United States: Energy and Natural Resources

The Trump administration has unveiled the first 10 mining projects designated for accelerated federal permitting under Executive Order 14157, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production...

Following President Trump's March 20, 2025, Executive Order ("EO") 14157, "Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production" (discussed in our blogpost here)...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled "Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241" on April 8, 2025...

Following President Trump's March 20, 2025, Executive Order ("EO") 14157, "Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production" (discussed in our blogpost here)...

The Trump administration has unveiled the first 10 mining projects designated for accelerated federal permitting under Executive Order 14157, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production...

Continuing the administration's strategy to enhance domestic mining and processing of minerals and to minimize the United States' reliance on imports, on March 20, 2025...

On April 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an update to its Sept. 2019 advisory, addressed to the global shipping and maritime sector, regarding sanctions evasion activities in connection with the shipment of Iranian-origin petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemical products.

On April 2, 2025, the Trump administration declared a new "Liberation Day"—a sweeping trade policy shift marked by aggressive new tariffs that reverberate far beyond traditional bilateral trade disputes.

This month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's (Treasury Department) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) kicked off a public-private partnership information exchange series aimed at thwarting...

As reported in our April 1, 2025, blog item, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (MBEP) was scheduled to consider the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's (MDEP) December 2024 proposed rule regarding products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during its April 7, 2025, meeting.

On April 8, 2025, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed the Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Protection Act (HB 212). Like Minnesota and Maine, New Mexico will begin phasing out certain consumer products containing intentionally added PFAS, defining PFAS as "a substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom."

On January 17, 2025, days before the end of President Biden's term, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released two new enforcement documents...