A seminar on Families First Coronavirus Response Act and CARES Act was held on April 1 by Blankenau Wilmoth Jarecke LLP. Here is a link to the webinar https...

In the latest chapter of a decades-long fight, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 15 ended its period for comment on a much-anticipated new r...

Is the Sparta-Memphis Aquifer an interstate resource? That will be the question before Special Master Eugene Siler, Jr. when he hears arguments from attorney...

At about five o’clock in the morning on March 14, a wall of water eleven-feet high breached Spencer Dam, crumbling the dam’s structure and washing its water ...

In 2015, Congress passed a law providing a 30% investment tax credit for solar developers. Since then, there has been much confusion about the sunset provisi...

The 2018 Agriculture and Nutrition Act (commonly referred to as the “Farm Bill”), a $489 billion piece of legislation which aims to fund a wide variety of ru...

The American Public Power Association authored a recent report regarding titled retail electric prices comparing rates in states with deregulated electric ma...

The California Energy Commission approved the 2019 Building Energy Code on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, requiring renewable energy access for all new residential ...

The Department of Energy has announced a new multi-million (nearly $70M) dollar research and development grant program aimed at achieving the following three...

For the first time in the utility industry the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given authorization to a utility company to utilize drone technology...

The following article was produced by GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press and is copied in full herein. The State of Nebraska was represented by Blankenau Wilmot...

On June 27, 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed to rescind current Clean Water Act rules and re-codify the regulat...

On March 28, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13783, Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. The Order rolls back the prior administra...

On June 27, 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed to rescind current Clean Water Act rules and re-codify the regulat...

On April 7, 2017, the Nebraska Supreme Court issued its decision in Estermann v. Bose et al., 296 Neb. 228, ___N.W.2d___(2017). The case centered around the ...

Following the inauguration of President Trump, a flurry of orders have made their way across the oval office desk. Thus far Trump’s executive actions have r...

The Thurston County District Court has dismissed upstream landowners’ suit against a downstream landowner and Thurston County. Plaintiffs sued the County and...

After months of negotiations, three Nebraska political subdivisions announce they had reached agreement on the transfer of the controlling water rights to th...

While it has been years in the making, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today published the final rule clarifyin...

Editorial, 3/2: Ruling bodes well for future March 01, 2015 11:59 pm • By the Journal Star editorial board The ruling handed down last week by the U.S. Su...