Fishing Fee Case May Lead Supreme Court to Limit US Agency Powers January 18, 2024 By Greg Stohr and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The US Supreme Court questioned a longstanding legal doctrine that gives federal agencies wide berth to interpret unclear laws as...
Biden to Restore Legal Foundation for Limits on Mercury Pollution, Discarded by Trump September 27, 2021 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy President Joe Biden plans in coming days to shore up one of the most consequential environmental regulations in history by...
Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Is Terminated After Years of Climate Activism June 11, 2021 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy TC Energy Corp. has ended its 16-year quest to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a controversial cross-border project that...
Ransomware Attack on Colonial Again Shows U.S. Ignores Warning After Warning May 11, 2021 By Brody Ford and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The ransomware attack that shut down the nation’s biggest fuel pipeline prompted an all-too familiar question in the corridors of...
AXIS Capital Decides to Stop Insuring Arctic Oil and Gas Projects January 15, 2021 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. said it won’t insure oil and gas projects in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, becoming the...
Trump Regulatory Rollback Targets Safety Rules Prompted by Industrial Disasters November 25, 2019 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration’s move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer...
Industry Flexes Political Muscle in States to Criminalize Aggressive Pipeline Protests August 20, 2019 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy After protesters disrupted construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota by chaining themselves to construction equipment and pitching tents...
EPA Begins Rewrite of Rules on Costs, Benefits of Environmental Regulations May 23, 2019 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration is planning to write new rules for how it weighs the human costs and benefits of environmental...
Supreme Court May Overturn Tradition of Courts Deferring to Regulatory Agencies March 28, 2019 By Greg Stohr and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed doubts about a precedent that business groups and the Trump administration say gives...
Assessing Effects of Government Shutdown on Wildfires, Workforce, Research January 28, 2019 By Christopher Flavelle and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger...