Next Week:
Tues. Oct. 28: AgWorks: Legal Authority to Work in the U.S. and Other Pre-Employment Screening Processes
Fri. Oct. 31: Understanding Immigration Compliance: I-9s, Audits and ICE Raids (FREE Attorney CLE!)
Water Quality: Maryland Announces Conowingo Dam Settlement Agreement
On October 2, 2025, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association,…

On September 29, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”), a federal agency within the Office of the President, issued a 10-page memorandum directed to federal department and agency heads, providing guidance on implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, (“NEPA”; 42. U.S.C. § 4321 et seq), the federal counterpart of CEQA.  That guidance, which can be found here, includes an overview of NEPA and its recent amendments, stressing – in line with recent U.S. Supreme Court authority – its nature as a “purely procedural” statute, and “provid[ing] guidance for federal agencies to use when establishing or revising their agency-specific NEPA implementing procedures.”  It was accompanied by a 23-page template to assist agencies in that endeavor.

On 17 October 2025, Regulation (EU) 2025/2083 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism (“CBAM”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (the “CBAM Simplification Regulation”). This is the first instrument to amend Regulation…

Seyfarth Synopsis: Newly-confirmed member on Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission offers hope for eventual resolutions of pending cases.

On October 10, 2025, the Senate confirmed Jonathan L. Snare to serve as a Commissioner of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), filling one of the long-vacant seats on the three-member appellate panel for…

Imagine you’re running late for a flight. You get into the TSA line, which snakes longer than expected. People fumble with their countless carry-ons, one person argues about the “new” twenty-year-old liquid restriction, and you worry you’ll miss your departure—yet you wouldn’t skip the safety checks. That’s what permitting often feels like: urgent projects—mines, transmission…

Signed into law on July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) permanently reshapes the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax landscape. For high-net-worth individuals and families, these changes deliver clarity and opportunity—but only if acted on thoughtfully. For those who are under the new higher exemption amounts and who have overplanned…