Matthew Clark

Jul 5, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Clark |Benjamin A. Mayer |Ankur K. Tohan

In May 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM or the Agency) issued a final rule updating its renewable energy and right-of-way (ROW) policies.1 BLM is one of the largest landholders in the United States, with significant landholdings west of the Mississippi River in particular, and the final rule signals the Agency is open for renewable development on those lands.

May 17, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Varu Chilakamarri |Matthew Clark |Alyssa A. Moir

IntroductionThe United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized four separate rules1 (Power Plant Rules) that set new standards for power plant emissions in the United States. Collectively, these Power Plant Rules are a latticework of regulation focused on four areas of potential contamination and seek to limit emissions from natural gas and coal energy generation and derivative sources.

Aug 15, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Clark |Matthew H. Leggett |Cliff L. Rothenstein

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a proposed rulemaking on 31 July 2023 to implement Congress’s updates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) recently enacted in the Fiscal Responsibility Act1 and build upon President Biden’s Executive Order 14096 on Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.

Jun 6, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Clark |Matthew H. Leggett |Cliff L. Rothenstein

The compromise reached in the Fiscal Responsibility Act increases the U.S. debt ceiling in exchange for discretionary spending limits and reform to several existing legislative schemes, including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Fiscal Responsibility Act defines, for the first time in the statute, the concept of “Major Federal Action,” a critical term of art as NEPA only applies to Major Federal Actions.