SCOOP: Consumers Energy has formally asked @ferc.gov to let it recoup approx $42M for running a coal-fired power plant to comply with a Energy Dept. emergency order, an order that is currently being challenged in court. #energysky #climatesky www.law360.com/articles/243...

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

JUST IN: MA federal judge enjoins Trump admin stop work order for Vineyard Wind project, the 4th straight win for #offshore wind developers in efforts to restart halted projects. #energysky #climatesly #greensky

A three-judge panel said the Ramsey County District Court correctly determined that the companies could not use the state's law against abusive litigation to have the lawsuit tossed because the statutes do not apply to enforcement actions brought by the attorney general.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's antitrust lawsuit against fossil fuel companies opens a new front in climate change tort litigation, and is a riposte to red states using antitrust law to target pro-climate actions by companies.

As always, keep tabs on #climatesky tort developments with @law360.bsky.social’s Climate Tort Tracker. #energysky #greensky www.law360.com/climate-tort...

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: Michigan AG Dana Nessel's antitrust lawsuit against fossil fuel companies opens a new front in #climatesky tort litigation, and is a riposte to red states using antitrust law to target pro-climate actions by companies. #energysky www.law360.com/articles/243...

In other news the US began importing #solar panels with cells made in #Ethiopia in July 2025. By Oct. '25 value had grown to $92 million, or about 300 MW. In a single month. Ethiopia was the 4th-biggest source of US #solar imports in Sept. '25 and 2nd in Oct. '25 after Indonesia. Watch this space.

Federal courts aren't buying the Trump administration's argument that construction of offshore wind farms should be halted for national security reasons, with some judges suggesting that the government isn't making its claim in good faith. www.law360.com/artic...

"It is so unusual for any administration to invoke national security and be shut down by a court," a construction lawyer who works on federal contracting issues told me. "That is an incredibly low bar, and yet, they didn't clear it." #energysky #greensky #climatesky

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: Federal courts aren't buying the Trump admin’s argument that construction of offshore wind farms should be halted for national security reasons, with some judges suggesting that the government isn't making its claim in good faith. www.law360.com/articles/243...

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve used the words “For Now” in a headline.

Scoop: The Trump administration is preventing Vineyard Wind from implementing major safety fixes to its offshore turbines, threatening public safety and the environment An absolutely massive story in collaboration with @emilypont.bsky.social who took the lead for @heatmap.news

NEW: Got some deets on the new assistant AG for fraud role A DOJ letter to Congress explaining the new position/division does NOT mention WH oversight as Vance previously said www.law360.com/articles/243...

Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term. www.law360.com/artic...

Story here: www.law360.com/articles/243...

I just asked Speaker Johnson what his reaction is to increased pressure from senate republicans to impeach judges and he said “I’m for it” Full response tk

Plenty of @ferc.gov watchers will be listening in.

My @law360.bsky.social story on the WH joining @pjminterconnection.bsky.social state govs in pressuring the grid operator to solve its power demand/power price issues…and why some #energysky regulatory experts are skeptical that it will move the needle much. www.law360.com/compliance/a...

Here’s my @law360.bsky.social story on the decision. www.law360.com/articles/243...

JUST IN: Federal judge GRANTS injunction lifting stop work order of Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, following a morning hearing. Trump administration is now 0-for-3 in court this week over its #offshorewind stoppages. #energysky #greensky #climatesky

My @law360.bsky.social story on a 2nd federal judge enjoining the Trump admin’s stoppsge of an #offshore wind project, this time, Empire Wind. #energysky www.law360.com/articles/243...

JUST IN: DC federal judge grants injunction allowing work on Empire Wind project to resume. Comes 3 days after different judge enjoined stoppage of Revolution Wind project. #energysky #greensky #climatesky

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: The EPA’s decision to no longer put a dollar value on health benefits when crafting certain air pollution rules could be scrutinized in lawsuits, which could force the agency to justify departing from its long-standing practice. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

Story here: www.law360.com/articles/243...

