On September 23, 2026, a second federal district court struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act (the Act), this time in a lawsuit brought by the United States and the U.S. Environmental ...

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Fifth Circuit has given employers an early example of how the new framework may […] ...

On September 15, 2026, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the EPA’s 2024 risk management rule for methylene chloride and the unreasonable-risk […] ...

This week, U.S. Representatives Bob Latta and Debbie Dingell released the discussion draft of a new bill: the Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution (SELF DRIVE) Act ...

These proposed rulemakings are likely to be similar in concept to the other currently pending NHTSA rulemakings, as well as an earlier rulemaking finalized in 2022. Each such rulemaking updated ...

The AV sections of the BUILD America 250 Act focus on commercial motor vehicles, which federal law defines as those with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 10,001 pounds ...

On March 16, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published two proposed rulemakings designed to ease the path for manufacturing autonomous vehicles and deploying them on public roads.

Under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Secretary of Transportation is required to set fuel economy standards for ...

On Thursday, December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the second-in-the-nation Climate Change Superfund Act (the “Act”). The Act had first passed the New York legislature in ...

A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy provides a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy and reliability of the U.S. electric grid and warns that without urgent reforms and investment, the ...