Companies will have to pay millions of dollars to clean up more contaminated sites due to the EPA’s new Superfund PFAS rule, but site selection will take time and use predictable criteria, mandated data, and established processes, attorneys said.
US energy regulators should consider the possible consumer harms that could result from a policy that allows investment companies to take up to 20% control of public utilities, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission said in comments Thursday.
The Biden administration issued new minimum energy standards for homes built with federal dollars, a move that the government says will result in millions in annual cost savings for renters and homeowners.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 2-1 on Thursday to authorize the construction of three natural gas expansion projects, with the dissenting member arguing they fell short of the law.
States, cities, and advocacy organizations are throwing their support behind the EPA’s latest round of tailpipe emission rules, which are under legal fire from Republican-led challengers.
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.
Companies will have to pay millions of dollars to clean up more contaminated sites due to the EPA’s new Superfund PFAS rule, but site selection will take time and use predictable criteria, mandated data, and established processes, attorneys said.
Paul Weiss has been stymied in its effort to open a Houston office, as top equity partners at rival firms spurned recruitment efforts.
Patrick Pouyanne, the head of Paris-listed TotalEnergies SE, is on a mission to prove there’s a middle way, boosting fossil-fuel production and using the proceeds to finance increased renewable electricity output. It’s a model that others should replicate — and policymakers should encourage.
The partnership behind a 1,500-acre conservation easement donation owes the IRS an accuracy-related penalty for claiming a tax deduction of nearly 10 times more than the contribution’s $4.6 million fair market value, the US Tax Court said Thursday.
Several states are challenging an Interior Department rule aiming to reduce natural gas waste from oil and gas production from leases on federal and Native American land.
The US Forest Service unlawfully approved a logging project that would impact 177,706 acres of aspens and conifers in Ashley National Forest, environmental groups said in a federal lawsuit filed in Utah.
The First Circuit blocked another challenge related to a wind energy project off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, finding that the National Marine Fisheries Service complied with federal law in authorizing pile-driving noise during construction that could harass whales.
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OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker, is expanding its global people-powered lobbying, policy, and messaging teams, as it works to shape government rules for artificial intelligence, and to win converts for its tools from Capitol Hill to far-flung foreign countries.
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