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The Council on Environmental Quality’s draft guidance for National Environmental Policy Act climate change analysis: key points

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2010

On February 18, 2010, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released draft guidance on when and how federal agencies should consider the effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA

Ninth Circuit’s "federal defendant" intervention rule in NEPA cases finally meets its end: Wilderness Society v. United States Forest Service

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 22 2011

In a significant decision issued in mid-January 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (en banc) abandoned its categorical rule that a party may not intervene of right in the merits of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) case

QFC funds update: the QFCRA’s new regime for collective investment schemes

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • Qatar
  • -
  • January 27 2011

The new year has witnessed the introduction of significant revisions to the regulatory regime for collective investment schemes operating in or from the Qatar Financial Centre (the QFC

San Diego District Court allows the 117-mile Sunrise Powerlink project to proceed

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 7 2011

On June 30, 2011, District Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California issued a decision allowing San Diego Gas and Electronic Company (SDG&E) to proceed with its construction of the Sunrise Powerlink, a 117-mile electrical transmission line that will connect the San Diego area with the vast renewable energy resources of California’s Imperial Valley

Proposed reforms to Bureau of Indian Affairs surface leasing regulations could encourage wind and solar resource development on Indian land

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2012

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has proposed significant reforms to its current regulations for non-agricultural surface leases on Indian land

Bureau of Land Management issues proposed rule establishing disclosure and integrity requirements for hydraulic fracturing on federal and American Indian lands

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2012

On May 11, 2012, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Proposed Rule1 that would require the public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, set requirements for well-bore integrity and establish flowback water standards for for all hydraulic fracturing operations on federal public lands and American Indian lands held in trust by the United States (Tribal lands

Federal government proposes significant modifications to Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 4 2011

On October 27, 2011, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) made available the much anticipated targeted Supplement to the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States (Draft Supplement

Congress replaces Forest Service appeals with pre-decisional objection process

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2012

The 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Appropriations Act), signed by President Obama on December 23, 2011, replaced the appeal process for most Forest Service actions with a pre-decisional objection process

U.S. Army Corps reissues 48 existing and two new nationwide permits

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2012

On February 21, 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) reissued 48 of its 49 existing nationwide permits (NWP) and also announced two new NWPs applicable to land- and water-based renewable energy development projects

Compliance with the Clean Water Act: 2012 modifications and updates to US Army Corps nationwide permits

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2012

Recently, the US Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) reissued 48 of its 49 existing nationwide permits (NWP) and also announced two new NWPs applicable to land- and water-based renewable energy development projects