Natural Resources & Environmental Surety Law
Regional, national, and international clients turn to the attorneys of Stites & Harbison for cutting-edge advice on business and legal issues related to transactions and mining and selling coal and other extractive products. Surety bonds issued for environmentally intensive activities implicate a complex combination of technical issues, regulatory oversight, and surety law. The firm’s team combines its knowledge of environmental, property, mineral, surety, and bankruptcy law with its understanding of the technical, “in the dirt” requirements of reclamation and site closure/post closure.
. . . have a deep understanding of mining reclamation and related environmental issues. They translate this expertise into practical advice that I rely on regularly in my business.
23rd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference
Embassy Suites by Hilton Lexington/UK Coldstream, 1801 Newtown Pike, Lexington, Ky. 40511
Environmental attorneys Jennifer Cave and Ken Gish will be speakers at the 23rd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference presented by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Lexington, Kentucky on March 26 and 27, 2025.
Impacts of the Demise of Chevron Deference on Environmental Law
On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S.Ct. 2244 (2024), the Supreme Court overruled its 1984 Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), decision and the legal doctrine of Chevron deference with it. In doing away with Chevron deference, the Court has broken from the accepted regulatory landscape of the last 40 years, which will have dramatic effects on environmental law for decades to come. Environmental attorney Jennifer Cave and summer associate Noah S. Dunaway take a look the Court’s decision and its impacts on regulated entities, beginning with an analysis of what Chevron deference was in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.
22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference
Embassy Suites by Hilton, Lexington/UK Coldstream, 1801 Newtown Pike, Lexington, Kentucky 40511
Jennifer Cave and Ken Gish will be speakers at this year's Kentucky Chamber of Commerce 22nd Annual Kentucky Environmental Conference to be held March 26-27 in Lexington, Ky.
Jennifer Cave Appointed Chair of Stites & Harbison's Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that attorney Jennifer J. Cave has been appointed Chair of the firm’s Environmental, Energy & Sustainability Service Group.