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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - May 2024

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January 2024 #2

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

COP28 - December 6, 2023 Recap

COP28 - December 6, 2023 Recap - Today’s COP28 theme – Multilevel Action, Urbanization and Built Environment/Transport – saw the hosting of a Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change and the release of the...more

COP28 - December 5, 2023 Recap

Akin is participating at COP28 and providing regular updates from the conference. COP28 - December 5, 2023 Recap - - A draft of the first Global Stocktake (GST), the document that assesses countries’ progress toward...more

Previewing COP28: Opportunities, Challenges and Anticipated Outcomes

The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has commenced this week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and will run through December 12, 2023. The UAE is...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - October 2023

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - September 2023 #3

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - August 2023

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - July 2023 #4

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - July 2023 #3

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - June 2023 #4

Good evening! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - June 2023 #3

Good evening! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - June 2023 #2

Good evening! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - June 2023

Good evening! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - May 2023

Good evening! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

Climate Policy Update - March 2023

President Biden issued his first veto to reject a Congressional Review Act measure to shoot down the Department of Labor’s environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) rule. Governors are also pushing back on the Biden...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - February 2023 #3

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its initial guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act. Further, the Treasury Department—in collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service and the...more

Executive Branch Climate and Sustainability Developments to Watch in 2023—a “Go To” List for Business Leaders

2022 marked a historic year for climate change action in the Executive Branch. The Biden-Harris administration continued to deploy a “whole-of-government” approach to combating climate change, securing over $300 billion in...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January #4

To further the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the U.S. by 2030, the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium issued its supply chain roadmap. Meanwhile, the...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January 2023 #3

In a collaborative effort to slash transportation-related emissions, the Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Environmental Protection Agency...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January 2023 #2

Continuing the Biden administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing climate change, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued its Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January 2023

Good evening! This is Akin Gump’s weekly policy newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from this past week and forthcoming climate-related...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - December 2022 #3

Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) permitting reform hit the end of the road, failing with a vote of 47-47—however, Senate Democrats and Republicans signaled interest in addressing permitting approval in the new Congress....more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - November 2022 #4

[co-author: Leila Fleming] The Biden administration announced that it will provide a $1.1 billion grant to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to prevent the closure of Diablo Canyon. Additionally, the Environmental Protection...more

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - November 2022 #3

[co-author: Kerry Mackenzie and Leila Fleming] The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) released a proposed rule that would establish greenhouse gas emissions reporting requirements that would impact...more

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