News
Innovations in Space: Space mining
14 September 2021
New technologies are reshaping the Space and Satellite arena, evolving, expanding, and combining in ways never before contemplated. Through our Innovations in Space series we examine...
Publications
News
The development of natural resources in outer space
01 September 2021
We are in the first phase of a second space age, building on exploration that led to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
Media Mention
Into the Legal Void: Asteroid Mining and the Second Space Age People Places Planet Podcast | Environmental Law - Institute
21 July 2021
In the latest episode of People Places Planet Podcast, ELI Staff Attorney Cynthia Harris talks to Scot Anderson and Julia La Manna to help us navigate this uncertain terrain.
Published Works
Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy - The United States: Mining Laws Springer
June 2021
The United States has vast mineral resources, the development and use of which are fundamental to the U.S. economy. Denver Energy and Natural Resources lawyers Scot Anderson, Paul Hilton,...
Media Mention
The battle for Mars: How Elon Musk, Blue Origin, and the U.S. could set up the first extraterrestrial government The Independent
23 December 2020
Once a community is set up on Mars, discussions will need to be had about exactly how it is governed and functions.
News
Final NEPA rule and its consequences
28 July 2020
On 16 July, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) final rule, which largely shadows the proposed NEPA rule that was...
Hogan Lovells Publications
Trump administration issues Executive Order encouraging space mining efforts
02 June 2020
On April 6, 2020, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources, focused on long-term exploration and...
Hogan Lovells Publications
A Comparative Guide: Impact of COVID-19 on the Infrastructure and Energy Sector
15 May 2020
COVID-19 challenges on the infrastructure and energy sector and critical drivers of growth and sustainability
Hogan Lovells Publications
Suspensions of federal and Indian oil and gas leases
23 April 2020
With storage pressure and pandemic-reduced demand driving oil prices into freefall, lessees of federal and Indian lands may consider turning to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and...
