The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has recently proposed a new rule and the U.S. Congress has recently enacted a new law affecting the global renewable fuel industry....more
In an important decision under California’s Proposition 65, a federal court recently ruled that businesses cannot be required to provide a product warning under Proposition 65 where there is no scientific consensus on whether...more
5/9/2025
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The National Environmental Policy Act has drawn congressional and presidential frustration for long over a decade and the regulations of the body it created—the Council on Environmental Quality—have often been caught in the...more
4/22/2025
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As part of a package of new climate change legislation, on October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (“VCMDA” or “AB 1305”). Intended as an effort to reduce...more