Blatt to Set Supreme Court Record for Women With 50th Argument
Lisa Blatt isn’t afraid to tell a US Supreme Court justice they’re making stuff up, inject herself in her own hypotheticals, or talk like she’s debating friends at a bar.
Conservation is now defined as a “use” of public land in a rule the Interior Department finalized Thursday—a move widely expected to be challenged in court because Western states with oil, gas, and mineral resources fear it will stifle drilling and mining.
The EPA has issued a new internal policy that could have a dramatic effect on whether enforcement cases are pursued as civil or criminal matters, and how easily that decision can change in midstream.
The Biden administration’s final emissions rule for cars will force an unrealistic transition to electric vehicles, according to a petition for review filed Thursday by a troop of Republican-led states.
Renewable energy company Siemens Energy Inc. and Danish electrolyzer manufacturer Topsoe A/S are among dozens of recipients of around $2 billion in clean energy tax credits set to be announced Friday by the Biden administration.
The Biden administration is weighing ways to support the market for critical materials such as copper, nickel, silicon and electrical steel, as the industry faces price pressures and outsize influence from China.
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.
Lisa Blatt isn’t afraid to tell a US Supreme Court justice they’re making stuff up, inject herself in her own hypotheticals, or talk like she’s debating friends at a bar.
California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone state entirely starting in July.
The fate of a liquefied natural gas export project that has been at the center of a political firestorm over climate change and energy policy has been hit with another delay.
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New York lawmakers are set to approve several tax policy changes for fiscal 2025, including a repeal of the cannabis potency tax and a sales tax exemption for residential energy storage.
Will Wagner has returned to Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder with the Proposition 65 and green chemistry practice in Sacramento, the firm said Thursday.
A California nonprofit in charge of maintaining a wetland preserve was mostly successful in its bid for a quick win against a public works department that allegedly discharged polluted stormwater from a waste facility.
An EU value-added tax exemption for companies’ foreign operations that aren’t considered “fixed establishments” may need to be redefined in the context of increased automation.
A Biden rule imposing stricter tailpipe emission standards on automakers for new vehicles survived a Senate vote on a measure that would have gutted it.
The US Labor Department is pursuing some of the toughest remedies for child labor violations, such as company profits, an escalation the agency’s top lawyer says is needed to end an alarming trend of minors working in dangerous conditions.
A patent licensing company that squeezed $40 million out of Amazon is still fighting with the law firm that helped it land the settlement, two decades later.
Lisa Blatt isn’t afraid to tell a US Supreme Court justice they’re making stuff up, inject herself in her own hypotheticals, or talk like she’s debating friends at a bar.
Madeline Meth and Brian Wolfman applaud their client’s SCOTUS win, and say the Title VII opinion didn’t signal intent to undermine DEI at work.
Holland & Knight’s John Hoover questions US efforts to target corporate jet use, saying such travel supports job creation and related tax laws are already complex.
The Institute for Justice’s Elyse Smith Pohl says the qualified immunity doctrine often allows public officials to avoid consequences for violating civil rights.
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