Environmental Law

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that parties must be admitted to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing proceeding as a prerequisite to challenging a final licensing order in court.

China and the European Union (EU) recently finalized very different rules for the classification and regulation of black mass, a material resulting from the initial step of processing...

Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention) have agreed to take up work on how transboundary movements of waste textiles...

Senate Draft of BBB Would Standardize and Reduce Value of 45Q Credit, Diminishing Incentives for Long-Term Carbon Storage...

Welcome to the June 2025 edition of Climate Law Matters. Foley Hoag continues to monitor the latest legal developments affecting renewable energy, carbon-free energy, and other climate-related issues.

The D.C. Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) on May 30, 2025, published a second proposed rulemaking (Proposed Rule) to amend the District's Stormwater Management and Soil Erosion and Sediment Rules.

This week the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) posted Parts One and Two of its response to pre-hearing and hearing comments.

Earlier this week, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) announced it will extend the upcoming reporting deadline under the state's PFAS-in-Products law.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining and Oklahoma v. EPA on June 18, 2025, resolving two circuit splits over where challenges to certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

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").