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Key Developments - Foley & Lardner LLP partner Vanessa Miller commented on a series of recent Michigan court decisions impacting the automotive supply chain in the Law360 article, “Biggest Transportation Decisions: Midyear...more
Achieving climate goals will require significant capital investment into the development and scaling of improved battery technologies. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), enacted in August 2022, allocated billions of dollars...more
Just this month, the U.S. Government clarified that all vehicles sold with batteries manufactured in or made of critical minerals mined from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran will be excluded from the $7,500 Section 30D...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a final rule on May 6, 2024, defining eligibility requirements for the clean vehicle credit under Section 30D of the Internal Revenue Code, enacted by the Inflation Reduction Act...more
The Department of Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Energy finalized guidance on the requirements for new and used clean vehicles to be eligible for federal tax credits....more
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a direct final rule (DFR) on April 29, 2024, to amend and align the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program (ATVM) implementing regulations1 with its...more
Newly issued final EV tax credit rules largely stick to proposed rules with some flexibility on graphite through end of ’26, clarifications on FEOC definitions that could be significant. On May 3, 2024 the Department of the...more
Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & Inflation Reduction Act Opportunities - Visit our Energy Funding Matrix for a roundup of various federal clean energy funding and financing opportunities. We update the matrix on a biweekly...more
Proposed regulations clarify FEOC restrictions and clean vehicle tax credit compliance for manufacturers aiming to produce eligible EVs. As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to...more
Congress returned for the second half of the 118th Congress in January with an immediate agenda focused on avoiding a government shutdown, a priority that has been punted several times through continuing resolutions, and...more
Eyes on Energy Tax Update is a quarterly publication of the Holland & Knight Renewable and Alternative Energy Tax Team that provides highlights of important developments. The Renewable and Alternative Energy Tax Team also...more
New proposed Treasury and Department of Energy ("DOE") guidance, issued on December 1, 2023, offers clarity on which vehicles will be disqualified from the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit due to the inclusion of minerals or...more
On December 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published long-awaited proposed regulations (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) regarding the Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) exclusions...more
Climate Corps Listening Sessions - The White House has announced a series of virtual listening sessions for the newly launched American Climate Corps to be held in January and February 2024. With a goal of recruiting...more
On December 1, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released long-awaited proposed guidance defining “foreign entity of concern” (FEOC) under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Simultaneously, the U.S....more
National Climate Assessment + New Funding for Climate Resilience - The US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which provides authoritative information on the risks, impacts, and...more
In litigation news . . . For the third consecutive month, Tesla finds itself involved in a new patent infringement lawsuit, this latest time as a defendant in an action filed by Graphite Charging Company LLC on August 4,...more
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & Inflation Reduction Act Opportunities - Visit our Energy Funding Matrix for a roundup of various clean energy opportunities. We update the matrix on a biweekly basis and welcome any...more
As the federal government faces a potential first-ever default in June without an increase in the debt ceiling, House Republicans last month passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 in a narrow vote of 217-215 with four...more
The Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) is a wide-ranging bill that includes, among other things, significant investments and reforms by the federal government in a variety of different sectors, including manufacturing,...more
House Approves Republican Energy Package - Four Democrats joined with all Republicans to approve, in a 225-204 vote, a massive House energy bill on March 30. While the bill will almost certainly not advance in the Senate,...more
Two decades ago, well before the current electric vehicle (EV) upsurge, hydrogen was a conceptual pillar of the clean energy movement. In his 2003 State of the Union address, then-President Bush said, “A simple chemical...more
The Big Picture - Congressional Overview - American voters delivered a decidedly mixed message to Washington on Tuesday, seemingly handing Republicans narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives and a nominal check...more
On Aug. 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act), which allocates over $369 billion in funding for clean energy, energy-efficiency and other eco-friendly technology (CleanTech)...more