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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 5.2.25

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The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) circulated a draft template, dated April 8, 2025, to assist federal agencies in updating their procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Energy Law: Month in Review - October 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month....more

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Supreme Court takes up interim storage case

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Today, the Supreme Court announced that it is taking up a case related to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (“NRC”) ability to license away-from-reactor interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. By hearing the case in the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Environment & Energy Insights (August 2024)

​Welcome to the August edition of Nutter’s Environment & Energy Insights, a monthly update of current trends in environment and energy law. This month we cover: EPA’s new Facility Response Plan requirements for potential...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 8, Issue 7, July 2024

Welcome to the seventh 2024 issue of Currents - our e-newsletter focused on energy topics. There are less than six months left for companies formed before January 1, 2024 to file their initial beneficial owner report...more

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Supreme Court Temporarily Halts EPA’s “Good Neighbor” Air Pollution Rule

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The Clean Air Act (“CAA”) envisions states and the federal government working together to improve air quality. Under the CAA, states must develop State Implementation Plans (“SIPs”) to implement National Ambient Air Quality...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Supreme Court Decision Limits Ability to Curb Ozone and Other Air Emissions

The Supreme Court has released its opinion in Ohio v. EPA, a case involving whether the federal government’s “good neighbor” ozone regulations were properly promulgated. This decision impacts the authority of the U.S....more

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Zoning and Development Newsletter - July 2023

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Sullivan's Permitting & Land Use Practice Group and Litigation Department have released the second issue of their Zoning and Development Newsletter. The publication aims to provide our firm's clients and others interested...more

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Chevron Deference on the Chopping Block?

Supreme Court to hear case that could change landmark precedent - Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that during its next term it will hear a case that could overturn Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, 467...more

Holland & Hart LLP

GHG Standards for the Power Sector: Is Third Time the Charm or Is It Déjà Vu?

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In the third attempt in less than 10 years, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule package (“Proposal”) that would apply strict greenhouse gas emissions standards to the fossil fuel-fired power sector. The...more

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Ten Environmental and Energy Issues to Watch in 2023

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What will happen in the environmental and energy space in 2023? The last year saw transformative changes in the environmental and energy space in the form of historic spending through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Energy & Sustainability Litigation Updates — August 2022

In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued its decision in West Virginia v. EPA, which held that, under the “major questions doctrine,” the EPA lacked the authority under the Clean Air Act to devise emissions caps based on the...more

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The Future of Federal Agency Rulemakings After West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

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The US Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA, 597 US ___ (2022), narrowly defined the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from...more

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West Virginia v. EPA Curtails Federal Climate Action

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) curtailed the agency’s authority to regulate emissions from power plants through rules shifting electricity generation from...more

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What Does the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision on Climate Regulation Mean for the Energy Industry?

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The Supreme Court ended its 2021 term with a much-anticipated decision in West Virginia v. EPA.1 The 6-to-3 decision held that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) does not have the authority under Section 111(d) of...more

White & Case LLP

Supreme Court Rules EPA Cannot Require Existing Fossil Fuel Power Facilities to Shift to Lower CO2 Emitting Sources of Electricity

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On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot use the Clean Air Act to require fossil fuel power facilities to implement a measure known as "generation shifting" without...more

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Supreme Court Requires Clear Congressional Authority for GHG Regulations Intended to “Remake the Energy Sector”

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One of the US Supreme Court’s final opinions this term addressed US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA). The decision in West Virginia v...more

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The Supreme Court Overturns the Clean Power Plan—Analysis and Key Takeaways

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated opinion in the case of West Virginia v. EPA regarding the agency’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) from new and existing coal- and gas-fired power...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Report on Supreme Court Argument in West Virginia v. EPA

On February 28, 2022, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in West Virginia v. EPA (consolidated with North American Coal Corp. v. EPA, Westmoreland Mining Holdings v. EPA, and North Dakota v. EPA), a case that has the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

State Law Climate Damage Cases (Still) Belong in State Court

In the first appellate decision to decide the issue since the Supreme Court decision in BP P.L.C. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, the 10th Circuit ruled this week that climate damage claims brought by several Colorado...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Not Dead (Yet?): After HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, The Renewable Fuels Standard’s...

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In its June 25, 2021 decision in HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, the Supreme Court rejected the central holding of a January 2020 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Extension of Renewable Fuel Program Extensions

On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al., Slip Op. 20-472 (June 25, 2021), which concerned small refiners’ eligibility for hardship exemptions...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, No. 20-472, holding that a small refinery can apply for a hardship exemption from the Environmental...more

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Big Win For Small Refineries

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On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with small oil refineries by making it easier for the companies to win exemptions from the existing mandate that they mix ethanol and other renewable fuels into gasoline and...more

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Climate Lawsuits Face Setbacks as they Raise Major Public Policy Issues

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The drive to litigate public policy over climate change took some hits the last two weeks in the United States Supreme Court. First, last Monday in the case of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P. L. C. et al.,...more

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