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Highway 82 Fire - Affected Zip Codes: 31513, 31566, 31553, 31523, and 31525- The “Highway 82” fire began in Brantley County, Georgia on April 20, 2026. Early investigation has determined the cause of this fire was...more
Businesses in the agriculture, construction, and tourism industries may need to take extra safety precautions as required under federal and state laws to protect their employees in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, where...more
In 2025, the California legislature tasked the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), as administrator of the state’s Wildfire Fund, to prepare the Senate Bill 254 (2025) Study Report,...more
The NSW Government (Government) has proposed a new Climate Change and Natural Hazards State Environmental Planning Policy (CC&NH SEPP) to supplant the current State Environmental Planning Policy (Resilience and Hazards) 2021...more
This newsletter provides updates and legal observations on recent regulatory and litigation activity related to wildfires. This edition highlights the Forest Service’s ability to bypass environmental assessments for wildfire...more
We are closely tracking the newly released Senate Bill 254 (Becker, 2025) Study Report, prepared by the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) as Administrator of the Wildfire Fund. While the report outlines several pathways...more
The working group and catastrophe subgroup advanced multiple Risk Based Capital (RBC) initiatives, including separating hurricane and earthquake PR100 experience, adding wildfire to the RBC Catastrophe Risk Charge (Rcat) with...more
Following the wildfires of recent years, many states west of the Mississippi River have considered (and multiple states have now adopted) legislation to limit the liability of utilities for bodily injury and property damage...more
Oil has begun flowing through Sable Offshore’s pipeline off the coast of Santa Barbara for the first time in more than a decade at the direction of the federal government, despite strong objections from California officials....more
On January 7, 2025, a series of fires began that ripped through Southern California, leaving significant destruction in their wake. The Eaton Fire in Altadena, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, and other fires in the...more
The Palisades and Eaton wildfires reinforced that wildfire losses do not behave like traditional property claims. Rather than isolated damage events, they function as community-wide construction, environmental remediation,...more
For much of the American West, this winter has been historically warm and dry. Due to the resulting snow drought, many experts are predicting an intense wildfire season in Colorado and across the West more broadly. Colorado...more
The January 2025 Southern California wildfires destroyed more than 18,000 structures, burned nearly 50,000 acres, and caused the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. One year later, thousands of residents of Altadena and...more
On February 27, 2026, U.S. EPA issued a proposed rule that, if finalized, would position the Cleveland, Ohio Nonattainment Area for redesignation to attainment of the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)....more
On February 9, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis executed Executive Order 26-33, declaring a major state of emergency across all 67 counties in Florida. The Order responds to a powerful wintertime cold front that moved across...more
Nevada’s Senate Bill (SB) 260, which took effect January 1, 2026, mandates comprehensive requirements for employers to protect outdoor workers from wildfire smoke hazards. ...more
The California Public Utilities Commission (Commission) recently issued its Senate Bill 254 Information and Recommendations (Report) in response to Executive Order N-34-25 and the recent Senate Bill 254 (Becker, 2025) (SB...more
President Trump has signed an executive order seeking to move certain permitting authority from California and Los Angeles to the federal government, saying California and local agencies are moving too slowly on helping...more
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to “cut through bureaucratic red tape” and speed up reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes destroyed by the January 2025 Los Angeles area wildfires....more
Climate risk data has quietly moved from the background of real estate underwriting into the center of many residential transactions. What was once the domain of insurers, lenders, and regulators is now directly influencing...more
Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that the state will allocate $107.3 million toward 673 new affordable rental homes that will prioritize Los Angeles County residents displaced by last year’s wildfires....more
One year after devastating wildfires disrupted large swaths of Southern California, the state’s business community is firmly in recovery mode. Employers are reopening facilities, rebuilding worksites, expanding operations,...more
Have you ever driven down the road and seen a mountain of smoke rising from a nearby field? Unless you were in the middle of a raging forest fire, what you likely saw was a prescribed burn. A landowner intentionally setting...more
Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month....more
Each year, California enacts a number of new laws impacting municipalities throughout the state. New legislation for 2026 includes noteworthy updates to the Brown Act, financial training requirements for public officials,...more