Environmental Law

On August 21, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held its second virtual public workshop to provide information regarding...

In August 2025, a federal judge in California refused to halt the implementation of California's climate disclosure laws, which impose several reporting deadlines...

Antitrust authorities in the U.S. and abroad are intensifying their scrutiny of collaborative activities surrounding environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives...

On September 4, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published the Trump Administration's Spring 2025 Unified Agenda.

In a September 2, 2025, letter to an Arizona air permitting authority, USEPA signaled that it intends to amend its New Source Review (NSR) regulations...

In its September 5, 2025, opinion in SSM Litigation Group v. EPA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned EPA's 2023 removal of the Title V affirmative defense for emergencies.

Over the last four months, carbon prices have tumbled nearly 70 percent amid fears that oversupply and lagging economic growth in Europe will drive down demand.

The European Commission’s recent proposals to revise and recast the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID, and the Market Abuse Directive, or MAD, include, for the first time, regulating carbon emissions allowances as financial instruments.

On Thursday, May 26, 2011, the Secretary of the Interior announced a joint effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS") and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") (collectively, "the Agencies") to identify and implement administrative reforms to the regulatory process used to implement the Endangered Species Act ("ESA").

On 13 August 2025, the Tennessee Underground Storage Tanks and Solid Waste Disposal Control Board voted to adopt new regulations for managing contaminated soil at redevelopment sites

On August 20, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency ("ECHA") published the updated REACH PFAS Restriction Proposal.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently released a Draft Checklist to assist companies in preparing climate-related financial risk reports under Senate Bill 261, codified at California Health and Safety Code (HSC) § 38533.