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Current Trends in Climate Change Litigation: A Snapshot of Risk and Insurance Considerations

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In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research Institute’s 2025 Report on...more

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IRS Signals Continued Enforcement With New Conservation Easement Settlement Offer

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The Internal Revenue Service has announced plans to roll out a new settlement initiative aimed at reducing the significant backlog of conservation easement cases currently pending before the U.S. Tax Court and the examination...more

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2026 Regulatory Outlook: Advanced Recycling

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The recycling industry, traditionally seen as stable, is in an era of innovation and growth. A class of advanced recycling technologies is emerging to address plastics that conventional recycling methods cannot process,...more

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Mexico strengthens its sustainable finance framework

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On January 7, 2026, Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (“SHCP”) announced the update to its Sovereign Sustainable Finance Reference Framework, replacing the framework originally published in 2020 and aligning it...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

We’d Been Waiting Forever: FDA Issues Congressionally Mandated Report on Use of PFAS in Cosmetics

Key Takeaways - FDA delivered its first assessment of PFAS in cosmetics. Issued on December 29, 2025, the statutory deadline under MoCRA, the report is the first federal assessment of PFAS in cosmetic products and establishes...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Changes to TCEQ Rules Affect Compliance History and Penalty Calculations

Today, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) adopted significant changes to existing rules that will affect how compliance history is calculated, updated, and applied....more

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NYSDEC Finalizes Important Amendments to Its Brownfield and Superfund Regulations

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On December 31, 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) finalized important amendments to the regulations that implement its remedial programs, including the Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP)...more

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P2N0 - Edition 40 - News and Views on the Drive Towards Net-Zero GHG Emissions

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Welcome to Edition 40 of P2N0 covering the drive to avoid, reduce and remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to progress to net-zero GHG emissions (NZE). This Edition 40 provides a summary of 2025....more

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AGs Settle Two Car Manufacturer Multistates at the End of 2025 in Multimillion Dollar Enforcement Actions

Three years have flown by since we last wrote about the letter state AGs sent to Hyundai and Kia over the companies’ lack of anti-theft technology....more

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EPA’s proposed rescission of its 2009 endangerment finding

On July 29, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rescinding its 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding (Endangerment Finding). Issued by EPA in response to the Supreme Court’s 2007 holding in...more

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Illinois Governor Signs Wide-Ranging Energy Legislation Addressing Battery Storage, Nuclear Power, Renewables, and More

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On January 8, 2026, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (“CRGA”). CRGA is the most wide-ranging energy legislation passed in Illinois since the 2021 Climate and...more

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Environmental Groups Challenge Interior Department’s New NEPA Procedures

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Environmental groups recently challenged the U.S. Department of the Interior’s new, flexible approach to implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Applicants seeking to use federal lands for natural resources...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Ontario’s Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025: Expediting Regulatory Approvals for Energy...

This bulletin was updated January 14, 2026. On June 3, 2025, the Ontario government introduced Bill 40, the Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025 (Act), to expedite regulatory...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPPA Will Hold February Webinar on “Shaping the ETS/CBAM Reforms: Strategic Insights for Energy-Intensive industries”

On February 10, 2026, EPPA, a Brussels-based regulatory and public affairs consultancy, will hold a webinar on “Shaping the ETS/CBAM Reforms: Strategic Insights for Energy-Intensive industries.” According to EPPA, as of 2026,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Trump Administration's EPA: Deregulation in 2026

Two recent actions by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) show the Trump administration’s commitment to the coal industry and to redefine the landscape of electricity generation over the next decade. ...more

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Oral Argument Scheduled in Hazardous Substance Designation Litigation

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Following the completion of briefing in the challenge to EPA’s rule designating PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), oral argument has...more

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No Entitlement to Attorneys’ Fees Where Successful Claims Were Nullified by Legislation and California Supreme Court Decision

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Petitioners were not “successful parties” entitled to attorneys’ fees under Code of Civil Procedure 1021.5 after the Legislature abrogated their legal victories by statute and the Supreme Court reversed the judgment. Make UC...more

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D.C. Circuit Declines to Reconsider its Prior Order Restoring an Emergency Affirmative Defense for Emissions Violations Under the...

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On January 2, 2026, the D.C. Circuit declined to rehear en banc its prior order restoring the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) Title V affirmative defense to liability for excess emissions caused by emergency events. A group of...more

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Defense Considerations for Emerging Talc Exposure Claims

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Industrial talc defendants have been navigating asbestos-related lawsuits for decades, yet recent cases show the scope of these claims continues to widen and the corresponding need for sophisticated defense strategies is...more

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White House Review Signals Final Stages of EPA’s Recission of Obama-era Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

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Last week, the White House began its interagency review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule to rescind its 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and related vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) standards....more

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Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Magnolia Railway Services Facility Enter into Agreed Order

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Southeastern Railway Services (“SRS”) entered into a January 5th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7646 26....more

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Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: Arkansas Farm Bureau Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule

The Arkansas Farm Bureau (“ARFB”) submitted January 5th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and United States Corps of Engineers (collectively, “Corps”) on the proposed rule to revise the definition...more

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FERC Terminates Au Train Hydroelectric Project License by Implied Surrender

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On December 29, 2025, FERC terminated the hydropower license for the 0.9-megawatt Au Train Hydroelectric Project (FERC Project No. 10856), located on the Au Train River in Alger County, Michigan (Termination Order). FERC...more

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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Releases Final Environmental Justice Policy

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a final environmental justice (EJ) policy on 3 January 2026....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

There's No Such Thing as "Cost" Analysis or "Benefit" Analysis; There's Only Cost-Benefit Analysis

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to stop assigning dollar values to the human health benefits resulting from the imposition of national ambient air quality standards....more

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