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Trump's Second Term: What's Ahead for Eight Key Sectors?

Venable LLP on 11/8/2024

During a campaign season that saw an incumbent president bow out of his own re-election bid and assassination attempts against his challenger, substantive policy debates were sometimes obscured by the drama. ...more

Mexican Administration Offers Boost to Clean Energy, Infrastructure Under New Leadership

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/10/2024

Claudia Sheinbaum made history last week as Mexico’s first female president and laid out her vision to promote clean energy and increase investment in the infrastructure sector. In contrast to the previous administration,...more

EV Roundup - September 2024

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel on 9/10/2024

In June 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS announced that U.S. consumers have saved more than $1 billion in upfront costs on their purchase of more than 150,000 clean vehicles since January 1, 2024, thanks to...more

Lithium for Batteries from Geothermal Brine

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 6/12/2024

If all goes as planned, solar, wind and other clean energy technologies will help us abandon carbon emissions for good. But many green power sources perform their best only when nature cooperates, so an important (and...more

Battery Technologies: Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel on 6/6/2024

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

Tax based finance leasing: a forgotten tool for green finance in the UK?

A&O Shearman on 12/15/2023

Decarbonisation is the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Decarbonisation requires significant investment in green technologies, such as renewable energy, energy...more

2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/14/2023

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD)’s 2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report points to a new phase in the multi-generational journey to Net Zero. While 56% of our respondents are deepening their focus on their transition...more

Plugged In: An EV Newsletter Volume 1 No. 7

Dickinson Wright on 9/29/2023

The rapid proliferation of EV charging stations on commercial properties – in apartment complexes, at offices, hotels and shopping centers, entertainment venues and recreational sites, public parking lots and even hospitals...more

Renewable Energy Update - 7.06.23

Allen Matkins on 7/7/2023

Jobs in the U.S. energy industry rose 3.8% last year, faster than overall employment growth and led by work in clean energy, the Department of Energy said last Wednesday. According to the U.S. Energy and Employment Report,...more

Renewable Energy Update - 5.05.23 #1

Allen Matkins on 5/8/2023

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal President Joe Biden's suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations, a measure aimed at supporting the small domestic manufacturing industry....more

Energy & Sustainability M&A Activity — September 2022

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 9/6/2022

Recent M&A Activity: July 29, 2022: Clean Energy Associates, a provider of quality assurance and independent engineering solutions intended for solar energy and energy storage sectors, reached a definitive agreement to be...more

Significant New Clean Energy and Climate Act becomes law in Massachusetts

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/12/2022

On August 11, 2022, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law An Act driving climate policy forward. After months of heavy legislative activity involving a wide range of stakeholders in the clean energy and...more

The Inflation Reduction Act: Summary of the Budget Reconciliation Act

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/8/2022

The U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, 2022, passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). This comprehensive legislation is the result of many months of negotiations among Democrats to advance some of President Joe Biden's highest...more

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: The energy tax provisions you need to know about

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 8/4/2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act) runs 725 pages and includes numerous energy tax provisions aimed at enhancing US energy security. The Act, if enacted, would extend and expand the renewable and alternative...more

House Passes Build Back Better Act

Roetzel & Andress on 11/22/2021

Early Friday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives approved President Biden’s sweeping social and climate spending proposal known as the Build Back Better Framework. Key provisions in the approximately $2 trillion bill...more

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Revolutionize the Energy Industry

Morgan Lewis on 11/16/2021

President Joseph Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the Act) on November 15, 2021, which allocates $550 billion in new spending over the next five years to improve US infrastructure,...more

Illinois Enacts Comprehensive Climate and Clean Energy Legislation

Mayer Brown on 10/19/2021

In September, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the omnibus, 956-page climate and energy legislative package titled the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (the “CEJA”). The CEJA has an immediate effective date. Following years...more

China’s pursuit of mining & metals industry transition

White & Case LLP on 9/17/2021

China's mining sector is taking active measures to pursue industry transition and achieve a low-carbon production plan. China's decarbonization and quest for green metals - China has set a national target to achieve carbon...more

Hydrogen Rising: Plugging Away: Plug Power Advances the Hydrogen Ecosystem in Europe

K&L Gates LLP on 7/29/2021

Hydrogen Rising co-hosts David Wochner and Sandra Safro spend time with Ms. Corine Dubruel, the Vice President for Public Affairs of Plug Power Europe. Corine discusses the incredible growth of hydrogen across multiple...more

2020 Post-Election Analysis: Issue by Issue

Bracewell LLP on 11/17/2020

FIRST 100 DAYS - As President-elect Biden stands poised to assume the office he has aspired to for the past three decades, he inherits a national crisis not unlike the one he stepped into as vice president nearly 12 years...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 40, October 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/26/2020

West Virginia Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Horizontal Drilling Taxation Case Involving Antero - "At issue is a consumer sales tax assessment of around $1 million the West Virginia State Tax Department has levied on...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 38, October 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/13/2020

Noble Energy Shareholders OK $4.1B Sale to Chevron - "The addition of Noble will boost Chevron's U.S. shale oil holdings, making it the No. 2 producer behind EOG Resources, according to data from Rystad Energy." Why this is...more

The Emerging Hydrogen Economy

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/18/2019

The worldwide demand for energy continues to grow at a substantial rate. The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2050, global energy demand will be between 30 to 40 percent higher than today, even on the assumption that the...more

Renewable Energy Update - October 2019 #4

Allen Matkins on 10/25/2019

Focus - Renewable energy to expand by 50% in next five years - The Guardian – October 21 - Global supplies of renewable electricity are growing faster than expected and could expand by 50 percent in the next five years,...more

Renewable Energy Update - May 2019

Allen Matkins on 5/3/2019

Focus - sPower and MCE complete largest operational CCA solar project in California - PV-Tech - April 29 - sPower and MCE have commenced commercial operations at the 130-megawatt Antelope Expansion 2 PV project in...more

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