The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a significant ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), curtailing how the EPA can regulate wastewater discharges under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”).
On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a sweeping deregulatory initiative, claiming it to be the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
This Alert examines CEQ’s recent rollback of NEPA regulations, its implications for federal environmental reviews, and the legal challenges that may shape future agency procedures.
The CTA and its implementing regulations have created a number of new risks and responsibilities. We understand the difficulty in sorting through these new requirements, let alone complying with them. This Alert provides guidance for public companies.
When the United States Supreme Court junked the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine this past term in its Loper Bright decision, many in the legal community were wondering what the fallout would look like. Loper Bright liberated courts to freshly interpret statutes and eschew deference to agency interpretations, setting the stage for a flood of rulings invalidating regulations across the administrative state. A prime candidate for attack: the Department of Labor’s “Minimum Salary Rule.”
Since 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been focused on heat-related hazards and possible heat-related injuries and illnesses in indoor and outdoor workplaces. OSHA recently proposed workplace regulations designed to protect workers from heat-related illnesses and fatalities, specifically.
Five former Directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently called on current USPTO Director Kathi Vidal to withdraw proposed changes to terminal disclaimer rules 37 CFR 1.321(c) and (d) (89 FR 40439). What do they mean? Why is this significant?
This landmark settlement underscores NMED’s use of flyover and remote sensing technologies for enforcement of air regs in the Permian Basin, and serves as a reminder to operators to inventory facilities in anticipation of more aggressive Clean Air Act enforcement at federal and state levels.
