By Lloyd Dunkelberger | August 9, 2017
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a key player in Florida's decades-old legal fight with Georgia over water flow in the Apalachicola River, has weighed into the pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Marcia Coyle | August 9, 2017
Environmental advocacy groups are considering their next step after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit allowed another 60-day delay in a decision in the lawsuit.
By Meghan Tribe | August 4, 2017
The firm has brought on Allen O'Neil, Christine Ryan and Emily Streett as partners in Washington, D.C., from Holland & Knight, where the trio joined the latter three years ago in a mass lateral move from now-defunct boutique Brickfield, Burchette, Ritts & Stone.
By Cogan Schneier | August 2, 2017
Democratic state attorneys general scored two wins in D.C. Circuit Court in 24 hours allowing them to defend Obama-era health care and environment policies under threat from Republicans and the Trump administration.
By Mary Alice Robbins | August 1, 2017
Baker Botts has played a significant role in the evolution of the energy industry since the discovery of oil on Spindletop Hill in 1901 changed the Texas economy.
By Miriam Rozen | August 1, 2017
When Exxon Mobil Corp. endorsed a carbon tax proposal initiated by former Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz, some observers foresaw a future with dramatically fewer regulations. Not W. Thaddeus "Thad" Miller, the executive vice president and chief legal officer of Houston-based electricity provider Calpine Corp., who also endorses the Baker proposal.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | July 27, 2017
An unfortunate kerfuffle has risen between those wanting to preserve prime agricultural land — some of it lying fallow in Connecticut's moribund farming economy — and another constituency also on the green side of things seeking more renewable energy through photovoltaics.
By Rebecca Cohen | July 25, 2017
Baker Botts has recruited environmental partner Christopher Carr in San Francisco from Morrison & Foerster, where he was chair of the latter's environment and energy group and co-chair of the firm's unmanned aerial systems and drone group.
By Terry R. Bossert | July 25, 2017
On June 20, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a significant and potentially far-reaching opinion in Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2017 Pa. LEXIS 1393, No. 10 MAP 2015 (June 20, 2017).
By Andrew S. Levine and Catherine M. Ward | July 25, 2017
The Trump administration's proposed budget cut of approximately 25 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement budget ($129 million) is consistent with candidate Trump's platform targeting the EPA for failing to appropriately favor crucial business interests against what he perceives as environmentalists hell-bent on the dismantlement of the U.S. industrial base.
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