United States: Environment

As part of Climate Week NYC, Frankfurt Kurnit will be hosting a seminar, "It's Not Easy Being Green: Navigating the Evolving Rules on Making Environmental Marketing Claims.

On July 10, EPA announced the release of "New Online Resources Giving Americans Total Transparency on the Issues of Geoengineering and Contrails." In the news release, EPA said the resources are to "address public questions and concerns about…geoengineering and contrails."

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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").

Despite the Trump administration's elimination of federal environmental justice (EJ) programs, states are reaffirming their commitment to EJ and pushing forward new EJ programs and policies.

Last week, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB")--the agency responsible for implementing California's mandatory climate disclosures--issued additional guidance concerning these regulations.

Imagine you're an automaker. The federal government says your gas-powered vehicles are fine. But California steps in—with EPA approval—and tells you they're not.

As reported in our May 14, 2025, blog item, on May 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a petition filed under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...

President Trump took steps to dismantle California's vehicle emissions standards on June 12, 2025, by signing three Congressional Review Act ("CRA") resolutions revoking California's waiver under the Clean Air Act.

On March 12, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in a press release that EPA will formally reconsider the 2009 "Endangerment Finding" — a formal regulatory finding by EPA that US...