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Navigating Change: Federal Updates on Energy, Transportation & Water Policies
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On Demand, On Purpose: Fashion Manufacturing That Doesn’t Cost the Earth
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The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors gave a thumbs up to revised draft rules for battery energy storage facilities at its January 13 meeting amid resident dissent....more
California water right holders have until January 31, 2026 to electronically file their annual water use and diversion reports to the State Water Resources Control Board’s new California Water Accounting, Tracking, and...more
Pursuing a record high civil penalty from a pipeline operator involved in a major oil spill, the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) sent a powerful New Year’s message...more
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On January 19, 2026, Mexico published the Decree enacting the General Law on Circular Economy (“LGEC”) and amending the General Law of Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection (“LGEEPA”) and the General Law for the...more
In an action widely anticipated by the regulated community, on January 6, 2026, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published in the Federal Register a rule (Final Rule) adopting, without changes, the interim final...more
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posted a Hearing Memorandum on January 20, 2026, for the January 22, 2026, hearing entitled “Chemicals in Commerce: Legislative Proposal to Modernize America’s Chemical Safety Law,...more
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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s (NJDEP) groundbreaking Environmental Justice Rules (EJ Rules), codified at N.J.A.C. 7:1C, went into effect on April 17, 2023, following the passage of New Jersey’s...more
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The European Commission’s (Commission) 2025 communication “A Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy” (the Framework) positions bioeconomy as a core pillar of EU competitiveness and industrial...more
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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Vemoci, LLC (“Vemoci”) entered into a January 8th Agreed Consent Order (“ACO”) addressing issues associated with a waste tire pile. See Order No. 7533 25....more
Echoing recent rulings from the District Court for the District of Columbia, on January 16, 2026, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Dominion Energy’s request for a preliminary injunction, lifting...more
Welcome to the Shipping and Energy Year in Review 2025 from the London office of Haynes Boone. As editor of our quarterly newsletter, I am delighted to bring together, in one place, the alerts, articles, publications and...more
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According to the Unified Regulatory Agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) plans to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) to update effluent...more
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