Dec 22, 2023 The Osage Nation of Killers of the Flower Moon Fame Had a Big Win in Federal Court This Week By Jeff Porter A Federal Judge in Oklahoma has ordered the ejectment of 84 wind turbines on 8400 acres of Osage County Oklahoma. The problem for the...
Dec 20, 2023 An early Christmas present from three Fifth Circuit Judges who concluded a Louisiana property is not subject to Federal Clean Water Act Jurisdiction By Jeff Porter Garry Lewis owns 2000 acres in Livingston Parish, Louisiana and he has been fighting with the Army Corps of Engineers over whether any of...
Dec 19, 2023 The monumental PFAS settlements with water suppliers aren't out of the woods but give the Judge, Class Counsel, and Defense Counsel an "A+" for effort By Jeff Porter Many of the nation's public water suppliers and certain manufacturers of PFAS used in fire fighting foam are one step closer to massive...
Dec 18, 2023 Oklahoma Encounters Practical Difficulties in Implementing anti-ESG Policies By Jacob H. Hupart Last year, the State of Oklahoma enacted a law that “requires the state to stop doing business with financial companies that ‘boycott’...
Dec 11, 2023 Oppenheimer isn't the only Los Alamos blockbuster this year. EPA has another one with its exercise of its Residual Designation Authority there! By Jeff Porter You may have thought the movie Oppenheimer would be the only blockbuster involving Los Alamos, New Mexico this year. But now EPA has...
Dec 08, 2023 Climate Disclosures Continuing to Increase Among Major Companies By Jacob H. Hupart According to a recent ESG report from the Conference Board, the number of major companies issuing climate change risk factor disclosures...
Dec 08, 2023 SEC Expected to Vote on Proposed Climate Disclosures by April 2024 By Jacob H. Hupart The Securities & Exchange Commission recently disclosed, in a filing with the Office of Management and Budget, that the vote by the SEC...
Dec 07, 2023 Can AI Provide the Magic Medicine for Corporate Cutting? By Jennifer B. Rubin Spotify announced this week, through a very public memo to its employees, its plan to layoff about 17% of its workforce. In so doing,...
Dec 06, 2023 Now a Federal Judge in Louisiana will determine the validity of EPA's interpretation of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act By Jeff Porter When EPA published its most recent rule specifying the role of States and Tribes in the Federal permitting of discharges into Waters of...
Nov 29, 2023 Kudos to the Healey-Driscoll Administration for a continued focus on our approaching climate change crisis, but we need to start acting to mitigate it By Jeff Porter The Healey-Driscoll Administration's announcement of its ResilientCoasts Initiative garnered a lot of attention, as it should have. If...
Nov 27, 2023 EPA's new Maui Functional Equivalence Guidance is guidance in name only as confusion continues to reign over the reach of the Clean Water Act By Jeff Porter Just before the Thanksgiving holiday EPA issued draft guidance regarding when a discharge of a “pollutant” to groundwater is the...
Nov 15, 2023 Target Strikes Back at Shareholder's (Reverse) Social Justice Suit By Jennifer B. Rubin We recently posted about the investor who sued Target Corporation for securities laws violations arising from Target's alleged failure to...
Nov 15, 2023 Half of the United States have now thrown everything but the kitchen sink at EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' WOTUS rule. What happens next? By Jeff Porter When EPA and the Corps of Engineers published their tenth attempt to determine the reach of the Federal Clean Water Act, I said the only...
Nov 14, 2023 Our pressing need for renewable energy is spurring all kinds of innovation, not all of it good, as The Boston Globe reports today. By Jeff Porter Our climate emergency has spurred all kinds of innovation around alternatives to the combustion of fossil fuels to generate energy. ...
Nov 13, 2023 Nature may abhor a vacuum but North Carolina has learned the same isn't true of Europeans with PFAS they don't want. By Jeff Porter Since EPA published its PFAS road map just a little more than two years ago, I've often commended EPA for its ambitious plan to regulate...
Nov 09, 2023 Engage the Workplace with a Military Mindset By Jennifer B. Rubin The WSJ piece about the benefit of hiring drill sergeants to double down on productivity and reduce whining makes some good points about...