Trading Carbon Credits Globally Creates Corporate Tax Challenges
Corporations are increasingly turning to tax lawyers to help manage intercompany pricing transactions involving the buying and selling of carbon credits.
Coal leasing would be blocked on federal land in eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming under two final environmental reviews published by the Interior Department Thursday.
House Republicans assailed the White House’s new environmental permitting rule during a Thursday hearing, at times indicating how the standard might be challenged in court.
Oil and gas industry groups challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s latest rule on mineral leasing, calling it “a sea change.”
Tougher EPA rules governing carcinogenic air emissions from chemical manufacturing facilities drew a petition for review Thursday.
The EPA failed to verify data it used to allot $3 billion in infrastructure funding for lead water pipe replacement in 2023, possibly directing the money away from where it’s needed most to prevent lead poisoning, the agency’s watchdog said Thursday.
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.
Corporations are increasingly turning to tax lawyers to help manage intercompany pricing transactions involving the buying and selling of carbon credits.
At least four people were killed and more than 840,000 customers in Texas — about 7% of the total — were without power after an intense rainstorm swept through the Houston area Thursday evening.
The Biden administration is initiating a suite of policies it says will help foster a deeper domestic supply chain for solar panels, following pleas from US manufacturers confronting a surge of tariff-free imports.
The US Army Corps of Engineers allegedly violated federal law when it approved an ecological project without updating decades-old impact research, threatening a Louisiana swamp’s future, a new lawsuit says.
Tougher EPA rules governing carcinogenic air emissions from chemical manufacturing facilities drew a petition for review Thursday.
Legislation to make large polluters pay for the damage caused by climate change in California advanced from a key state committee on Thursday.
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Chubb shareholders voted against proposals Thursday asking the company to issue a report detailing the carbon footprint of companies it works with and another study revealing pay-equity gaps.
BSH Home Appliances Corp.,
Kirkland & Ellis’s Lauren Schweitzer analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent copyright decision and identifies open questions about wehther the discovery rule applies to copyrights.
Goulston & Storrs’s Brian Carrozza, Baker Donelson’s Courtney Hudson, and stage’s Megan Senese explain that lateral partner integration requires firms to provide a business development liaison who will help the new partner with a first-year road map.
Consultant David Wood explains law firm succession plans, saying clients are flexing their muscles to influence next-in-line choices.
Legislation to make large polluters pay for the damage caused by climate change in California advanced from a key state committee on Thursday.
Top partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are expected to earn more than $20 million this year after the Wall Street law firm widened the spread between its highest and lowest-paid equity partners.
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