Podcast - Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA: The Intersection of Constitutional and Environmental Law
SCOTUS Clean Air Act Cases: What’s New?
Rewriting the Rules: The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision on Clean Water Act Permits
On-Demand Webinar | Regulatory Uncertainty and Linear Infrastructure Projects: Where Are We and What’s Ahead?
PFAS: Increasing Regulations and Managing Legal Liability
On-Demand Webinar | Linear Infrastructure Redux: Adapting Your Projects to Meet the New Regulatory Climate
The Current and Future Landscapes of EPA Criminal and Civil Enforcement
On-Demand Webinar | The New NEPA Regulations: A Practical Guide to What You Need to Know
One-on-One with David Fotouhi, Acting General Counsel at the EPA
Volatile Times in Vapor Intrusion Regulation: A Legal and Technical Update
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
The climate debate has whipsawed in recent years. Businesses frequently have been caught in the middle, with stakeholders including government regulators, activist investors, consumers, non-governmental organizations, and...more
On July 30, 2025, the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) filed suit against the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon Environmental Commission alleging that Oregon’s Plastic Pollution...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial climate disclosure rules have been essentially dead since last March, when the SEC voted to end its defense of the rules. ...more
As earlier reported, environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) have promised to pursue enforcement where the Biden EPA left off – they have the legal authority to do so under most environmental federal statutes and...more
On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado et al. This decision held that agencies are afforded substantial deference in National...more
As reported in our June 28, 2025, blog item, on June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit requesting that litigation over its 2024 final...more
In this episode of our "An Energized Exchange" podcast series, presented by the Energy & Natural Resources Industry Sector Group, attorneys Andy Kriha, Susan Lafferty and Zach Pilchen break down recent U.S. Supreme Court...more
The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) recently made certain announcements that reflect the current administration’s reduced emphasis on climate-related financial regulation. First, the SEC withdrew a proposed rulemaking...more
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit requesting that litigation over its 2024 final rule regulating chrysotile asbestos under the...more
In natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) cases, the discount rate used to convert effects across different time periods to present value equivalents is a critical parameter. This rate directly influences both the scale of...more
Science-based targets (SBTs) rely on scientific facts to achieve specific conditions or outcomes. SBTs reflect the best available science and set goals intended to prevent human activities from harming the environment....more
In a June 13, 2025 decision, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that a municipality impermissibly granted conditional use approval to an oil and gas well pad and interconnect facility on tax lots that were already...more
Last Friday, on June 20, the SEC withdrew guidance--dating from the George W. Bush administration--that indicated that “disclosure of environmental actions brought by a foreign government” was “require[d].” In effect, the...more
On March 31, 2025, a coalition of environmental groups in New York filed a lawsuit to compel the New York Department of Environmental Conservation ("DEC") to issue regulations implementing the Climate Leadership and Community...more
The Environmental Integrity Project and Kentucky Resources Council (collectively, “EIP”) filed a June 9th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to...more
EPA has again obtained extensions of the stays in the litigation challenging the MCLs for six PFAS and the litigation challenging the hazardous substance designation for PFOS and PFOA. EPA requested the U.S. Court of...more
THE EXPANDING SOURCES AND COSTS OF PFAS CONTAMINATION - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) investigation and litigation in the last few years has predominantly been focused on impacts which ultimately originate...more
EARTHJUSTICE on behalf of a number of other organizations submitted a June 4th document to three federal agencies styled: Request for Enforcement of Hazardous Materials Laws in U.S. Oil and Gas Fields (“Request”)....more
The Environmental Science & Technology Journal found in a 2025 study that 95% of 23 tested beers brewed across the United States contain varying levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are synthetic...more
On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court held that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — which requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of projects that they perform, fund, or approve — does not...more
On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, No. 23-975, 605 U.S. ___ (2025), sharply limiting the scope of environmental review obligations under the...more
On May 22, 2025, the New York Court of Appeals--the highest court in New York State--unanimously upheld New York City's Local Law 97 against a challenge brought by certain property owners. This law--Local Law 97--is “aimed...more
As the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Administrator Lee Zeldin lays out an ambitious regulatory agenda related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), state lawmakers, state attorneys general,...more
On May 29, 2025 the Supreme Court issued a decision that has the practical effect of reducing the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, and making it more likely that agency environmental reviews...more
A preliminary injunction motion is set for May, the judge issued a scheduling order, and CARB announced a public workshop to kick off a rulemaking to implement the laws....more