The environmental regulatory and litigation landscape for data centers has shifted. In the past several weeks, states with ...

On September 23, 2026, a second federal district court struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act (the Act), this time in a lawsuit brought by the United States and […] ...

On September 28, 2026, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finalized its Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and light trucks sold in the ...

On September 15, 2026, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the EPA’s 2024 risk management rule for methylene chloride and the unreasonable-risk […] ...

On September 14, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took two related actions to substantially change the federal framework for regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil ...

A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy provides a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy and reliability of the U.S. electric grid and warns that without urgent reforms and investment, the ...

This week, U.S. Representatives Bob Latta and Debbie Dingell released the discussion draft of a new bill: the Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution (SELF DRIVE) Act ...

These proposed rulemakings are likely to be similar in concept to the other currently pending NHTSA rulemakings, as well as an earlier rulemaking finalized in 2022. Each such rulemaking updated ...

On Thursday, December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the second-in-the-nation Climate Change Superfund Act (the “Act”). The Act had first passed the New York legislature in ...