group of environmental organizations under section 4(e) of the Endangered Species Act...

On September 30, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a proposed rule to amend its eagle permit regulations (Proposed Rule)...

This pivotal opinion has major implications for effluent limitations and other conditions that may be imposed on discharges in NPDES permits under the CWA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. Issuance of NPDES permits is being delayed while regulatory agencies sort through the Supreme Court opinion.

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court and held that insurer Atlantic Specialty (as successor to One Beacon) had a duty to defend an employee's suit against his employer, a semiconductor manufacturer. In the underlying claim, the employee alleged exposure to chemicals at work caused birth defects in his son and sought $270M in damages.

Two recent court decisions on opposite coasts have delivered significant victories for policyholders seeking environmental insurance coverage, establishing important precedents for coverage disputes...