On February 9, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed EPA's "Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility."

In a January 24th Presidential Memorandum, President Trump urged the Commerce Department to develop a "permitting streamlining action plan" recommending policy and procedural changes that will boost domestic manufacturing.

The TVA has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to review an August 4 Order by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to dig up and remove coal ash...

When the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California invalidated the Trump Administration's attempted one-year delay of the EPA rule limiting formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products...

The Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has concluded that the Clean Air Act ("Act") operating permit for the Piedmont Green Power facility issued by the Georgia EPD in 2015 is inadequate...

The U.S. EPA determined in December 2018 that it would not impose additional pollution control requirements on power plants in 20 upwind states whose

The U.S. EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has set accelerated cleanup at Superfund sites as an Agency goal for 2018.

As mentioned in prior blog posts, the Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate and need 50 out of 52 Republicans to vote for the health care bill.

Last night Senator Mitch McConnell admitted defeat of the Senate's health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).

Yesterday, the "repeal bill" known as the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act (ORRA) failed to win enough votes for passage, losing 45-55.

In a late night session ending at 1:30 a.m. on Friday, the Republicans' seven-year promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act(ACA) appeared to end, at least for the time being.

Section 1201 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") prohibits breaking technological locks protecting copyrighted content.

SGR IP attorneys Greg Kirsch, Dr. Gibson Lanier, and Matt Warenzak will be attending the annual meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) in San Diego February 14-17, 2016.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain recently denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., a video game developer, publisher and marketer ...

The Trump Administration announced that effective October 28, it will be eliminating a loophole granted four months ago on tariffs for bifacial solar panels.

On Saturday, October 24, a U.S. Trade Court temporarily blocked the Trump administrations' attempt to close a tariff loophole for double-sided solar panels.

Last month we distributed a bulletin describing recent New York State legislation affecting cooperatives and condominium unit owners.

In a January 24th Presidential Memorandum, President Trump urged the Commerce Department to develop a "permitting streamlining action plan"...

Fall 2020 Aviation Webinar Series: Part 6 – Technically Aware: Understanding Maintenance and other Technical Issues in Aviation Transactions

On March 26, 2024, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. Spanning the Port of Baltimore, the Bridge was one of the busiest in the United States, handling more than 444,000 passengers...