The Biden administration is cracking down on planet-warming pollution from the nation’s electricity sector, with mandates likely to encourage the closure of coal plants that advocates argue are vital to meet surging power demand.
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Power plants face updated air toxics requirements targeting mercury and heavy metals in newly finalized standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday.
The EPA finalized a rule to mandate coal ash cleanup at inactive power plants, part of a group of related rules announced Thursday by the administration.
The Biden administration has selected an electric transmission line project to receive up to $331 million to bring wind energy from Idaho to Nevada, the latest move to back the connection of more renewable energy to the power grid.
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.
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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A Ute tribe can proceed with some claims that the US government mismanaged water resources and water-related infrastructure for the tribe’s use, after the Federal Circuit on Thursday partially revived its lawsuit.
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.
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.
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The US Supreme Court suggested it might drag out
Michigan law firm Lipton Law Center PC can go to trial on its claim that Colorado firm Andrus Wagstaff PC didn’t pay Lipton for work the firms did together representing Larry Nassar abuse victims.
The US Supreme Court has never addressed whether a president has the power to pardon themselves and that unanswered question was one that loomed over proceedings in Donald Trump’s appeal for immunity from criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Teresa M. L. Tate has joined Reed Smith as a partner in the global corporate group in the San Francisco office, the firm said Thursday.
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