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Firm News 73 results

Firm News | 3 min read | 02.15.24

Chambers Ranks Crowell Practices and Lawyers in 2024 Global Guide

Chambers and Partners has ranked 10 Crowell & Moring practice groups and 14 individual lawyers in the Chambers Global 2024 guide.

Firm News | 3 min read | 01.18.24

Energy Regulatory Lawyer Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas Joins Crowell & Moring

Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Practice Group. She brings more than two decades of experience advising clean energy developers, traders, and technology companies on energy issues before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the U.S. Department of Energy, and state public utility commissions.

Firm News | 3 min read | 12.14.23

Former Amazon Senior Sustainability Counsel Juge Gregg Joins Crowell & Moring

Juge Gregg, most recently senior corporate counsel on the sustainability legal team for Amazon, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group.

Client Alerts 134 results

Client Alert | 3 min read | 04.30.24

Appliance Standards: Steep Increase in Department of Energy Enforcement Cases Puts Appliance Manufacturers and Importers at Financial Risk

The DOE in 2023 significantly increased its enforcement activity against manufactures and importers alleged to have violated EPCA’s energy and water conservation standards and related certification requirements, based on available public information. As we previously flagged, the substantial rise in enforcement activity comes as the Biden Administration increasingly focuses on EPCA as a means of achieving environmental policy objectives, including reducing carbon emissions. The Department has continued its enforcement efforts in 2024 and early data from this year sheds light on the Department’s enforcement priorities.
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 04.25.24

JUST RELEASED: EPA’s Bold New Strategic Civil-Criminal Enforcement Collaboration Policy

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) just issued its new Strategic Civil-Criminal Enforcement Policy, setting the stage for the new manner in which the agency manages its pollution investigations. David M. Uhlmann, the head of OECA, signed the Policy memorandum on April 17, 2024, in order to ensure that EPA’s civil and criminal enforcement offices collaborate efficiently and consistently in cases across the nation. The Policy states, “EPA must exercise enforcement discretion reasonably when deciding whether a particular matter warrants criminal, civil, or administrative enforcement. Criminal enforcement should be reserved for the most egregious violations.” 
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Client Alert | 7 min read | 03.11.24

New Federal and State PFAS Requirements Pose Unique Challenges to the Government Contracting Community

A wave of recent changes in federal and state law pertaining to PFAS chemicals is likely to present both immediate and long-term challenges to the government contracting community. At the federal level, contractors that import products, parts, packaging, equipment or other articles with components that contain PFAS must confront new and extensive regulatory reporting requirements relating to such imports going back to 2011, and they must do so by May 2025. At the state level, a growing list of states are enacting total bans on the sale and distribution of such products and components. On top of this flurry of environmental regulatory activity, the Biden Administration continues to direct federal agencies to develop procurement strategies that prioritize the purchase of PFAS-free articles as part the Administration’s broader effort to leverage the federal procurement function in pursuit of climate and sustainability policy objectives.
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Press Coverage 36 results

Press Coverage | 03.02.23

Anti-ESG Fervor Catching Fire With Republican Lawmakers

Compliance Week

Publications 28 results

Publication | 08.01.20

Trends in Business and Human Rights Law in the Group of Seven (G7)

Human Rights and Business Initiative, UC Berkeley

Events 2 results

Event | 02.27.24 - 03.01.24

ESG in Energy, Trade and Supply Chain: Cleaner, Greener and More Responsible

Join us in Houston to connect with hundreds of international attorneys from some of the most distinguished law firms, energy companies, and governmental institutions worldwide. Together, we will explore current issues in energy and cutting-edge strategies to address them.

Event | 10.11.22 - 10.12.22, 7:00 AM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT

Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Energy Forum - Managing Through a Crisis: Energy Transition and Upheaval

The 2022 Mid-Year Energy Forum is a day and a half of discussions focused on all aspects of energy law, policy and trends. Topics will include supply chain impacts, ESG, LNG, hydrogen, stranded assets, crisis management, and West Virginia vs. EPA.
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Webinars 2 results

Webinar | 04.10.24

ESG and Sustainability Roundtable ABA SEERies: Sustainability Claims and Greenwashing Risks

Join the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) for the new "ESG and Sustainability Roundtable SEERies," where hot topics related to environmental, social, governance, and sustainability developments in the U.S. and beyond will be discussed. Each session will cover a key topic or development in this space and provide attendees with the chance to hear and learn from practitioners and experts across different sectors, industries, and jurisdictions. These events will also include breakout sessions, featuring in-house-only breakouts that give attendees opportunities to discuss and collaborate with their counterparts in other organizations under the Chatham House Rule.

Webinar | 03.24.21, 5:55 AM CDT - 6:40 AM CDT

2nd Energy and Environmental Law Conference

Partner Amanda Berman will be presenting the session "Regulatory Roulette: The State of Play Under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Other Major Environmental Statutes" at 10:45 am on Wednesday, March 24th.
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Speaking Engagements 50 results

Blog Posts 1 result

Blog Post | 10.23.14

Army Office of Energy Initiatives Releases RFP for New Renewable Energy Project at Fort Hood

Crowell & Moring's Government Contracts Legal Forum