On March 23, 2026, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) held a public workshop to preview and take feedback on its upcoming rulemaking to develop further regulations implementing the California Climate Corporate Data...more
4/10/2026
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On April 1, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) finalized its “Set 2” rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) program (the “Set 2 Rule”)....more
4/7/2026
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On March 19, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule to grant Colorado the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection...more
3/20/2026
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Underground Injection Wells
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) is “accelerating” its efforts to revive deep-sea mining, regulated in the United States under the once-dormant Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (“DSHMRA”). We...more
2/9/2026
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Certain areas of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction are rich in deposits of polymetallic nodules, which contain concentrations of critical minerals important for industrial development such as nickel, copper,...more
2/2/2026
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
On January 21, 2026, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) published a final rule consolidating the process for U.S. companies to obtain exploration licenses and permits for commercial recovery of...more
1/28/2026
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Trump Administration
On January 15, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule to revise its regulations governing the water quality certifications that states may issue under Section 401 of the Clean Water...more
1/23/2026
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Waters of the United States
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the penultimate step to granting Texas the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control (UIC)...more
11/14/2025
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Fracking ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
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Rulemaking Process ,
Safe Drinking Water Act ,
State and Local Government ,
Tax Credits ,
Texas ,
Trump Administration ,
Underground Injection Wells
On October 15, 2025, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry issued an Executive Order (“Order”) halting the review of all new Class VI Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) well permits in the state and directed the state’s...more
10/20/2025
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Louisiana ,
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Underground Injection Wells
On July 3, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Army Corps”), and the Departments of Energy (“DOE”), Interior (“DOI”), Transportation (“DOT”),...more
7/14/2025
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USDA
The federal government is continuing to implement President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Energy mandate to promote domestic energy and infrastructure projects. On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...more
6/24/2025
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US Army Corps of Engineers
On June 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published its proposed “Set 2” rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) program (the “Set 2 Rule”). The Set 2 Rule proposes renewable volume obligations...more
6/19/2025
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Renewable Energy ,
Renewable Fuel Standard ,
Secretary of Agriculture ,
Trump Administration
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the penultimate step to granting Texas the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control (UIC)...more
6/16/2025
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Oil & Gas ,
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Regulatory Authority ,
Rulemaking Process ,
State and Local Government ,
Texas
On May 1, 2025, the federal government brought separate suits against both New York and Vermont alleging that these state’s “climate Superfund” statutes are unconstitutional on multiple grounds. In two nearly identical...more
If past is prologue, while the second Trump administration is expected to take a number of actions that could lead to increased volatility with respect to renewable identification number (“RIN”) prices just as the first did,...more
On December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act (“CCSA” or the “Act”) into law. The law requires certain fossil fuel producers and refiners with sufficient connections to New York...more
Despite the Biden administration’s public support for carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”), we saw neither faster CCS permit approvals from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) nor a significant push towards...more
On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) released a pre-publication version of an interim final rule (the “Interim Rule”) to rescind all of CEQ’s previous and current regulations implementing the...more
2/24/2025
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In his first two days in office, newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump signed a flurry of Executive Orders, including several aimed at supporting the traditional energy industry. The Unleashing American Energy Executive...more
2/17/2025
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NEPA ,
Popular ,
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On December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act (“CCSA” or the “Act”) into law. The law requires certain fossil fuel producers and refiners with sufficient connections to New York...more
1/20/2025
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Fossil Fuel ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
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New York ,
Oil & Gas ,
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Superfund
In 2020, President-elect Donald Trump promised to ensure that “America’s most critical infrastructure projects” would not be “tied up and bogged down by an outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process.” Much of...more
12/19/2024
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
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NEPA ,
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Rescission ,
Trump Administration
On December 16, 2024, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) released a notice soliciting comments on a number of specific questions to inform its implementation of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“CCDAA”...more
In an Enforcement Notice released on December 5, 2024, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) announced that it will not take enforcement action against companies subject to California’s Climate Corporate Data...more