Jennifer Granholm features prominently as a chief seller of Biden’s climate and economic agenda this election year, crisscrossing the US promising CEOs and workers alike that a clean energy transition can create good-paying union jobs and revitalize manufacturing towns.
Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) in Hawaii: These are a few of the paid positions that job seekers can now apply for through the Biden administration’s American Climate Corps.
The federal government will have to take a harder look at environmental, social, and economic factors when picking sites for federal facilities under a final rule issued on Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the selection of 60 recipients of $7 billion in grant awards through the Solar for All grant competition, the agency said Monday.
When Miranda Sherman’s gas furnace suddenly died during a recent cold snap, she did what most Americans would do: She searched for “furnace won’t ignite” on Google, realized the machine was beyond repair and started calling contractors first thing in the morning.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
Petroleum Recovery and Remediation Management, Inc., will pay a $230,000 penalty to settle alleged Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Clean Water Act violations at its Baltimore facility, the EPA said Tuesday.
Recent budget cuts mean the EPA’s chemicals office will have to more carefully pick and choose what it can focus on, the department’s head told staffers on Tuesday.
An Eastern Tennessee partnership shouldn’t be entitled to an $8.9 million conservation easement deduction for donating 1,300 acres because only the easement’s adjusted basis can be deducted, not the its fair market value, the IRS said.
A Montana energy company prematurely brought claims that the Interior Department blew past a deadline to complete environmental analysis for the company’s mining permit application, the agency told a federal judge.
The National Marine Fisheries Service failed to approve a management plan for the Pacific sardine that will prevent overfishing, a federal judge in California ruled.
A lower court lawfully restricted Montana’s wolf trapping season, but the restrictions covered areas beyond where evidence suggests grizzly bears might be affected, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Martin Stratte has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth in the California environmental and litigation practices in the San Francisco office, the firm said Tuesday.
A state incentive program for solar farm expansion will be limited to up to 5% of any New Jersey county’s preserved farmland, a state appellate court ruled.
A global rulemaker decided Tuesday to research just two of four proposed topics for new standard setting—biodiversity and workforce skills—as it concentrates on helping companies use existing reporting rules.
A former Dykema Gossett PLLC administrative assistant failed to show the law firm fired her because of her age or her internal discrimination complaint, a federal appellate court said Tuesday.
Matt Whited has joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in the Chicago office, the firm said Tuesday.
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The former head of the company that owned the National Enquirer told a New York jury about how he killed stories about Donald Trump’s extramarital affairs to boost his 2016 presidential campaign.
Bob Coffield has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner with the corporate practice group in Huntington, W.Va., the firm said Monday.
Gwendolyn Williamson has joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the investment management practice group in the Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Tuesday.
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