United States: Environmental Law

Below is this week's congressional update by BakerHostetler's Federal Policy team. We'll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session.

On this episode of the Bracewell Environmental Law Monitor, Jeff Holmstead joins Daniel Pope and Taylor Stuart to discuss greenhouse gas regulations, the controversial endangerment finding and the future of environmental policy under the second Trump administration.

Under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), EPA actions that are "locally or regionally applicable" must be challenged in the appropriate regional circuit.

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 this episode of the Bracewell Environmental Law Monitor, Jeff Holmstead joins Daniel Pope and Taylor Stuart to discuss greenhouse gas regulations, the controversial endangerment finding and the future of environmental policy under the second Trump administration.

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order that sought to target actions undertaken by individual U.S. states to combat climate change...

Environmental and science advocacy groups 1 have sued EPA and other agencies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for removing without notice "vitally important webpages...

Under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), EPA actions that are "locally or regionally applicable" must be challenged in the appropriate regional circuit.

In Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining,the Supreme Court is weighing whether legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) denial of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) exemptions for small oil refineries must be filed exclusively in the D.C. Circuit under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Environmental and science advocacy groups 1 have sued EPA and other agencies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for removing without notice "vitally important webpages...