Air
Batteries Not Included: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Vehicles and Decarbonisation in the United KingdomThe Biden Earth Day Climate Announcement: Not Just Clean Air Act RegulationEPA’s Final Risk Management Program Reconsideration Rule More In-Step with OSHA’s Process Safety Management Standards
Environmental Justice
Cumulative risk by any other name: Seeking environmental justice in an era of statutory, regulatory, and scientific uncertaintyTwo Big Trends Around the Corner for Environmental LawThe Biden Administration’s Environmental Justice Policy Agenda: First Steps to Identify How Your Project Fits in the Landscape
Federal
Treasury Announces Initial Guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s Labor Requirements for Renewable Energy Tax Credits and IncentivesWest Virginia, et al. v EPA – What It Is and What It Means for Continued Coal-Based Electrical Generation in the U.S.U.S. Interior Department Initiates Actions to Protect Colorado River System, Reduce Deliveries
Hydrofracking
UK Government Ends Its Support for Fracking in England (At Least for Now)EPA Issues Final Hydraulic Fracturing Report, Concluding that The Practice “Can Impact Drinking Water Resources under Some Circumstances”; Follow-on Federal Regulation Highly UnlikelyIndependent Scientific Panel Faults the EPA’s Landmark Hydraulic Fracturing Study
International
EU to Make Changes to Its Sustainability Reporting Rules and Impose New Obligations on Non-European CompaniesInterior Department Determines ‘Tier 2 Shortage Conditions’ on Colorado River Requiring Additional Water Delivery Cuts, Other Actions in 2023Renewable Energy in Latin America Updates - August 2022
Massachusetts
DEP’s Municipal Harbor Plan Regulations InvalidGreenberg Traurig Secures Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Victory in Solar Facility Development DisputeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property Transfer
NEPA
New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Legislation: The Focus on Major Source Permit Applications Might Impact Property ValuesA Tale of Two Environmental Policies: President Trump Announces NEPA Reform, as Former Vice President Biden Vows to Roll Back Reforms If ElectedFederal Judge Prohibits Use of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Nationwide Permit 12 for Utility and Pipeline Projects
New Jersey
TRANSITION THOUGHTS: How Will President Biden’s Elevation of Environmental Justice Within the EPA Affect Your Permitted Facility or Redevelopment Project?Third Circuit Considers the Scope of “Matters Addressed” in CERCLA SettlementsNew Jersey’s Environmental Justice Legislation: The Focus on Major Source Permit Applications Might Impact Property Values
Politics
Interior Department Determines ‘Tier 2 Shortage Conditions’ on Colorado River Requiring Additional Water Delivery Cuts, Other Actions in 2023How the Inflation Reduction Act May Impact the Renewable Energy IndustryMaribel Nicholson-Choice Quoted in Law360 Article, '3 Key Enviro Priorities In The Infrastructure Bill'
Renewables
Treasury Announces Initial Guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s Labor Requirements for Renewable Energy Tax Credits and IncentivesGreenberg Traurig Represents Clēnera on Construction and Tax Equity Financing for the 105 MW DC Apex Solar ProjectCommerce Department Delays Auxin Preliminary Determination on Solar Trade Imports
Toxic Tort
Greenberg Traurig’s Libretta Stennes and Deepi K. Miller to Speak at ABA Toxic Torts and Environmental Law ConferenceThe Top 5 New Environmental Issues for Commercial Property Owners or ManagersNew York’s ‘Toxic Toys’ Law: Governor Signs Legislation Regulating Chemicals in Children’s Products, But Changes to the Law Are Already Coming
Transactional
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property TransferPresidential Executive Order on U.S. Bulk Power System Equipment from ‘Foreign Adversaries’Investors in Many Syndicated Conservation Easement Deals Must Notify the IRS