Power Play: Navigating EPA's New Rulebook - Energy Law Insights
Podcast - Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA: The Intersection of Constitutional and Environmental Law
SCOTUS Clean Air Act Cases: What’s New?
Rewriting the Rules: The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision on Clean Water Act Permits
On-Demand Webinar | Regulatory Uncertainty and Linear Infrastructure Projects: Where Are We and What’s Ahead?
PFAS: Increasing Regulations and Managing Legal Liability
On-Demand Webinar | Linear Infrastructure Redux: Adapting Your Projects to Meet the New Regulatory Climate
The Current and Future Landscapes of EPA Criminal and Civil Enforcement
On-Demand Webinar | The New NEPA Regulations: A Practical Guide to What You Need to Know
One-on-One with David Fotouhi, Acting General Counsel at the EPA
Volatile Times in Vapor Intrusion Regulation: A Legal and Technical Update
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
Work to find and stop methane emissions is getting a $100-million boost, with an investment aimed at expanding satellite monitoring and helping countries adopt policies to rein in releases of the potent greenhouse gas....more
Exxon Mobil last Friday filed suit in federal court challenging two California laws that would require the oil company to report greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the use of its products globally. The 30-page complaint,...more
The California Court of Appeal has ruled that preliminary work can begin on the Delta Conveyance Project, a controversial proposal to build a 14-mile underground tunnel to transport water from Northern California southward....more
This newsletter provides updates and legal observations of recent regulatory and litigation activity related to wildfires. This edition highlights President Donald Trump’s executive orders that impact wildfire prevention and...more
The California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) on October 8 granted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) a six-month extension to complete its status review of the March 5, 2024 petition to list the...more
Manufacturers are facing a wave of complex and overlapping environmental regulations at both the state and federal levels. This session will examine two current issues that should be top of mind for manufacturers:...more
Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s monthly bulletin reporting on late-breaking legislative and policy developments in ESG. Our aim is to scan the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory horizon to help inform business decisions....more
The Sierra Club and other organizations filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (“Court”) a September 2nd Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief (“Complaint”) against the...more
The second part of our Wildfire Litigation Series delves into the complexities of assessing economic damages during the litigation phase. As the legal landscape evolves, precise methodologies and strategic partnerships become...more
In the aftermath of wildfires, rapid action is essential for both victims and their legal teams. Part One of our Wildfire Litigation Series explores the immediate steps forensic experts must take to assess economic damages...more
In Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court held that fuel producers have standing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for approving California regulations that would...more
We’ve been closely following the litigation brought by the U.S. and California Chambers of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Los Angeles County Business Federation, the Central Valley Business Federation, and...more
Illinois expands jurisdiction and regulation of PFAS, court dismisses suit challenging Minnesota ban on cookware with PFAS, California initiates process to regulate microplastics under state Safer Consumer Products Law, and...more
Part three of a three-part series - As previously reported in Part 1 of this series, on June 30, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 131 into law (SB 131), amending the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...more
California's ability to set its own vehicle emission standards under its Clean Air Act waiver of federal preemption is in jeopardy given three joint congressional resolutions signed into law by President Trump on June 12,...more
On August 1, 2025, a federal district court judge rejected the attempt by three major asset managers to dismiss an antitrust complaint filed by a coalition of 11 Republican state attorneys general (and subsequently receiving...more
Iowa AG Brenna Bird led a group of 26 Republican AGs in filing two amici curiae briefs urging the dismissal of pending challenges to Environmental Protection Agency waivers allowing California to enforce its own vehicle...more
In a decision building on a string of recent industry wins, a federal district court granted a permanent injunction, which extended an earlier issued preliminary injunction, prohibiting the filing of new lawsuits to enforce...more
Relief is not immediately in sight for companies subject to key California greenhouse gas emission laws. A federal court in California recently denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to pause compliance with SB-253,...more
A group of truck manufacturers filed a lawsuit on August 11 against California regulators contending that the state lacks the authority to enforce its heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, which are stricter than federal...more
California – as part of effort to reduce the environmental impact of maritime shipping, particularly within vulnerable port-side communities – has implemented one of the most ambitious port-emission control programs to date....more
Welcome to “CEQA News You Can Use,” a quarterly production of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP’s Natural Resources lawyers. This publication provides quick, useful bites of CEQA news, which we hope can be a resource for...more
On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), seeking to promote housing projects in a state that desperately needs them. Much of...more
Note: This is the sixth update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law....more
In the three months since our previous post about major California businesses being targeted with a Proposition 65 (“Prop. 65”) Notice of Violation (“NOV”) for allegedly exposing California customers to Bisphenol S (BPS) in...more