A Ninth Circuit ruling strengthens Central Valley Project contract certainty for water districts while leaving businesses exposed to annual water supply risk.
Illinois is adding PFAS sampling to wastewater permits, creating new visibility into contamination moving through effluent, influent, and biosolids.
Corporate energy buyers using standard PPA templates across U.S. power markets may be carrying different grid risks under seemingly identical contract terms.
A Santa Monica jury awarded $47 million to the family of a countertop fabricator who died of silicosis, the third plaintiff verdict in four U.S. trials.
Sweden opened a consultation on national PFAS rules for clothing, cosmetics and cookware starting 2028, ahead of a broader EU restriction still under review.
EPA's draft TSCA reviews find both industrial solvents pose unreasonable risk to workers, with facility data due before an October 9 comment deadline.
A DOE court stipulation tied an October grant-cancellation tranche to state politics, adding new legal risk to federally supported hydrogen projects.
Lenders, investors, suppliers, and corporate buyers evaluating offshore wind exposure face separate permitting, revenue-support, and financing hurdles.
Finance leaders face new capital risk: the July 4 tax credit deadline passed while a court fight over the solar and wind safe harbor rules remains unresolved.
EPA's latest scorecard emphasizes permitting, cleanup, infrastructure, and regulatory actions over new climate initiatives, signaling shifted priorities.
Virginia preserved its data center equipment tax break while adding a new electricity consumption tax that raises ongoing costs for qualifying facilities.
Michigan's updated brownfield law adds project milestones, capital investment checks, and clawback provisions before developers receive state tax incentives.
More than 12,000 claimants have filed for payment through SCE's Eaton Fire settlement fund, even as Edison discloses 2,000 lawsuits and $1.3 billion in losses.
New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rules end automatic ESA protections for future threatened species, replacing them with species-specific conservation rules.
A final CSB investigation found BioLab's Conyers, Georgia warehouse held nearly double its permitted chemical load before a 2024 fire forced evacuations.
A federal judge ordered EPA to finalize its PM2.5 nonattainment designations by February 6, 2027, rejecting the agency's proposed 18-month timeline.
New Hampshire has signed a law directing its Department of Energy to assess transformer vulnerability to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances.
Maryland's Supreme Court vacated a $25,000 fee award in a records case that exposed secret Frederick County talks with Amazon over data center rezoning.
Missouri and Indiana now require utilities to secure replacement capacity before retiring power plants, as PJM and MISO warn of tightening reserve margins.
Manufacturers in South Korea, Brazil, and India are expanding transformer capacity as grid growth turns electrical equipment into a strategic industry.