Environmental restrictions in the Biden administration’s draft plan to open up public lands for solar development could make many proposed projects impossible to build, developers and some environmental groups have told federal officials.
More than $630 billion in unfunded clean water infrastructure is needed nationally by 2042 to treat wastewater, control stormwater, and prevent pollution in streams, EPA said in a report published Tuesday.
Business groups and trade associations are seeking a quick win against the Environmental Protection Agency in their challenge to a final rule that they say imposed “impossible-to-meet” water quality standards for Washington state.
New York City will take control of 120 acres of Brooklyn’s coastline, intending to develop a rugged patch of land into housing, retail, green space, and a modern, environmentally friendly port.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is calling for a halt to the implementation of EPA’s latest carbon emission rules, according to a request filed late Monday.
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.
Environmental groups were denied a preliminary pause on two Arizona mining projects after an appeals panel ruled Wednesday that a district court correctly rebuffed their bid for injunctive relief.
The Federal Highway Administration was successful in its bid to be dismissed from consolidated cases challenging a series of transportation projects in Utah.
The Navy was able to put on hold some claims in a lawsuit over spills from its fuel storage facility in Hawaii that allegedly polluted nearby water used by residents.
Top congressional Republicans are warning an independent US agency charged with approving natural gas export projects not to delay them, arguing its independence from the Biden administration is on the line.
Arizona’s tax agency improperly excluded investment tax credits from the valuation of renewable energy equipment, violating state property tax law, the Arizona Court of Appeals said.
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The US Commerce Department on Wednesday opened an investigation into allegations that solar cells and panels imported from four Southeast Asian countries are being unfairly subsidized and priced below their production costs.
First Solar and Qcells are among the companies seeking duties on cells and panels from several major Asian suppliers, saying the equipment is being unfairly subsidized and priced below the cost of production. They have cast their petition as a way to help US solar manufacturing, as President Joe Biden tries to wrest control of green energy supply chains away from China.
A collection of 25 trade associations are calling on the Treasury Department to issue regulations on the Section 45Z clean fuels production credit as companies mull plans in the space.
Brent M. Douglas has joined Snell & Wilmer as a partner in the labor and employment practice group in the San Diego office, the firm said Tuesday.
The full Fifth Circuit seems ready to rework one of its precedents on bringing civil rights claims although it’s wrestling with how to do so.
Gregory M. Fliszar has joined Baker Donelson as a shareholder with the firm’s health law group in its Nashville office, the firm said Wednesday.
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Myles F. Reynolds has been appointed managing partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Dallas and Austin, Texas, offices, the firm said Wednesday.
An $11 million contract dispute left federal appellate judges “befuddled” Wednesday—confused by the facts of the case and a lower-court decision that dismissed it for the lawyers’ failure to prepare.
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