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How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 01.11.21

In their Commentary, “How to Limit COVID-19 Related Legal Claims” in the January 2021 issue of Engineering News-Record, Meagan Bachman and Josh Lindsay of C&M discuss advice for limiting and mitigating the disputes that are coming as a result of COVID-19-related disruptions to construction projects. Even as the first vaccines are distributed around the globe, sustained challenges and cost and time impacts to projects can be expected. But there also are opportunities to mitigate the deleterious effects of COVID-19 and reduce the possibility of large-scale disputes down the road.

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Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration Policies Restricting Wind and Solar Permitting

A coalition of regional clean energy trade associations — including RENEW Northeast, Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Southern Renewable Energy Association, and Interwest Energy Alliance — along with the Green Energy Consumers Alliance (GECA), filed suit in December 2025 against the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the Army Corps of Engineers. The complaint alleged that five agency actions, issued in response to a series of executive orders and presidential memoranda beginning on January 20, 2025, violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by arbitrarily halting or restricting federal permitting for wind and solar energy projects. Plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of these policies while the litigation proceeds. See Renew Northeast, et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of Interior, et al., No. 25-cv-13961-DJC,  (D. Mass. Apr. 21, 2026) ECF Dkt. 89....