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Haynes Boone

The UK North Sea at a Tipping Point: Why the UK Government Must Act Now

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The North Sea stands at a defining moment as geopolitical shocks, deepening fiscal uncertainty and weakening investment conditions reshape the outlook for the UK’s offshore sector. The conflict in the Middle East has driven...more

Mayer Brown

ANP Issues Rules on Biomethane Targets and CGOB Issuance

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On March 4, 2026, the Brazilian National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (“ANP”) published Resolutions No. 995/2026 and No. 996/2026, which implements the National Program for Decarbonization of Natural Gas...more

Nossaman LLP

Liberty Northwest Ins. Corp. v. Atlantic Specialty Ins. Co., No. 24-7353 (9th Cir. Feb. 20, 2026) (Unpublished)

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The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court and held that insurer Atlantic Specialty (as successor to One Beacon) had a duty to defend an employee’s suit against his employer, a semiconductor manufacturer. In the underlying...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Massachusetts AGO Rejects Yet Another Municipal Solar and Battery Storage Moratorium

On March 11, 2026, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”) disapproved a proposed temporary zoning moratorium on large-scale solar installations and battery energy storage systems (“BESS”) in the Town of...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The Global Race on PFAS Regulation: What US Companies Need to Prepare For Now — A Conversation with Lindsay A. Holden, Ph.D. and...

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with my colleagues, Carla N. Hutton, Senior Regulatory Analyst for B&C, and Lindsay A. Holden, Ph.D., DABT, Senior Toxicologist/Regulatory Scientist for B&C and The Acta Group...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 3.13.26

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The U.S. Transportation Department sued the California Air Resources Board on Thursday in U.S. District Court in California, claiming the state’s zero-emission vehicle and tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions rules are illegal...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

California’s Textile EPR Law Approaches Its First Compliance Deadline

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CalRecycle has selected Landbell USA to serve as the Producer Responsibility Organization (“PRO”) for California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, also known as SB 707. SB 707 was enacted with the purpose of...more

Goldberg Segalla

New Jersey Takes Aim at “Forever Chemicals”

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Earlier this year, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed the Protecting Against Forever Chemicals Act, sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein and Bob Smith. The Act seeks to address intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ESG as the New Weapon in International Arbitration

Arbitrations raising environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns are no longer new to market participants or practitioners. Any doubt about the popularity of ESG claims and the fact that arbitration is well positioned...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

CARB Announces New Virtual Public Workshop on SB 253 Rollout

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The California Air Resources Board has announced that it will hold another virtual public workshop to support the development of SB 253. SB 253 is California’s corporate greenhouse gas emissions reporting requirement....more

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CalRecycle Withdraws SB 54 Draft Rules

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On January 9, 2026, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) withdrew its proposed implementing regulations for the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CARB Approves Proposed Climate Disclosure Regulations

The approved regulations define key terms, such as “reporting entity” and “covered entity.” The regulations also establish the program fee structures, explain fee enforcement and set initial reporting timelines. On February...more

Cozen O'Connor

Heavy Metal Headaches: AG Bonta Warns Baby Food Brands on Transparency

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California AG Rob Bonta issued an enforcement advisory reminding baby food manufacturers and retailers of their obligations under Assembly Bill 899, which requires monthly testing of final products for arsenic, cadmium, lead,...more

Bracewell LLP

2026 Outlook for Maritime Biofuels

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Maritime biofuels are “making waves” in 2026. Growing decarbonization efforts have the potential to create synergies between the maritime and biofuel sectors. Industry stakeholders should be aware of several international,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

"Good-Neighbor" Commitments for Data Centers

The market is seeing technology companies reframe certain of their infrastructure investments as community partnerships, with companies pledging through "good-neighbor" commitments to support communities where they locate...more

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Retrofitting the Urban Landscape for Water Quality: Arkansas Water Resources Center Water Webinar/April 16th

The Arkansas Water Resources Center (“AWRC”) is holding an April 16th water webinar titled: Retrofitting the Urban Landscape for Water Quality, Illinois River Watershed Partnership (“Webinar”)....more

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A Practical Guide to Aerosol Recycling at MRFs: Can Manufacturers Institute/Household & Commercial Products Association Issue...

The Can Manufacturers Institute and the Household & Commercial Products Association (collectively, “CMI”) published a document titled: Yes We Can! A Practical Guide to Aerosol Recycling at MRFs (“Guide”)....more

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Title V/Dual Fuel Combustion Turbines: Sierra Club Petition Objecting to Georgia Environmental Protection Division Issuance of...

Sierra Club and Adrien Webber (collectively, “Sierra Club”) filed a Petition for Hearing (“Petition”) in the Office of State Administrative Hearings appealing the issuance of a Title V Air Quality Permit amendment...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

ATSDR Updates Chemical Mixtures Interaction Profiles: Why They Matter for Risk Assessment and Regulation

The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently released two new Interaction Profiles for Toxic Chemical Mixtures, continuing a long-running federal effort to better understand the health effects of...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

EPA Repeals Endangerment Finding - Major Uncertainty for the Regulated Community

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On February 12, 2026, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding Final Rule (the “Endangerment Finding”), which determined that six key greenhouse...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Court of Appeal Confirms Director and Officer Liability for Environmental Offences Does Not Require Knowledge of the Offence

On February 26, 2026, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its unanimous decision in R. v. Mossman, confirming that corporate directors and officers can be held personally liable for environmental offences without...more

Verrill

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t – Avoiding Parent Corporation Liability for Environmental Violations at Subsidiary...

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In United States v. EES Coke Battery LLC, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found three parent corporations liable for a total of $120,000,000 in penalties and other damages for violations...more

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PFAS False Advertising Class Actions: A Growing Threat Across Industries

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—commonly known as PFAS—have become one of the most fertile grounds for class action litigation in the United States. What began as a focused wave of environmental contamination suits has...more

Goldberg Segalla

Shifting Standards in Land Use Oversight: Understanding New Jersey’s REAL Rules

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In August 2024, the NJDEP introduced the Resilient Environments and Landscapes (REAL) rule amendment package as part of the Protecting Against Climate Threats (NJPACT) initiative. These rules are meant to reform New Jersey’s...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Cross-Border Regulatory Divergence: Governance Risk, Strategic Friction and a New Lever for Shareholder Activism

For much of the past two decades, multinational companies operated under a working assumption that, despite local variation, global regulation was slowly moving toward convergence. Accounting standards aligned, privacy...more

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