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Welcome to the S&W Environmental, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Law Blog. This blog is a resource for the regulated community to stay current on new developments impacting the environmental, natural resources and energy sectors. It provides timely updates on a broad range of federal, state and local environmental topics — including proposed legislation and government rulemakings — that impact regulated industries throughout the southwest and the nation as a whole.
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- New Bureau of Land Management Guidance on Geologic Carbon Sequestration on Federal Public Lands Answers Some Questions, But Uncertainty Remains for Split-Estate Lands
- DOE Seeks Input on How to Spend $2.5 billion on Transmission Projects
- Office of Environmental Justice & Reviving Supplemental Environmental Projects
- Pushing the United Nations for Recognition of Access to a Clean Environment as a Human Right
- Basin States Agree to Reduced Colorado River Deliveries
New Bureau of Land Management Guidance on Geologic Carbon Sequestration on Federal Public Lands Answers Some Questions, But Uncertainty Remains for Split-Estate Lands
by John W. Andrews On June 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued formal guidance describing BLM’s policy for authorizing use of federal public lands for site characterization, injection, and geologic sequestration of … Continue reading
Tagged BLM, carbon capture and storage
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DOE Seeks Input on How to Spend $2.5 billion on Transmission Projects
By Matt Derstine On May 6, 2022, the Department of Energy issued a notice of DOE’s intent to implement the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) and to request input regarding the solicitation and qualification process for TFP funding. The TFP is … Continue reading
Tagged Department of Energy, TFP, Transmission Facilitation Program
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Office of Environmental Justice & Reviving Supplemental Environmental Projects
by Luke Narducci and Amanda Reeve On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“USDOJ”) announced the launch of a new comprehensive environmental justice (“EJ”) strategy. The three-prong strategy, as laid out by the U.S. Attorney General in an … Continue reading
Tagged DOJ, environmental justice, SEP, Supplemental Environmental Project
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Pushing the United Nations for Recognition of Access to a Clean Environment as a Human Right
by John Habib The United Nations Human Rights Council passed Resolution 48/13 in October 2021. The Resolution recognizes as a human right a person’s access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Non-governmental organizations are now pushing the United Nations … Continue reading
Tagged Human Rights Council, United Nations
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Basin States Agree to Reduced Colorado River Deliveries
by Fred Breedlove Less than two weeks ago, we wrote that the Department of Interior proposed reducing Colorado River deliveries in 2022 by 480,000 acre-feet and that Assistant Secretary Trujillo had asked the Basin States for comments on this proposal. … Continue reading
Tagged Basin States, Colorado River, drought, Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell, Tanya Trujillo, water
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Feds Considering Emergency Reductions to Colorado River Deliveries
by Fred Breedlove In an April 8, 2022 letter to each of the seven Colorado River basin states, the Interior Department asked for comments by April 22 about its plan to reduce releases from Glen Canyon Dam to 7.0 million … Continue reading
Tagged drought, Glen Canyon Damn, Lake Powell, Tanya Trujillo, water
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Alphabet’s Wing Initiates Drone Delivery Service in Texas
by Patrick J. Paul On April 7, 2022, Alphabet’s Wing launched commercial drone delivery service in two suburban towns north of Dallas, Texas – Frisco and Little Elm – where Wing had been testing its service over the last year … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Clean Water Rule (For Now)
by Patrick J. Paul On Wednesday, April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision stayed a Northern District of California Court decision that both remanded and vacated EPA Trump-era rules regarding water quality certification of projects under Clean … Continue reading
Tagged 401, clean water act
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FERC Seeks Over $508 Million to Accomplish 2023 Strategic Priorities
by Kelly A. Daly Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) submitted its Fiscal Year 2023 Congressional Justification. This document, which is submitted annually, consolidates the Annual Performance Plan with the Performance Budget Request for the primary purpose of communicating … Continue reading
Tagged environmental justice, FERC, FERC Budget, FERC priorities, safeguarding the electric grid
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EPA Removes Obstacles to “Sue and Settle”
by Mitchell J. Klein In a memo to agency leadership sent earlier this month, EPA Administrator Michael Regan rescinded practices that were instituted by one of his Trump-era predecessors, Scott Pruitt, to eliminate what has been referred to by some … Continue reading
Tagged "sue and settle", EPA, Michael Regan, scott pruitt
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