Interesting development in the #offshorewind litigation today: Associate AG Stanley Woodward, No. 3 at DOJ, entered an appearance on behalf of the feds in the lawsuit over the Empire Wind stoppage. #energysky

A group of young people asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders, arguing the lower court erred by saying it did not have jurisdiction to rule on the matter. www.law360.com/artic...

Clean energy advocates asked a federal judge to block a suite of Trump administration actions aimed at restricting wind and solar development, claiming there's no justification for the policies aside from the administration being anti-renewable energy. www.law360.com/artic...

New York is challenging a federal order halting construction of two offshore wind projects that are projected to power more than a million homes, saying the Trump administration has not explained why the projects have suddenly presented national security concerns. www.law360.com/artic...

Taken literally, that could implicate wind projects wholly sited on private land, given the DOI memo from July establishing secretarial level review processes for any wind and solar project with a federal nexus.

A suit accusing oil companies of contributing to increasing homeowners insurance premiums opened up a new consumer-oriented front in a wave of climate change litigation that experts say they only expect to see more of in the coming years. www.law360.com/insur... #InsuranceAuthority

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from considering Chevron and ExxonMobil's effort to place Louisiana pollution lawsuits stemming from the companies' World War II-era production in federal court, just days before the justices hear oral arguments in the case.

Legal eagles, would love your thoughts on this courtney.buble@law360 dot com

The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit that a proposed class action accusing it of illegally terminating a $3 billion environmental justice block grant program is moot because Congress has rescinded the funds that the plaintiffs are seeking to recover. www.law360.com/artic...

Danish energy developer Ørsted has expanded its legal fight against the Trump administration's latest order halting offshore wind projects, filing a lawsuit claiming the order unlawfully blocks the construction of its Sunrise Wind project. www.law360.com/artic...

U.S. oil and gas companies will need significant legal and regulatory assurances that any new investment in Venezuela will be shielded from political instability before heeding President Donald Trump's call to fortify the country's floundering oil and gas industry. www.law360.com/artic...

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: US #oil and #gas companies will need legal and regulatory assurances that any new investment in Venezuela will be shielded from political instability before heeding President Trump's call to fortify the country's floundering industry. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

trump’s been sued by dominion energy over the offshore wind freeze

The DOD study completed last month half-answers Question 3, but the other half, plus Questions 1 and 2, still are unanswered. #energysky bsky.app/profile/kdgs...

EXCLUSIVE: I received a copy of the letter sent to developers today halting construction on all 5 offshore wind farms being built in America. What’s new here is the close “coordination” with the “Department of War” in determining the “risk” poised by these wind farms. And the threat to “cancel.”

The wind permitting freeze EO was vacated earlier this month as being arbitrary and capricious. I’m wondering if there’s an even stronger arbitrary and capricious argument to be made against this latest pause. #energysky #climatesky

Construction on five offshore wind projects along the Atlantic coast was paused Monday by the U.S. Department of Interior over national security concerns, according to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. www.law360.com/artic...

The IRS released guidance Friday easing the carbon capture tax credit's environmental reporting requirements. www.law360.com/artic...

Trump just said this: "Within the next 12 months, we will have opened 1600 new electrical generating plants, a record. And it's a record that won't be beaten by practically, I would say, by anybody, or certainly not." That's not even on the same planet as reality.

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit reversed an order issued by a panel of its own judges and reinstated a federal district court's order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants designated for climate change projects. www.law360.com/artic...

The language would, in the eyes of wonks, provide a legal liability shield to the Trump administration so it could muck with additional renewable energy projects, on and off the shore

Climate perils have depressed home values in some of the riskiest markets as insurers charge homeowners more for coverage. Law360 talks to Philip Mulder, who updated a study tying insurance costs to climate risks to include more data and information on threats to home values.

Yesterday’s hearing on the injunction bid seeking to block the Energy Dept.’s termination of $7.5B in #energysky project grants.

In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter. David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would ​“crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition. I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.