Revocation of Iowa Wind Turbine Permit Moots Appeal, Court Says
Iowa residents lost their Eighth Circuit appeal Friday that challenged a county permit issued for a proposed wind project because the permit was revoked, which made their lawsuit moot.
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.
Oil and gas industry groups challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s latest rule on mineral leasing, calling it “a sea change.”
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.
Tougher EPA rules governing carcinogenic air emissions from chemical manufacturing facilities drew a petition for review Thursday.
Corporations are increasingly turning to tax lawyers to help manage intercompany pricing transactions involving the buying and selling of carbon credits.
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.
Iowa residents lost their Eighth Circuit appeal Friday that challenged a county permit issued for a proposed wind project because the permit was revoked, which made their lawsuit moot.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission didn’t follow remand instructions from the D.C. Circuit when issuing reauthorizations for liquefied natural gas projects in Texas, the City of Port Isabel and Sierra Club claimed during oral arguments before the federal appeas court on Friday.
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Requests by West Virginia and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association to stay the implementation of EPA’s latest carbon emission rules were denied Friday.
An environmental group alleges that the US Forest Service failed to take a hard look at alternatives before approving nearly 3,000 acres of commercial logging in a forest located in New Hampshire and Western Maine.
The UK government is pushing back a decision on whether to adopt global sustainability reporting standards for publicly traded companies and incorporate them into its national policies on environmental, social, and governance disclosures.
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The worst windstorm in Houston in 40 years killed at least four people, left more than 800,000 customers without power and grounded hundreds of flights across Texas.
Tim Cornell has joined Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner in the firm’s antitrust group in Washington, the firm said Friday.
A proposal to strip New Jersey’s highest judge of the power to fill the appellate court benches would “delay justice and harm the public,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said in prepared remarks Friday.
An enigmatic concurring opinion by an unlikely group of justices could be a sign that at least some Supreme Court members aren’t ready to topple the so-called administrative state.
Georgetown Law’s Adam Levitin lauds the Supreme Court case affirming the CFPB’s legality, a result that keeps scores of rules and enforcement mechanisms in place protecting consumers and even the financial services industry.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from the cases before the court that involve the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Tim Spangler has joined McDermott Will & Emery as a partner in its transactions practice group in the firm’s Silicon Valley and Orange County, California offices, the firm said Friday.
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