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Companies Face Increased Criminal Enforcement Risk From Aging Infrastructure-Related Disasters

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Utilities and energy companies can implement strategies to mitigate risks from more frequent environmental disasters and infrastructure failures. In the early morning of June 11, 2023, a tanker truck carrying gasoline up...more

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Disasters and Environmental Laws - Have We Learned Our Lesson?

I recently had the opportunity to speak at a State University of New York (SUNY) conference for a group of exceptional primary and high school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers. These teachers are part...more

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No Calm After the Storm

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Perhaps Floridians know best that the calm after the storm is really just proverbial. In truth, the environmental aftermath of Hurricane Ian may be the greater storm to overcome – one from which west Florida and the Gulf...more

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Politics Threaten Passage Of Wildfire Mitigation Bills

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Lawmakers from both parties, in both houses of Congress, have proposed bills intended to speed up forest-management projects that reduce wildfire fuels, like brush and small trees, which can cause large-scale fires of the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Key Issues at COP 27

From November 6 to November 18 of this year, climate leaders will convene in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27). COP 27...more

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Climate Change: Is The Answer “Blowin’ in the Wind"?

Hurricane Ian brought “fierce winds, unrelenting rains and catastrophic flooding to southwest Florida. As Ian approached, Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis acknowledged that, “We all need to work together regardless of party...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

HHS Turns Up the Heat on Climate Change with New Office

The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently established the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), reinforcing the Biden-Harris administration’s...more

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Sustainable Development and Land Use Update - September 2020 #4

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S.F.’s Embarcadero could be devastated by earthquakes and rising seas, study warns - SFGate – September 19 - The Embarcadero in San Francisco faces severe threats from both earthquakes that could undermine the city’s...more

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Climate Change for Insurers: When Politics Fail, Flood the Courts

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This article follows on from a series of previous articles seeking to address climate change litigation in the context of insurance and reinsurance. Three different, but important, decisions in December 2019 have once again...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 41, November 2019

Why Everything They Say About California Fires — Including That Climate Matters Most — is Wrong - "'We’ve looked at the history of climate and fire throughout the whole state, and through much of the state, particularly...more

Nossaman LLP

[Webinar] Handling the Heat: The Evolving Nature of Washington's Wildfires - October 8th, 11:00 am PT

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Please join Nossaman Environment & Land Use Partner Linda Larson of the Firm’s Seattle office and Nossaman Water Practice Group Associate Willis Hon for "Handling the Heat: The Evolving Nature of Washington's Wildfires," a...more

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A Survey of New Texas Environmental Laws

This is a brief survey of many of the environmental and regulatory laws passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor in the 86th Regular Session of the Legislature, which ended in May 2019....more

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Environmental Deconfliction 2019: The National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019

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As in prior years, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 contains a variety of provision setting U.S. Department of Defense priorities for energy, environmental, and natural resource issues. These...more

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Hurricanes and Flooding: Surely EPA Regulations are Suspended?!

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It seems to happen every year. A natural disaster disrupts fall football season, and interstates are full of evacuees gobbling up hotel rooms and squatting in the nearest safety zones. In those times, no one ever thinks of...more

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