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Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report – 7.18.2024

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Gasoline Trading Firms to Pay $50 Million to Settle...more

Gray Reed

Oil Fraud Defendant Tries to Evade SEC Complaint

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We haven’t presented 2023’s Bad Guys in Energy, but we have SEC v. Bowen, Baker, Cannon Operating and others as an example of garden variety securities fraud. The opinion addresses a defendant’s effort to defeat the SEC’s...more

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ESG Litigation Update: Hawaii Supreme Court Allows Petroleum Industry Climate Case to Proceed

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A recent Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii decision permitted climate-related claims against major petroleum and gas companies to proceed toward trial. The decision in City and County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP allows...more

Oliva Gibbs LLP

ESG Deception or Overreach – Understanding the Landscape of Greenwashing Litigation

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In addition to the risk of regulatory enforcement actions and penalties, the court system continues to be used as a battleground for climate issues through litigation against oil and gas (“O&G”) companies....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Sub-Zero Oil Isn’t Snake Oil: A First Ruling on Losses From Crude’s Dip Into Negative Prices

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In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, global financial markets got their first experience of negative interest rates, something classical economists had long thought to be unworkable if not impossible. On April 20,...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.11.2019 | Top Story: US and China Hint at Tariff Delay to Help Ease Phase One Negotiations

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U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are “laying the groundwork for a delay of a fresh round of tariffs set to kick in on Dec. 15” as the countries continue to work through how a Chinese promise to make huge ag purchases from...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - April 2018

Bobby D. Fentress, et al, vs. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al - "This is an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case alleging a breach of fiduciary duties in the management of a defined contribution plan. Defendants'...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - February 2017

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Environmental and Policy Focus - Trump Administration proposes rule requiring deletion of two regulations for every new regulation adopted - Washington Post - Jan 30 - President Trump signed an order...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Shell Pays Big for Double Dipping with the UST Fund

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Last week, the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced that it permanently banned 100 of Shell Oil Company’s underground storage tank (UST) claims from the California UST Cleanup Fund...more

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