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...
12/3/2025 4:13:55 PM SCOTUS Presented with Best Opportunity to Weigh In on Climate Change Litigation By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze The United States Supreme Court is currently presented with what many believe is the best opportunity for the Court to provide...
12/1/2025 8:44:11 PM DOI Issues Draft Proposed 2026-2031 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: Sales Scheduled for Alaska, Gulf of America, and Pacific Regions By Jana Grauberger Bradford Laperouse Kathleen Doody On November 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) published its Notice of Availability of the 1st Analysis and Proposal of...
11/18/2025 5:57:53 PM 2026 Internal Revenue Service Limits Annual Cost of Living Adjustments By Robert Mashburn At long last the government shut-down of 2025 ends as President Trump Signs legislation extending funding for most governmental agencies....
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...
8/19/2025 3:42:03 PM Louisiana Department of Revenue Provides Guidance Regarding Recent Sales Tax Changes By Bob Angelico Caroline Lafourcade Kevin Naccari Last week, the Louisiana Department of Revenue (the “Department”) issued guidance regarding recent sales and use tax law changes. The...
8/14/2025 2:14:14 PM La. Department of Revenue Addresses Changes to Contractor Exemptions for PILOT Agreements By Caroline Lafourcade Bob Angelico Kevin Naccari The Louisiana Department of Revenue (LDR) recently issued Louisiana Revenue Information Bulletin No. 25-022, 08/08/2025, announcing...