United States: Environment

The second Trump administration has launched a sweeping deregulatory campaign at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), raising concerns among some legal experts...

On August 20, 2025, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality ("LDEQ" or "the Department") published a notice in the Louisiana Register announcing proposed...

In the most significant reforms to CEQA in recent years, two new laws—AB 130 and SB 131—exempt certain infill housing from CEQA, limit environmental review for housing projects...

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").

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), citing high compliance costs and limited regulatory value.

In March 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") adopted rules entitled The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors...

Today, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the legal challenge to the Biden Administration's climate disclosure regulation be "held in abeyance" until the "Securities and Exchange Commission reconsiders the challenged Final Rules by notice-and-comment rulemaking or renews its defense of the Final Rules."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), citing high compliance costs and limited regulatory value.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia recently confirmed that stormwater is considered a pollutant for purposes of the standard pollution exclusion contained in a Commercial General Liability...

On September 9, 2025, EPA announced new guidance on New Source Review (NSR) pre-construction permitting requirements that broadens the types of activities that can be undertaken prior to obtaining an air permit.