Environmental Law News and Insights

Two reports crossed my desk this week that, together, made me wonder if we're finally nearing the tipping point on climate change belief in the United States. First, Yale and George Mason released Climate Change in the American Mind. The report shows that almost 75% of Americans think global warming is...

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Reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon neutrality, green economy jobs and energy affordability are the main energy policy recommendations made to Connecticut's new governor, Ned Lamont, as he begins his term. Those and other recommendations were the work product of the Energy Policy Committee, which was one of 15...

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Fulfilling one of President Trump's campaign promises, on December 11, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the Corps) signed a proposed rule to limit the scope of the regulatory definition of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act (the...

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