Environmental, Energy & Resources

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Oct
7
2019
DOJ Policy Review of SEPs May Have Big Implications for Company Environmental Settlements ArentFox Schiff LLP
May
6
2019
DOJ Releases Updated Guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs Beveridge & Diamond PC
May
12
2022
DOJ Restores Supplemental Environmental Projects in a Slate of Environmental Justice Initiatives Van Ness Feldman LLP
May
9
2022
DOJ Returns to Using Supplemental Environmental Projects Including to Mitigate Harms to EJ Communities ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jan
6
2022
DOJ Signals Increased Enforcement of Environmental Crimes, Focused on Climate, Environmental Justice Beveridge & Diamond PC
Dec
16
2021
DOJ Targeting Employees for Criminal Environmental Prosecution: Tips for Minimizing Exposure ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
16
2020
DOJ’s Attack on ‘Supplemental Environmental Projects’ Extends to Citizen Plaintiffs Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
19
2018
DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Priorities and Expectations – Refocusing on the Rule of Law Bracewell LLP
May
12
2022
DOJ’s Environmental Justice Policies Strengthened CMBG3 Law
Jan
4
2018
DOJ’s False Claims Act FY 2017 Statistics Show Focus on Energy Bracewell LLP
Oct
3
2022
DOJ’s Updated Corporate Crime Policies: Practical Considerations in the Environmental Context Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
5
2017
DOL and IRS Issue Guidance for Employee Benefit Plans Impacted by Hurricane Harvey Proskauer Rose LLP
Dec
13
2022
DOL Issues Final Rule Amending Investment Duties Regulation – Provides New Guidance on Consideration of ESG Factors in Plan Investing Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jul
16
2020
DOL Issues Proposed Rule on ESG Investing for ERISA Plans: Part 1: History and State of Play K&L Gates
Jan
13
2012
DOL Notifies Workers of 17 Facilities Associated with Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act about Potential Eligibility under EEOICPA U.S. Department of Labor
Feb
17
2015
DOL to Focus on Energy, Construction and Hospitality Industries in 2015 Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
5
2022
DOL’s Final ESG Rules Reflect Warmer Attitude Toward ESG, But Maintain Bedrock Principle that Risk and Return Cannot Be Sacrificed Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
5
2023
DOL’S Final Rule Gives ERISA Fiduciaries Green Light to Consider ESG Factors When Selecting Investments Hunton Andrews Kurth
Feb
26
2021
Domestic and International Securities Regulators Focus on Sustainability Standards Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
17
2018
Dominican Republic’s Law No. 57-07 and it’s Incentives for the Development of Renewable Sources of Energy Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
11
2014
Dominion Resources Sending "Final" Requests for Permission to Survey Land for 550-Mile Pipeline Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
30
2014
Dominion's Atlantic Coast Pipeline: North Carolina Property Owners Are Being Contacted Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
16
2018
Don't Dump Stuff in the River K&L Gates
Oct
4
2011
Donor Warned Obama that Solyndra 'could haunt him' Center for Public Integrity
Oct
24
2013
Don’t Discount Computer-Related Inventions from Patentability Mintz
Apr
5
2016
Don’t Do It! EPA and Army Corps Urge Sixth Circuit Not to Grant Petitions for En Banc Review of Clean Water Rule Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Oct
15
2015
Don’t Flush: New Rule for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Proposed for US Healthcare Facilities Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Aug
11
2021
Don’t Forget: The Senate Can’t Pass a Reconciliation Bill Until the House Passes a Budget Resolution Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov
4
2013
Don’t Hazard a Guess: December 1 is the Deadline for OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) Employee Training McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
4
2019
Don’t Miss the Memo: Recent Cases Clarify When Agency Guidance Documents Can be Challenged ArentFox Schiff LLP
Oct
3
2014
Don’t Throw It Away: A Company May Not Have Rights to Confidential Information It Puts in the Garbage, Greenpeace, Inc. v. The Dow Chemical Co. McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
5
2016
Don’t Wait Until Cows Come Home: Changes to Wisconsin's Agricultural Loan Guarantee Programs: Housing and Economic Development Authority Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Dec
6
2013
Dormant Commerce Clause Update – 4th Circuit Panel Talks Trash Faegre Drinker
Aug
8
2018
DOT and EPA Release Proposal to Roll Back Obama-era Emissions Standards for Automobiles Beveridge & Diamond PC
Aug
12
2014
DOT Harmonizes Lithium Battery Regulations with International Standards for Air and Ground Transport in Long-Awaited Final Rule Beveridge & Diamond PC
 

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