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Digging Deep: Inside The Race For Domestic Critical Minerals
The United States faces unprecedented challenges in securing domestic supplies of critical minerals essential to national security, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. As global demand surges and geopolitical tensions reshape international trade relationships, innovative technologies are emerging to unlock domestic sources, improve refining efficiency, and transform industrial waste into valuable feedstocks.
Global Energy
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Foley Hoag LLP
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Building Resilience Through Infrastructure Investment (Video)
As climate-related risks intensify and infrastructure demands grow, how can resilience infrastructure strengthen economies and communities? This discussion examines the distinction between resilience infrastructure and resilient infrastructure, exploring investment opportunities in emerging markets and the role of blended finance in unlocking institutional capital. The conversation delves into key considerations for investors and the future of resilience-focused infrastructure development.
United States Energy
KL
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
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Senate Unveils Bipartisan Comprehensive Permitting Reform Bill
On September 30, 2026, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee Chair Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) unveiled the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA; S. 5653), a comprehensive permitting reform package aimed at accelerating approvals for energy, infrastructure, transmission, mining, manufacturing, and other major projects. The legislation represents the most significant bipartisan permitting reform effort in years and follows months of negotiations between Senate Republicans and Democrats.
United States Energy
AG
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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ATSDR Seeks Public Comment On Draft ToxProfiles For Cadmium And Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has released draft toxicological profiles for cadmium and hexachlorocyclopentadiene, two priority hazardous substances under the Superfund program. These comprehensive evaluations establish new minimal risk levels based on updated scientific evidence and propose health-based reference values that will inform regulatory risk assessments worldwide.
United States Environment
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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TSCA Reform, Ten Years Later — Panel 4: Where Are We? (Podcast)
The 2016 Lautenberg Amendments promised to revolutionize chemical safety regulation in the United States, but have four administrations successfully implemented Congress's vision? This discussion brings together diverse stakeholders to debate whether EPA's decade-long implementation of TSCA reforms has achieved its public health goals, or if a fundamental reimagining of chemical regulation is needed.
United States Environment
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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Senate Unveils Bipartisan Comprehensive Permitting Reform Bill
On September 30, 2026, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee Chair Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) unveiled the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA; S. 5653), a comprehensive permitting reform package aimed at accelerating approvals for energy, infrastructure, transmission, mining, manufacturing, and other major projects. The legislation represents the most significant bipartisan permitting reform effort in years and follows months of negotiations between Senate Republicans and Democrats.
United States Energy
AG
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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Celebrating California’s Water Professionals
California's water professionals work tirelessly to ensure safe and reliable water, wastewater, and recycled water services across the state, especially as the region faces a hotter, drier climate with extreme weather events. This recognition highlights the essential expertise and dedication these professionals bring to their communities while encouraging the next generation to consider rewarding careers in the water industry.
United States Energy
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Nossaman LLP
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Renewables

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Flipping The Switch: Protect Your Solar Lease Before The Power Flows
In California, solar operators leasing land for their projects face a critical risk: foreclosure by a junior lienholder could extinguish their lease and force premature project removal, potentially triggering defaults under revenue agreements. A simple yet often overlooked solution—recording a Memorandum of Lease—can protect the project from most foreclosures by establishing the lease's priority in the chain of title.
United States Real Estate
CC
Cox, Castle & Nicholson
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Digging Deep: Inside The Race For Domestic Critical Minerals
The United States faces unprecedented challenges in securing domestic supplies of critical minerals essential to national security, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. As global demand surges and geopolitical tensions reshape international trade relationships, innovative technologies are emerging to unlock domestic sources, improve refining efficiency, and transform industrial waste into valuable feedstocks.
Global Energy
FH
Foley Hoag LLP
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Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement On Permitting Reform Text
On Sept. 30, 2026, Senate negotiators announced agreement on the text of the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” a long-awaited bill to reform and expedite federal environmental and energy permitting. The 417-page bill is the product of intensive negotiations among the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee that began early in the 119th Congress.
United States Environment
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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