Company: L
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000060086-25-000036
Chunk: 40

Company: LOEWS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 40
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 pipeline industry.

Many state and local governments where Boardwalk Pipelines operates also have, or are developing, similar environmental or occupational health and safety legal requirements governing many of the same types of activities, and those requirements can be more stringent than those adopted under federal laws and regulations. Failure to comply with these federal, state and local laws and regulations may result in the assessment of administrative, civil and criminal penalties, the imposition of corrective or remedial obligations, the incurrence of capital expenditures, the occurrence of delays, denials or cancellations in permitting or the development or expansion of projects and the issuance of orders enjoining performance of some or all of Boardwalk Pipelines’ operations in the affected areas.

While the Biden Administration attempted to pursue additional actions to bolster environmental regulations, the future of these actions is uncertain. For example, the Biden Administration revised various rules to be more stringent, repealed various rules issued by the first Trump Administration, imposed restrictions on methane emissions from oil and gas operations and ground level ozone emission standards and took other actions to mitigate climate change and further limit greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions. In addition, in January 2023, the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) released guidance to assist federal agencies in assessing the GHG emissions and climate change effects of their proposed actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). In May 2024, the CEQ published a final rule that, in the second and final “phase” of updates, revised the implementing regulations of the procedural provisions of NEPA and implemented amendments to NEPA included in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The final rule was challenged by various states and the litigation remains ongoing. More recently, in November 2024, a panel of three judges 

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on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the CEQ lacks authority to issue NEPA regulations and followed with a statement by a majority of the judges suggesting that in future cases they may not rule similarly that the CEQ lacks rulemaking authority. In February 2025, the District Court for North Dakota also held that the CEQ lacks authority to issue NEPA regulations and vacated the CEQ’s 2024 “Phase 2” rule. Additionally, President Trump signed an energy-related Executive Order which included ordering the CEQ to propose rescinding its NEPA regulations. As a result, there is significant uncertainty with respect to current and future NEPA regulations. While Boardwalk Pipelines cannot predict the full impact of these developments,