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.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service will submit its endangered species determination for the imperiled longfin smelt by July 22, according to a judgment involving the agency and San Francisco Baykeeper.
Conservation groups told a federal appeals court that they have standing to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of more than 4,000 drilling permits in New Mexico and Wyoming.
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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 executive director of the International Legal Finance Association is leaving the trade group for a role as chief of staff to the new republican commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.
A Louisiana man lost an appeal seeking to undo his fraud convictions after Fifth Circuit said there was no problem with the district court’s decision to allow him to represent himself at trial.
The Texas Supreme Court said two out-of-state attorneys are permitted to defend age discrimination claims against
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