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Trump Administration Issues Affordable Clean Energy Rule

On June 19, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule repealing the Obama-era “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) and replacing it with the “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) Rule. While both rules regulate...more

Court Overturns Trump Administration Efforts to Revoke Withdrawal Status for Outer Continental Shelf Lands

On March 29, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Alaska issued its ruling in a case challenging a presidential executive order which would have reversed withdrawals of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)...more

Environmental Deconfliction 2019: The National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019

As in prior years, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 contains a variety of provision setting U.S. Department of Defense priorities for energy, environmental, and natural resource issues. These...more

Landmark Public Lands Legislation Passes With Broad Bipartisan Support

On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to enact landmark legislation that promotes conservation, recreation, historical preservation and cultural resources across the country. The Natural...more

Investment Disputes Arising From Regulatory Changes in Clean Energy

This is the fifth issue of WilmerHale’s 10-in-10 Hot Topics in Energy Series. Over the course of 10 weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues affecting the US energy sector. Attorneys from across...more

EPA’s PFAS Action Plan Presents Opportunities for Advocacy

On February 14, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an Action Plan for addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (collectively, PFAS), a group of chemical compounds that has been linked to negative...more

Infrastructure Risks and Opportunities

This is the third issue of WilmerHale’s 10-in-10 Hot Topics in Energy Series. Over the next 10 weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues affecting the US energy sector. ...more

Climate Change Revisions Lead to an Uncertain Regulatory Environment

This is the second issue of WilmerHale’s 10-in-10 Hot Topics in Energy Series. Over the next 10 weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues affecting the US energy sector. Attorneys from across...more

Solicitor General Asks Supreme Court to Review the Decisions Adopting the Groundwater as Conduit Theory

In consideration of a request for a writ of certiorari in the cases County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, No. 18-260 and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners v. Upstate Forever, No. 18-268, the US Supreme Court invited the views...more

Key Takeaways From Women in Energy and Infrastructure Powering the Future

On November 29, WilmerHale held its second annual Women in Energy and Infrastructure - Powering the Future conference in Washington DC. The event and pre-conference dinner provided a forum for women thought leaders to discuss...more

U.S., Mexico, Canada Agree to Update NAFTA

After more than a year of sometimes contentious negotiations, the United States, Mexico, and Canada (the “Parties”) reached an agreement late Sunday night to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”)—renaming...more

Sixth Circuit Holds Clean Water Act Does Not Require Permits for Discharges to Groundwater

On September 24, 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not require a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the discharges of pollutants to...more

Key Energy Environment and Natural Resources Provisions of the 2019 Defense Bill

The President is scheduled to sign the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA) on Monday, August 13 at a ceremony at Fort Drum, New York. Named for Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), the bill authorizes...more

Environmental Deconfliction: The National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2018 and Its Implications for Energy,...

The National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) may be the most important piece of energy and environmental legislation most people have never heard of. It authorizes the appropriation of federal funds to support the U.S....more

Trump Administration Proposes Major Revisions to ESA Regulations

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (together, the “Services”) this week published proposed revisions to key portions of the Endangered Species Act’s (the “Act”)...more

NEPA Regulatory Updates Council on Environmental Quality Seeks Comment as It Considers Revisions to NEPA Regulations

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) seeking public comment on a vast range of potential revisions to CEQ’s regulations implementing the National...more

Congress’ Overlooked Environmental Legislation

On May 24, 2018, the House passed — and now the Senate is considering — the most important piece of energy and environmental legislation it will consider all year. It isn’t a revision to the Endangered Species Act or the...more

Infrastructure Series: NAFTA Renegotiation: Energy Infrastructure and Investor-State Disputes

Negotiations to reshape the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among the United States, Canada and Mexico have recently intensified as various factors—upcoming elections in Mexico in July and in the United States in...more

Infrastructure Series: Cost-Sharing with State and Local Governments

This is the fifth issue of WilmerHale's 10-in-10 Infrastructure Series. In this series, our attorneys share insights on current and emerging issues affecting infrastructure project developers in the United States....more

Regulatory Challenges Posed by Emerging Contaminants

Awareness of the presence of contaminants of emerging concern (a.k.a. emerging contaminants) in public and private water supplies around the country has become a considerable focus of public officials and the general public....more

Ninth Circuit Holds Indirect Discharge of Pollutants Requires Clean Water Act Permit

Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not require that pollutants be discharged directly from a point source into navigable waters for liability to attach. In...more

Natural Resource Damages for the Entrepreneurial Practitioner: Innovations in NRD Assessment and Restoration

The natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) process has evolved since its inception in the late 1970s. The innovations keep coming. In 2016, a third-party “credit banking” mechanism was used for the first time to settle...more

SCOTUS: WOTUS Rule Suits Belong in District Courts

On January 22, 2018, the US Supreme Court unanimously held that challenges to the Obama-era Clean Water Rule, commonly referred to as the WOTUS Rule (for “waters of the United States”), must be filed in federal district...more

Environmental Protection Agency Will Not Pursue Financial Assurance Rule for Hardrock Mining

On December 1, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will not promulgate a final rule requiring hardrock mining facilities (i.e., facilities for the extraction, beneficiation, and processing of metals...more

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