Mexico: Environmental Law

President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on April 8 a significant shift in Mexico’s energy policy by unveiling a project to exploit natural gas through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) beginning next year.

Mexico's environmental authority SEMARNAT has published sweeping administrative reforms that consolidate environmental impact assessment procedures, reducing requirements and processing times across multiple...

This alert examines major environmental regulatory developments across Latin America from January to March 2026, including Mexico's new circular economy law, Chile and Costa Rica's marine protected area proposals, and regional initiatives for sustainable finance and plastic waste management.

Erick Hernández Gallego, Luis Jorge Akle, and Paula de Uriarte wrote an article titled "Update of the Regulatory Framework for Sustainability...

New maximum terms have been established for the permits granted by the Ministry of Energy (SENER) or the National Energy Commission (CNE), notably reducing the validity period for commercialization permit holders from thirty to two years.

On October 17, 2025, three important instruments for the electricity sector were published in the Federal Register...

On March 27, 2025, Mexico's Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) published an agreement in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) outlining simplification...

El pasado 27 de marzo de 2025, la Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios ("COFEPRIS") publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación ("DOF"), el Acuerdo por el que se establecen acciones...

In 2021, Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law imposing reporting requirements and material restrictions on all products containing intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).