On July 25, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an opportunity for public input on the potential expansion of the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) programs’ certification to new product categories. EPA will hold a listening session webinar on August 29, 2023, and request stakeholder comment […]
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July 27, 2023 Alice F. Douglas, with contributions from Summer Associate Reilly Wright MGKF Litigation Blog On July 5, 2023, the United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved the largest offshore wind energy project to date—known as Ocean Wind 1—which will entail the construction […]
Jul 26, 2023
“Reactivation” Deactivated – Update from Hiser Joy
Posted by: Eric L. Hiser Readers of this blog are familiar with the struggles over the fate of the St. Croix refinery built and operated by HOVENSA until 2012… Click here to read more..
July 24, 2023 Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down National Marine Fisheries Service’s Claimed Duty to Give Species the “Benefit of the Doubt” in the Face of Factual Uncertainty; Calls into Question Deference to Agency Interpretation Under Endangered Species Act In an opinion with the potential to significantly impact future challenges […]
Posted on July 21, 2023 by: Dylan G. LaMorte On June, 23, 2023, in the decision In re First Reserve Management., L.P., No. 22-0227, 2023 WL 4140454 (Tex. June 23, 2023), the Texas Supreme Court analyzed when a corporate parent’s control over its subsidiary’s operations might give rise to the parent’s liability under a […]