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Council on Environmental Quality CEQ published final rule reversing strategic changes made under Trump administration to CEQ regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA. The Final Rule will be effective May 20, 2022, outlined in CEQ Proposed Rule.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas recently held that unsolicited text messages that simply inform recipients of the availability of a free COVID-19 vaccine are...

Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”)....

After nearly 50 years with little change, the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) regulations are facing their second substantive revisions in less than 12 months. In September...

Changes to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Enforcement Regime Take Flight; Department of Energy Report Examines the U.S. Hydropower Permitting Process; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Vacates EPA’s Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule

On October 7, 2021, the Council on Environmental Quality published a notice of proposed rulemaking to reverse several key changes made under the Trump administration to CEQ’s National Environmental Policy Act NEPA implementing regulations. 

Carol J. Miller Share: The quest to fulfill energy demands places whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals at substantial risk. When seismic surveys are used to explore for oil and gas, shock waves and rapid changes in pressure can cause tissue destruction and deafen marine mammals, who are highly dependent on their key senses for survival. In the interest of conservation and prudent development of the natural resources, President Truman’s 1945 Proclamation asserted federal jurisdicti...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Over the past 20 years or so, if your marketing team has deployed or wanted to deploy text messaging to communicate with consumers, and you – as legal counsel – pushed back, you are probably familiar with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), its rigid opt-in requirements for commercial text messaging, and the thousands of cases and millions of dollars in fines and settlements paid out for TCPA violations. One signif...

On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Facebook v. Duguid, resolving a long-standing circuit split on the definition of an automatic telephone...

1209 views As a favor to the community Im posting President Bidens order to agencies to undertake a review of Trump era environmental regulations. Yesterday was also an important day for Mother Nature and the nation. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously tossed the Trump administrations replacement for Obamas Clean Power Plan (CPP) back to EPA. The Agency will now be coming out with some version of the CPP.  Look for my continuing comments on these and other ...