1/28/2026 2:27:00 PM Climate Analysis in Louisiana’s Coastal Permitting Regime: The Second Commonwealth LNG Petition By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes Andrew Hughes In October 2025, a district court in Cameron Parish granted a challenge brought by environmental justice groups who sought to vacate a...
1/14/2026 11:18:00 AM Three CCS Bills Prefiled for 2026 Louisiana Regular Session By Neil Abramson Jeff Lieberman Speaker Pro Tempore Mike Johnson filed three CCS bills on January 12, which was the first day to prefile legislation for the Louisiana...
12/2/2025 8:02:44 PM Greenwashing Hits Home: New Washington Lawsuit Alleges Climate Deception by Fossil Fuel Companies is Linked to Rising Home Insurance Premiums By Andrew Hughes Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze +1 more... Show less A newly filed class action in the Western District of Washington advances a novel theory of greenwashing liability by suggesting...
11/12/2025 8:53:40 PM Podcast: All’s Well that Ends in a Well: Drilling Contracts By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden discuss significant legal cases affecting the energy...
11/10/2025 8:28:08 PM When “Net Zero” Meets the Courtroom: Energy Companies and the Rise of Greenwashing Litigation By Andrew Hughes Kelly Becker James Lapeze Jamie Rhymes +1 more... Show less A Landmark Ruling in Paris In late October 2025, a Paris civil court handed down a decision that could reshape how global energy...
11/10/2025 6:58:52 PM Big Beautiful Gulf 1 Lease Sale to Offer 80 Million Acres for Leasing at 12.5% Royalty Rate By Jana Grauberger Kathleen Doody BOEM’s Final Notice of Sale (FNOS) for Big Beautiful Gulf 1 (BBG1), to be published in the Federal Register on November 10, 2025, will...
11/3/2025 9:06:09 PM ExxonMobil Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze In late October 2025, Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...
10/21/2025 1:30:00 PM Industries Push Trump Administration for Preemption of State PFAS Laws By Michael Mims With anxiety looming over regulation of so-called “forever chemicals,” some industry players have proposed a solution: federal...
10/14/2025 11:01:33 PM Government Shutdown and BOEM, BSEE and ONRR Contingency Plans By Jana Grauberger Kathleen Doody Due to the government shutdown, which began on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the...
9/5/2025 10:20:09 PM Podcast: Clearing the Air: Carbon Capture in the New Era By Liskow In this episode of “Energy Law This Week,” hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden are joined by LSU Law Professor, Keith Hall, to...
9/2/2025 1:03:28 PM Healthy Gulf’s Challenge to the 2024–2029 OCS Leasing Program Fails By Jana Grauberger Margaret Chavez On August 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (the “Court” or the “Healthy Gulf Court”) issued its decision...
8/25/2025 12:46:26 PM EPA and Other Agencies Publish Guidance on Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement By Sean Toomey Colin North Greg Johnson Clare Bienvenu +1 more... Show less On July 31, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a notice in the Federal Register, titled “Guidance on...