BREAKING: The Supreme Court *defers* deciding if President Donald Trump can fire U.S. Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter until the justices rule on his attempts to fire FTC and Federal Reserve officials. #SCOTUS Justice Thomas would've allowed the firing.

@law360.bsky.social is tracking #climatesky lawsuits against fossil fuel companies here: www.law360.com/climate-tort...

SCOOP: Witnesses invited to next week's Senate Judiciary hearing on impeachment of judges included Judges Boasberg of DC and Boardman of Maryland. Both declined to appear House Reps. have introduced articles of impeachment for both www.law360.com/articles/241...

Mark your calendars, the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on impeaching "rogue" judges has been rescheduled for 12/3 at 2:30pm www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

A North Carolina federal judge declined to block the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in enforcement penalties against an energy efficiency aggregator, saying the company hasn't shown its constitutional rights have been violated.

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: A federal judge refused to block @ferc.gov’s $1B enforcement case against an #energysky efficiency aggregator, saying the company hasn’t shown that it violates their 7th Amendment rights to a jury trial. www.law360.com/articles/241...

The Trump administration says its proposal to shrink the Clean Water Act's reach would reduce regulatory burdens and provide clarity to farmers, homebuilders and other businesses, but it could face court challenges and potential reworking by future administrations.

Bipartisan lawmakers, ex-judges & former federal officials say claims that a 1935 Supreme Court ruling empowering Congress to limit the president's ability to fire agency officials was a seachange in the law are wrong. It's actually an "originalist" idea. www.law360.com/articles/241...

Environmental groups have sued New York and New Jersey environmental regulators over their issuance of Clean Water Act permits for a controversial Williams Cos. pipeline upgrade after previously denying the permits over pollution concerns. www.law360.com/artic...

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed four rules that would significantly weaken Endangered Species Act protections for plants and animals, drawing immediate condemnation from environmental and conservation groups.

The Trump administration says its proposal to shrink the Clean Water Act's reach would reduce regulatory burdens and provide clarity to farmers, homebuilders and other businesses, but it could face court challenges and potential reworking by future administrations. www.law360.com/artic...

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday lamented a lack of clear guidance from higher courts as she considered whether wind farm permits can be put on hold indefinitely based solely on a directive from the president. www.law360.com/artic...

The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers on Monday proposed new limits on their ability to enforce the Clean Water Act, saying prior understandings of the federal government's authority were too broad. www.law360.com/artic...

Federal government agencies with environmental responsibilities have begun using artificial intelligence tools, but attorneys say information about why, how and when they are being used has been hard to get, leading to uncertainty about their effectiveness and shortcomings. www.law360.com/artic...

Scoop: I have learned Trump went after wind farms for eagle deaths during the government shutdown. Thousands and thousands in fines over birds that died at least a year ago or more. Via @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

A group of former federal judges on Thursday condemned what they called "inflammatory remarks" last week by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche detailing the U.S. Department of Justice's "war" with "rogue activist" judges.

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: #EnergySky development lawyers say clean energy developers are increasingly looking to privately held investors to ensure they can do enough work to keep their projects fully eligible for tax credits that start phasing out next year. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission members told the Supreme Court that overturning limits on the president's authority to fire certain agency officials may undermine FERC's independent oversight of the electricity and gas industries and harm companies and consumers.

JUST IN: Bipartisan group of ex- @ferc.gov commissioners tell #SCOTUS that overturning limits on the president's authority to fire certain agency officials could undermine independent oversight of the electricity and gas industries and harm companies and consumers. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

Law360 is hiring a senior environmental reporter: relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Law360...

Enbridge and the state of Michigan on Wednesday debated before a federal judge whether state or federal authority should win the day in their long-running dispute over the future of a petroleum pipeline that crosses the Great Lakes.

Minnesota's capital city and several clean energy advocates have sued the U.S. Energy Department over its termination of over $7.5 billion in grants for energy projects, accusing the agency of unconstitutionally targeting projects primarily in blue states.

