Hurricane Beryl Roars Toward Jamaica on Destructive Path
Hurricane Beryl churned toward Jamaica with violent winds, heavy rains and a life-threatening storm surge that could cause more than $1 billion in damage.
The Eighth Circuit must reconsider whether a South Dakota farmer’s land qualifies as a wetland after the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron doctrine last week.
Denka Performance Elastomer LLC will have now have two years to comply with the EPA’s new air toxics rules for carcinogenic emissions, despite an appellate panel denying the company’s legal bid to halt the rule’s original shorter deadline.
An Alaska gold mine set to begin operations is in the crosshairs of a legal complaint on the grounds that the federal government didn’t take the required hard look before permitting it.
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that following its recent rollback of the Chevron doctrine, a lower court must reconsider a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that required a utility to buy solar power.
More frequent heat waves, a shorter snowpack season, and nighttime temperatures rising faster than daytime are some of the consequences of climate change brought into focus in the EPA’s updated Climate Change Indicators report.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
Hurricane Beryl churned toward Jamaica with violent winds, heavy rains and a life-threatening storm surge that could cause more than $1 billion in damage.
The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated a 40-year-old precedent known as Chevron deference, a doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws. Reporters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions legal adviser in the first half of this year, as deals in energy and health care boosted volumes.
Carbon offsets developer C-Quest Capital LLC said it reported former Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Newcombe to US federal law enforcement for his role in allegedly issuing millions of environmentally worthless carbon credits.
Accelerating climate change is prompting a rethink of how investors and bankers finance companies developing critical green tech. The industries that should be thriving at this stage of the energy transition — batteries, green hydrogen, “clean” steel— are square pegs that don’t fit in the round hole of capital markets. As a result, many promising green-tech innovators aren’t getting enough money — and dying on the vine.
Law clerks and interns for federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez recently spent weeks poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Europe’s aggressive blueprint to bolster its nuclear fleet for the energy transition is jeopardized by a lack of key components: skilled workers.
A new study suggests some of the projects don’t need extra funds from carbon credits to keep reducing emissions.
<-rte-company state="{"_id":"00000190-77ec-d0b4-afdb-77ff91c80000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Constellation Energy Corp. is in discussions with Pennsylvania authorities to help fund a restart of a unit at the Three Mile Island power plant, which saw a partial meltdown almost half a century ago, Reuters reported this week.
The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated a 40-year-old precedent known as Chevron deference, a doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws. Reporters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions legal adviser in the first half of this year, as deals in energy and health care boosted volumes.
Law clerks and interns for federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez recently spent weeks poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law.
Lawyers for Jan. 6 Capitol rioters are gearing up for a fight to wipe out convictions and lower sentences, after the US Supreme Court narrowed a criminal obstruction law used in more than 200 cases.
Jason Gersting has joined Snell & Wilmer as a partner in its intellectual property practice group in Orange County, California, the firm said Tuesday.
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