Appeals court judges asked industry, labor, and health organizations to provide evidence they have standing to challenge an EPA rule designed to reduce health risks from ongoing chemical manufacturing, brake, and other uses of chrysotile asbestos, a known carcinogen.
A coalition of 21 Republican attorneys general called on the US Supreme Court to overturn a decision they say lets activist groups stop projects before agencies can even review them.
The Interior Department is challenging a judge’s March decision vacating several Endangered Species Act regulations that conservationists said weaken protections for imperiled plants and animals.
The North Dakota oil and gas industry is poised to receive a sweeping statewide permit to kill or harass the threatened Dakota skipper butterfly for the next 30 years.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday grappled with whether changes made to a deepwater liquefied natural gas port in the Gulf of Mexico required another round of environmental review by the Transportation Department.
The Trump administration is seeking public comment on its plans to create a Board of Trade to manage economic ties with China, moving ahead with the formal process to create the new mechanism.
Canada made new and detailed proposals on trade to the US based on negotiating progress in recent weeks, said Canadian cabinet minister
The Trump administration sanctioned Iran’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and three other entities in a continued effort to pressure the Islamic Republic into a deal to wind down President
Former Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost and his business partners will have to pay 40% in penalties to the IRS because the land donated for conservation easement purposes was grossly inflated, the US Tax Court said in an opinion Tuesday.
The House on Tuesday passed legislation to let the Interior Department continue collecting permitting fees from oil and gas companies when they apply to drill on federal lands.
The House passed a measure Tuesday to commission a study on ways to enhance wildfire hazard mitigation activities that are conducted across land ownership boundaries.
A proposal to help geothermal developers navigate the federal permit process passed the House Tuesday by voice vote.
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a
A coalition of environmental groups asked a federal court Tuesday to pause its order that paved the way for the nation’s first antimony mine to be built in central Idaho, pending the groups’ appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Jamie Evans joined Perkins Coie as a partner in its corporate practice in Seattle, the firm announced Monday.
Raphael Rosenzweig joined Cozen O’Connor as a member in its corporate practice group in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
Litigants could seize on openings to ask a Georgia federal judge to take herself off certain political cases, after she was found to have improperly had an affair with a police officer in chambers and attended a political event.
Milbank LLP is raising salaries for its associates, a move quickly followed by McDermott Will & Schulte.
The Senate confirmed the first judicial nominee to receive an “not qualified” rating from the American Bar Association in President Donald Trump’s second term.
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