Each year during the regular session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly, the Climate Group—an international nonprofit that works to address climate change with government leaders and businesses—hosts Climate Week...more
Following decades of regulatory actions and lawsuits concerning the definition of “waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act, on December 30, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army...more
1/18/2023
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In Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, decided on the second to last day of the 2021-2022 term, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that Oklahoma had concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government over crimes committed by non-Indians...more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), sweeping legislation that commits $369 billion to combat climate change, fund clean energy and development, and address environmental justice. This...more
8/24/2022
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On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court published its opinion in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), involving challenges to the scope of the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP). The Court...more
On June 1, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released a Proposed Rule aimed at modifying the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) Section 401 Certification Process in response to regulatory changes made by the Trump...more
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed into law a ten-year extension of the Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP), including its tax credits as part of the 2022-23 NYS Budget (Budget) (Part LL of Assembly Bill...more
On March 14, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a direct final rule approving the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International Standard E1527-21 for Phase I environmental site assessments...more
On March 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosure for Investors” (Proposed Rule). Per the SEC’s...more
4/25/2022
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On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) to reclassify the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) from “threatened” to “endangered” under the...more
On Monday, January 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 19-35469 to decide “[w]hether the Ninth Circuit set forth the proper test for determining...more
On July 30, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (collectively, the Agencies) announced the beginning of their formal regulatory rulemaking to roll back the Trump...more
On June 9, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (collectively the Agencies) announced their intent to initiate a regulatory rulemaking to roll back the Trump...more