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 ...
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...
Yesterday, the SEC released a statement on climate change disclosures. The statement directs the SEC staff to review company disclosures against its 2010 climate change disclosure guidanc...
We’ve considered the options that a Biden administration may have to effect its environmental and climate change policies now that the Democrats will have control of Congress for the ne...
