Business Better Podcast Episode: An Update on Environmental Justice Under the Biden Administration
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Natural Resource Damages & Environmental Justice
Drinking Water on Tap: Money, Morality, and More with Tracy Mehan from the American Water Works Association - Reflections on Water Podcast
Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge: Environmental Enforcement in the Current Regulatory Climate
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The Environmental Defense Fund and Arup have issued a report titled: Practical Pathways for Port Decarbonization and Environmental Justice Guidance for U.S. Ports and their Partners...more
Climate Corps Listening Sessions - The White House has announced a series of virtual listening sessions for the newly launched American Climate Corps to be held in January and February 2024. With a goal of recruiting...more
Environmental Justice: 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Look-Ahead - As a concept, Environmental Justice, or EJ, has been around for more than 40 years. Beginning as a slogan at protests in Warren County, NC in 1982, EJ...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), has announced an unprecedented funding opportunity entitled the “Environmental and Climate...more
National Climate Assessment + New Funding for Climate Resilience - The US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which provides authoritative information on the risks, impacts, and...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “Act”) breathed new life into the tax scheme for renewable energy projects, creating a new base tax credit with a series of adders that can significantly increase viability of projects...more
Addressing environmental justice (EJ) issues has been a primary concern for the Biden Administration. Recent developments — one in Chicago and one in Louisiana — show different ways local and state regulators have reacted to...more
As the federal government faces a potential first-ever default in June without an increase in the debt ceiling, House Republicans last month passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 in a narrow vote of 217-215 with four...more
On February 23, 2023, the Biden administration announced $550 million in funding for EPA’s new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) program. The EPA press release states, “The new program advances...more
Executive branch priorities are clearly set out in agency budget requests. While the amount budgeted generally changes when Congress has its say, the original request provides unique insight into how agencies perceive what...more
The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability (“Committee”) transmitted a February 27th letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Michael S. Regan. The...more
On Monday, February 13, 2023, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the IRS published Notice 2023-17 (the Notice), establishing the program for allocating environmental justice capacity limitations (the Allocation...more
A new set of environmental policies embraced by the Biden Administration ― environmental justice (EJ) ― may soon spur litigation in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) space....more
Environmental Justice (“EJ”) continued to prove a major focus of the Biden administration in 2022. With wide-ranging initiatives across several federal agencies, the administration worked to strengthen enforcement, release...more
This alert looks at developments in environmental law that were at the forefront in 2022; the trend is expected to continue into 2023 as the Biden administration continues to act on its regulatory initiatives in the energy...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) issued a Request For Applications (RFA) on January 10, 2023, for projects “supporting community-based nonprofit organizations (CBO’s) in their efforts to collaborate and...more
According to California’s projections, the miles of highways susceptible to coastal flooding in a 100-year storm event will triple from current levels to 370 miles by 2100, with over 3,750 miles exposed to temporary flooding....more
On December 15, the White House added a new Guidebook to the Inflation Reduction Act to its clean energy webpage. The Guidebook is a valuable resource to help businesses, organizations, and individuals secure access to the...more
What will happen in the environmental and energy space in 2023? The last year saw transformative changes in the environmental and energy space in the form of historic spending through the federal Inflation Reduction Act, a...more
In support of transitioning to clean energy and combating climate change, Congress enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) (Pub. L. 117-169) to extend, modify and enhance many existing tax incentives, create new tax...more
A new Executive Order by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper aims to accelerate the state’s shift to zero-emission trucks and buses. The Executive Order aims to increase the availability of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty...more
As described in our August 16, 2022 Client Alert, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provides approximately $60 billion in funding for clean energy and environmental projects, including to a variety of Environmental...more
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment report, released most recently in spring 2022, sounded the alarm on the current state of the Earth’s climate. Today, with just 1.1 degrees Celsius in warming,...more
Securing environmental permits is often big part of operating a business. How the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent focus on environmental justice (EJ) issues might affect that permitting remains something of...more