Your Guide to Emerging Issues in Environmental Regulation and Litigation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently held that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) likely improperly froze roughly $20 billion in clean energy grants and thus, repealed an injunction that kept the funds in place while the validity of the grants is contested in court. By way of background, in 2024, the …
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on June 8 halted – for the time being, at least – the construction of a proposed 500,000 square-foot, 84-acre hyperscale data center in Faribault, Minn. According to the court, the city of Faribault did not have enough information about the potential environmental impacts of the proposed data center when …
On April 29, 2026, the California Sixth Appellate District unanimously affirmed a 2023 defense judgement issued by the trial court in the case of Jones v. Monsanto Co. in which the plaintiff, Bruce Jones, alleged that glyphosate exposure from decades long use of Roundup caused him to develop Non‑Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto knew or should …