Energy Department Allocates $62 Million for Battery Recycling
The Department of Energy has made $62 million in funding available for 17 projects related to battery recycling, according to a Thursday news release.
Regulatory requirements for safer, more sustainable chemicals don’t always align with governmental clean energy and other goals, according to speakers at a chemical regulations conference.
The Biden administration announced Wednesday a conditional loan commitment of up to $1.52 billion for a loan guarantee to help restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan, a significant move to keep reactors running as a major source of zero-carbon power and high-paying jobs.
Planned improvements to speed and enhance new chemical reviews may be paused as the EPA decides how to allocate cuts Congress recently made to its fiscal year 2024 budget.
The Biden administration wants the Tennessee Valley Authority to reevaluate preferred plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant to replace an aging coal facility scheduled to close by 2027, finding deficiencies in the federally owned utility’s environmental review.
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 Department of Energy has made $62 million in funding available for 17 projects related to battery recycling, according to a Thursday news release.
Methane spewing from major US landfills is on average 40% greater than reported, according to a new study published in Science in which scientists used aerial surveys to identify point source emissions from hundreds of waste sites.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday finalized three rules for implementing the Endangered Species Act, including how the agency will protect habitat for imperiled plants and animals.
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Tony Townley, co-founder of the Zaxby’s restaurant chain, and his wife Elizabeth must resolve their $43.3 million tax refund suit with the IRS at trial to determine the proper value of their donated conservation easements, a federal court said.
Saudi Arabia’s government may start selling green bonds for the first time as the world’s biggest oil exporter seeks to raise money for environmentally-friendly projects and a transition away from fossil fuels that are the backbone of its economy.
A Federal Highway Administration rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for carbon dioxide emissions on highways is unlawful, a federal judge in Texas ruled.
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A coalition of national and local advocacy organizations moved to join in litigation over tougher soot rules, filing a motion to intervene late Wednesday.
The lead counsel for Russian litigation firm A1 announced Thursday that he has left the company, writing in a social media post that he is ready for “a new chapter in my career.”
Adeel Mangi’s historic federal appellate court nomination started out as a celebratory moment for fellow Muslim lawyers—but, for them, it has now become a familiar spectacle.
A federal judge said looming deadlines and the US Supreme Court’s inaction forced her to allow South Carolina to use a redistricting map the court previously found disadvantaged Black voters.
Latvian authorities have arrested and plan to extradite to the US a local man over his work for a Kansas-based company in the alleged smuggling of avionics equipment through third countries destined for Russia, in violation of US export controls, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
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Zachary Rothenberg has joined Polsinelli as a shareholder in the health care litigation and disputes practice in the Los Angeles office, the firm said Thursday.
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