United States: Climate Change

California will continue to set the pace for environmental regulation in 2026, using its rulemaking, enforcement, and market influence to drive requirements that often become de facto national standards for companies...

In October 2025, a district court in Cameron Parish granted a challenge brought by environmental justice groups who sought to vacate a coastal use permit (CUP) issued by the Office of Coastal Management (OCM)...

As we previously noted, a legal challenge to California's climate disclosure laws has made its way to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which stayed enforcement of one of the laws pending appeal.

La presente alerta tiene el objetivo de presentar las noticias más relevantes acontecidas en el ámbito ambiental en Latinoamérica por el periodo comprendido entre mayo y diciembre de 2025.

In March 2024, the SEC adopted rules entitled "The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors" (the "Climate Rules"), intended to standardize how public companies report material...

On January 9, 2026, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in a challenge to California Senate Bills (SB) 261 and 253 in Chamber of Commerce v. Sanchez, No. 25-5327 (9th Cir. 2025).

everal years ago, the Connecticut Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company had engaged in a decades-long "systematic campaign of deception" concerning the impact of its fossil fuel products on the earth's climate ...

The EU Deforestation Regulation ("EUDR") aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and their corresponding impacts on climate change, by ensuring that in-scope commodities and products placed on the EU market (or exported) are deforestation-free, produced in accordance with the laws of the country of production, and covered by a due-diligence statement.

The United States Supreme Court is currently presented with what many believe is the best opportunity for the Court to provide sorely needed guidance in the vastly growing climate change docket—where energy companies are facing liability for injuries allegedly sustained due to greenhouse gas emissions