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Amazon and Pennsylvania Join the Leaders in Pursuing Creative, Renewable Solution to Data Center Energy Requirements

As the popularity and use of language learning models such as Chat-GPT and Co-Pilot and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) products rapidly expand and as data centers continue to search for building and electric capacity to...more

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American Biogas Council Data Shows Waste-to-Energy Potential

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On June 4, 2025, the American Biogas Council, a national trade association representing the U.S. biogas industry, released new data analyzing each state’s untapped potential to generate renewable energy by diverting organic...more

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Pore Some More: Current Legal Considerations of Pore Space Ownership in Texas

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Texas has been the leader in American energy independence for more than a century. Decades of industry innovation have provided Texas real property owners with new ways to extract value from minerals, water, and more...more

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California’s New Climate-Related Disclosure Laws: Requirements, Compliance Costs, and Deadlines for Impacted Businesses

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California is often the vanguard of climate-related policies and programs. From legislation requiring the state to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and procure electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources...more

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DEEP Finalizes Release-Based Cleanup Regulations: What Property Owners Need to Know

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Since the last half of 2020, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has been working with a statutorily created working group to develop Release-Based Cleanup regulations, as contemplated by...more

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EPA Proposes Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Standards for Power Plants

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On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") issued a proposed rule to repeal all greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired electric generating units ("EGUs") under § 111 of the...more

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Challenging the Industrial Exodus: Legal Lessons from Santa Ana’s Planning Reboot

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The City of Santa Ana (City) has recently undertaken an ambitious — and highly controversial — effort to reshape the landscape of its historically industrial-centric Transit Zoning Code (TZC) district. Through the adoption of...more

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Currents - Energy Law Insights, V 9, Issue 6, June 2025

Welcome to our sixth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! Amazon and Pennsylvania Join the...more

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Citizen Suit Enforcement Under the Industrial General Permit: How Businesses Can Avoid Substantial Costs Associated with Notice...

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Each year, many California businesses receive letters from private entities, typically environmental nongovernmental organizations (Citizen Groups), alleging that those businesses’ facilities are in violation of applicable...more

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City of Los Angeles Approves New Ordinances to Encourage Housing Development

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California’s housing crisis has necessitated innovative legislative solutions at the state and local level to increase the supply of affordable housing across the state. Cities are required by state law to plan for a...more

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Updated Rules for Mining Disclosure: What the Canadian Securities Administrators Proposed Changes Mean for Industry Participants

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On June 12, 2025, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) formally released a Request for Comment on proposed sweeping changes to National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, marking the...more

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DWR and Water Board Propose Key Updates to Desalination Policy Framework

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As climate variability and drought continue to challenge California’s water supply, the state is renewing its focus on seawater desalination as part of a diversified water portfolio. While only a handful of large-scale...more

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Every Drop Counts: Urban Water Retailers and the Future of California Water Conservation

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Beginning January 1, 2025, the “Making Conservation a California Way of Life” regulatory framework requires urban retail water suppliers — not individual households or businesses — to adopt a series of “urban water use...more

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Trump Administration Issues Executive Order to Reform Wildfire Policy

On June 12, 2025, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 14308, titled Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response, with the stated objective of strengthening the nation’s capacity to prevent and respond...more

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Pending State Housing Law: High-Density Transit-Oriented Development Projects

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Various state housing bills are currently making their way through the California State Legislature that are expected to benefit mixed-income multifamily housing developers. The following summaries reflect the status of the...more

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Legislature’s Report Captures California’s Permitting Reform Zeitgeist and Creates the Launchpad for More Than 20 New Housing...

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In the summer of 2024, the State Assembly Select Committee on Permitting Reform began convening public hearings, interviews, and forums to understand how to reform land use permitting to address California’s ongoing “housing...more

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Other Pending State Housing Laws

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Our firm is tracking a myriad of other pending state housing laws, most of which were proposed as part of the “Fast Track Housing” package. Those bills are briefly summarized below. The following summaries reflect the status...more

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Solid Waste Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Elaine...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Elaine, Arkansas entered into an April 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of...more

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Transportation/Hazardous Materials Regulations: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interpretive Letter...

The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a June 3rd interpretive letter the application of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) applicable to the display of the...more

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Long-Term Planning Among Regulated Natural Gas Utilities: National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Report...

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (“NARUC”) has issued a report titled: Long-Term Planning among Regulated Natural Gas Utilities: A Review of State Requirements (“Report”)....more

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Final Guidelines from the Competition Bureau on Environmental Claims in Canada

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On June 5, 2025, the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) published its final Guidelines for environmental claims under the Competition Act (the Act). The Guidelines were created to help businesses and the public understand the...more

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New Verra Methodology Aims to Create Carbon Credits Through Accelerated Retirement of Coal-Fired Power Plants

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The methodology outlines a three-step approach for obtaining credits: retirement of coal-fired power plants, generation of replacement renewable electricity, and assurance of a just transition....more

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Course Correction: U.S. Supreme Court Removed Roadblock for Railroad Construction Project, Requiring Substantial Deference to...

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A "Course Correction" of NEPA Review - In an 8-0 judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had vacated the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s (the “Board”)...more

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EPA Proposes 2026-2027 Renewable Fuel Standard Volume Mandates

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on June 13, 2025, issued a proposed rule, "Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2026 and 2027, Partial Waiver of 2025 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement, and...more

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Legal Considerations Concerning the End-of-Life Management of Solar, Wind, and Battery Technologies in the US

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Solar, wind, and battery technologies have, and will continue to be, front and center of the renewable energy and clean technology transition. Entities in the renewable energy and clean technology space should be closely...more

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