In the US Supreme Court’s first post-Chevron decision involving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Supreme Court found against EPA, invalidating ‘end result’ NPDES permit requirements....more
3/10/2025
/ Chevron Deference ,
City and County of San Francisco v Environmental Protection Agency ,
Clean Water Act ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Environmental Litigation ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation
2023 saw terms like “ESG,” “greenwashing,” and “circular economy” come into common use. We also saw a tsunami of other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related developments at the international, federal, and state...more
12/11/2023
/ Carbon Off-Set Credits ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Class Action ,
Climate Change ,
Cybersecurity ,
Delta Airlines ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Equal Protection ,
EU ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Green Guides ,
Greenwashing ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
Popular ,
Proposed Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Recycling ,
Risk Management ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) ,
Title VI
In a closely watched environmental Clean Water Act (CWA) case, the US Supreme Court adopted a far narrower construction of CWA’s definition of “waters of the United States,” functionally shifting significant authority over...more
The Ninth Circuit recently weighed in on whether localities’ natural-gas infrastructure bans are preempted by federal laws including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA).
Some background. Many regulators and...more
What will happen in the environmental and energy space in 2023? The last year saw transformative changes in the environmental and energy space in the form of historic spending through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a...more
12/15/2022
/ CERCLA ,
Clean Water Act ,
Climate Change ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
NGOs ,
PFAS ,
Popular ,
Sackett ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)