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind (also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

JUST IN: My @law360.bsky.social story on #SCOTUS refusing to review a ruling backing FERC’s revocation of an RTO adder incentive, rejecting petitions from AEP and FirstEnergy’s Ohio utilities. More TK. #energysky www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Please sign this petition in support of our siblings at @condeunion.bsky.social who were fired in the most cowardly way we've ever seen. We are only getting started fighting back.

News: How the prolonged shutdown is impacting federal defenders/CJA panel attorneys AND budget anomalies the judiciary has submitted to Congress for a possible CR www.law360.com/articles/240...

And NJ as well, though they still have to approve an air permit for the project. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: @pjminterconnection.bsky.social, which has come under fire for limiting state involvement in its policymaking, will face more pressure following the election victories of NJ and Va. governors who campaigned on lowering utility bills. www.law360.com/compliance/a...

The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its support behind President Donald Trump's effort to overturn his New York criminal conviction for falsifying business records. www.law360.com/artic...

President Donald Trump nominated former New Mexico Republican congressman Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Department of the Interior office that oversees energy development on federal lands. www.law360.com/artic...

Several U.S. Supreme Court justices asked the government to defend why well-established judicial doctrines shouldn't limit President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act during oral arguments Wednesday. www.law360.com/artic...

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

My @law360.bsky.social story on the Dc Circuit today backing the #energysky Dept.’s tighter efficiency standards for furnaces and water heaters finalized in 2023. www.law360.com/energy/artic...

Anybody know if a University of Chicago economist who wasn't even in the government at the time wrote almost half of the regulatory impact analysis for EPA's endangerment/car rules draft repeal? Because it sure looks like he did. Signal jchemnick.01. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Feature alert: It's been about 5 months since DOJ cut ties with the ABA. Here's how judicial nominee ratings (long considered the gold standard) are going and what folks on both sides are saying www.law360.com/pulse/articl...

Scoop: The EPA has reconsidered its plans to kill the popular Energy Star program in response to intense backlash. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...

I got a bat scoop just for Halloween 🦇 Earlier this month, a mysterious DOE 'hit list' was leaked to the press that put $24B in federal clean-energy funding on the chopping block. I just discovered that critical research studying bats in future wind farm areas has officially been axed. 🪓

The D.C. Circuit asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission whether it was "reasonable to ignore the future" when conducting environmental assessments for nuclear power plant license renewals during oral arguments.

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: The Trump administration's push to convince @ferc.gov to enable the connection of data centers to the grid may ignite a legal turf war with states over their authority to regulate retail #electricity sales. #energysky www.law360.com/energy/artic...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Laura Swett, a former Vinson & Elkins energy attorney, has named another V&E energy lawyer based in the nation's capital as the agency's next general counsel.

huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled. would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes. why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians. my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Exxon Mobil is suing California over state laws the company says violate its First Amendment rights by forcing it "to serve as a mouthpiece" for ideas it disagrees with, including that large companies are uniquely responsible for climate change. www.law360.com/artic...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging a federal court not to dismiss its intervenor claims alleging that the state violated the Clean Air Act through its adoption of new emissions standards for heavy duty trucks. www.law360.com/artic...

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright is pressing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to enact rules to speed up the connection of data centers to the grid, claiming the agency has the federal authority to do so.

My latest for @law360.bsky.social: #Energysky companies are starting to feel the pinch of the federal government shutdown, as scaled-back operations and new furlough announcements at the EPA threaten the approval of needed permits and the issuance of regulations. www.law360.com/articles/240...

Conservative groups are working the White House, Homeland Security, DOJ to go after prominent environmental organizations. It's part of an effort to link progressive groups to Antifa, despite the lack of evidence. Stripping away nonprofit status is only 1st step. www.eenews.net/articles/gre...

Scoop: A court ruling last week quietly derailed battery storage development in more than half of L.A. County after activists successfully sued to kill a 400 megawatt battery in a wildfire risk area @heatmap.news #greensky #energysky

The first time I'm seeing this during the shutdown "Because of the lapse in appropriations, EPA may not be able to assign staff to respond to your request and EPA’s response may be delayed." This is on EPA's #FOIA public access link (where you file requests and download records) #FOIA4eva

SCOOP from me: I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built. Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