United States: Environment

For the third year in a row, our attorneys have outlined key trends and issues shaping the water landscape in Nossaman's California Water Views – 2025 Outlook.

The Trump administration has identified growth in the nuclear energy industry as a critical component of the President's campaign to establish American energy dominance and meet the rapidly increasing need for power.

The Supreme Court of the United States' opinion, issued May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, reaffirms the Court's earlier...

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").

For the third year in a row, our attorneys have outlined key trends and issues shaping the water landscape in Nossaman's California Water Views – 2025 Outlook.

With initial reporting deadlines fast approaching under California's climate reporting laws, SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261 (the Climate-related Financial Risk Act), the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") yesterday offered proposed directional guidance and revised timing for the publication of crucial regulations during a lengthy Virtual Public Workshop.

On May 28, 2025, the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, sided with the defendant energy company in a landmark climate change litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2026 fundamentally reimagines the federal government's role in environmental policy and regulation.

On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, holding that EPA does not have the authority to issue "end-result" requirements in National Pollutant Discharge Emissions System ("NPDES") permits under the Clean Water Act ("CWA").

In a decision aiming to reiterate and clarify the fundamental role of judicial review in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) cases, the U.S. Supreme Court emphasized that courts must afford agencies substantial deference to agency expertise in reviewing NEPA decisions.