News & Press Releases

Environmental Law Chair Jeff Porter spoke with Law360 about the chances that the State of Florida, or any other State, will receive authority from the EPA to issue Clean Water Act Section 404 “dredge and fill” permits anytime soon. Florida had been given that authority by the EPA at the end of the Trump administration, only to have a Federal Judge take it away last week.

ESG Co-chair Jacob Hupart spoke with Lexology PRO, providing insight into how the litigation over the SEC climate disclosure rule may play out.

ESG Co-chair Jacob Hupart spoke with Bloomberg Law about how the lobbying efforts of the American Farm Bureau Federation influenced the SEC to narrow its proposed climate disclosure requirements, leading to the exclusion of the Scope 3 mandate that would have impacted farmers. 

Mintz recently filed an amicus brief urging the US Supreme Court to protect access to emergency care for pregnant women under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in the consolidated cases Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States that the Court will hear on April 24th.

ESG Co-chair Jacob Hupart spoke to Bloomberg Law on the SEC’s decision to pause the implementation of its climate reporting rules allowing litigation to accelerate.