This update provides a basic primer on the origins and implications of the major questions doctrine, which has been recently invoked in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts stri...
On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA struck down the Clean Power Plan, concluding that the rule’s mandate that power companies shift from coal to natural gas and ...
Addressing climate change is one of the highest priorities of the Biden administration, and the pace of policy developments has been increasing and is expected to continue to increase ove...
The long-expected but controversial proposal would require disclosure of climate-related risks, greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial metrics. If adopted, the proposal wo...
Addressing climate change is one of the highest priorities of the Biden administration, and the pace of policy developments is expected to increase in 2022. This deck covers a wide range ...
On November 2, 2021, at COP26, President Joe Biden announced EPA’s release of a proposed rule under the Clean Air Act that for the first time regulates methane and volatile organic comp...
Yesterday, President Biden signed a Congressional Review Act resolution effectively reviving an Obama-era rule that imposed methane emissions standards on new, modified and reconstructed ...
The Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk is the latest significant step by the Biden Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. ec...
On April 22, 2021, the White House published the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan, as called for in President Biden’s January 2021 “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abro...
SEC Chair Hearing. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing to consider Gary Gensler’s candidacy for Chair of the Securitie...
