Future decisions the EPA makes about whether chemicals are so risky that their commercial uses must be restricted will be made using statutory interpretations and policies the Biden administration already has been using, according to a final rule the agency released Tuesday.
The Biden administration is taking steps to jump-start the fledgling offshore wind sector, outlining a five-year leasing plan that would include turbines in the far reaches of the Pacific.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to act when New York didn’t implement a plan addressing its noncompliance with Clean Air Act standards, according to a new lawsuit 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.
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 Biden administration’s proposed rules to qualify for the 45V hydrogen production tax credit will constrain the Energy Department’s $8 billion hydrogen hub program if changes aren’t made to the final guidance, according to industry officials.
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A growing push by states to make top polluters pay for years of carbon emissions is unexplored territory for climate change law and likely to spark court battles, legal educators say.
A wind energy project off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard can proceed after the First Circuit found government agencies properly considered its impact on whales.
The US Forest Service unlawfully approved two large logging projects in Giant Sequoia National Monument and Sequoia National Forest, environmental groups said in a federal lawsuit filed in California.
Fossil fuel use will be banned in new federal buildings starting in 2030 under a Biden administration rule that the natural gas industry fought for more than a decade.
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Environmental groups have settled a lawsuit against the Interior Department over offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Interior Department adequately considered climate change in its management decisions for the Colorado River’s Glen Canyon Dam, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
New Jersey officials won their bid to get their case against
Lawyers are seeking $217 million in fees for their work crafting a settlement this month in a class action lawsuit alleging Alphabet Inc.'s Google improperly retained users’ web data while they used a private browsing setting.
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Derek Smith Law Group PLLC was properly sanctioned with an order to pay an opposing party’s $81,439 in attorneys’ fees, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
General Motors Co.'s legal chief, Craig Glidden, earned $11.3 million in 2023, according to a GM proxy statement released by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Morris Nichols Arsht Tunnell, a boutique firm based in Wilmington, Delaware, is boosting salaries for first-year associates to $210,000 as it seeks to better compete for talent.
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