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EU Member States Agree on CSRD/CSDDD Omnibus Negotiating Mandate

By Zoé Bertrand, Hannah Edmonds-Camara, Daniel Feldman, Cándido García Molyneux, Paul Mertenskötter & Emma Sawatzky
July 16, 2025

On June 23, 2025 the Council of the EU, which represents the 27 EU Member States, agreed on its negotiating mandate for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (“CSDDD”) omnibus simplification.

This follows the…

CEQA Developments

State Budget Bill Includes Landmark CEQA and Housing Law Changes

By Arthur F. Coon, Travis Brooks & Miguel Mauricio
July 15, 2025

On June 30, 2025, Governor Newsom signed AB 130 and SB 131 into immediately effective law as budget trailer bills, marking a historic effort to accelerate housing production and to reform the CEQA review process that has been stifling housing…

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Sustainability in Business

Update on Germany’s Transposition of the CSRD

By Andreas Fillmann
July 15, 2025
Reichstag-building-with-German-flags

On 10 July 2025, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) released the draft legislation concerning the transposition of the CSRD.

Following the previous year’s draft legislation aimed at incorporating the CSRD into national law, which was not…

Green Building Law Update

Mold in the John Hanson House: Court Preserves Government Immunity at the Expense of Human Health

By Stuart Kaplow
July 13, 2025
Mold

Earlier this month, the Maryland Appellate Court issued a controversial ruling in Candace McCarthy v. Board of Commissioners for Frederick County, Maryland, holding that Frederick County is immune from a negligence claim stemming from mold exposure in the historic John…

Sustainability in Business

Issuance of the 2025 Chemicals Package

By Thomas Delille, Gerard McElwee, Peter Sellar & Marie Escorneboueu
July 11, 2025
chemical-barrels

The European Commission published on 8 July 2025 a Chemicals Package. The package is issued following a period of intense regulatory activity marked by the 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. It reveals a change of approach, oriented towards the reinforcement…

E2 Law Blog

Federal Agencies Roll Out New NEPA Regulations

By Courtney M. Shephard, Steven Barringer & Kerri Barsh
July 10, 2025
Book and Tree

Several federal agencies have released modified National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations.…

Sustainability in Business

EU Launches Call for Evidence on Revision of Combustion Engine and Vehicle Emissions Regulations

By Thomas Delille, Valerio Giovannini & Francesco Liberatore
July 10, 2025
auto-assembly-line-car

As previously reported on our blog, in January 2025, the European Commission launched a Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the Automotive Industry, aimed at addressing the challenges facing the sector. The initiative featured direct engagement by the industry…

Environmental Law & Policy Monitor

FERC Revises Regulations Implementing NEPA; Adopts Two Hydropower-Related Categorical Exclusions

By Chuck Sensiba, Elizabeth McCormick & Andrea Wortzel
July 9, 2025

On July 3, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final rule revising its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to remove references to the recently rescinded regulations implementing NEPA originally promulgated in 1978…

Agricultural Law Weekly Review

Agricultural Law Weekly Review—July 8, 2025

By Jackie Schweichler
July 8, 2025

Next Week: Tues. July 15—Quarterly Dairy Legal Webinar: 2025 Federal Milk Marketing Order Reforms
New! Progressive Dairy Podcast with Center Staff Attorney Brook Duer: How to Proactively Prepare and Protect Your Workforce Amid ICE Raids, I-9 Audits and Other…

CEQA Developments

“Double Counting” or Redundant Mitigation?  Second District Holds CEQA Guidelines’ Additionality Requirement Precludes Applying Upstream Energy or Fuel Providers’ Obligatory Cap-and-Trade Compliance To Offset Land Use Project’s Estimated GHG Emissions, Invalidates “Prejudicially Misleading” EIR For Massive LA County Centennial Project On That And Other Grounds

By Arthur F. Coon
July 8, 2025

In a partially published 102-page opinion filed June 26, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 7) resolved cross-appeals by affirming the trial court’s judgment invalidating Los Angeles County’s 2019 EIR certification and project approvals for the Centennial Specific…

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