ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 19 - Power Struggles: Federal vs. State Authority in Energy Law
What's the Buzz in the Battery World With Roger Miksad, BCI – Battery + Storage Podcast
Episode 365 -- Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
Episode 364 -- Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
Cobalt, Lithium, and the Quest for Sustainable Batteries With John Busbee, Xerion — Battery + Storage Podcast
Emerging Risks & Opportunities: Navigating Environmental & Sustainability Regulations During the First 100 Days
Hilary Preston, Vice Chair at Vinson & Elkins, Discusses Energy Innovation: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Portfolio
2025 Oil Market Outlook: What OPEC, U.S. Shale, and Natural Gas Trends Mean for the Year Ahead
A Thermal Storage Revolution With Nis Benn, Hyme Energy — Battery + Storage Podcast
Greenhushing: What It Is & Why It Matters
Synergy in Energy: The New Troutman Pepper Locke - Energy Law Insights
Navigating the Inflation Reduction Act: Insights on Brownfield Energy Community Credits - Energy Law Insights
Vinson & Elkins Sean Moran and Lauren Collins Discuss the Evolution of Tax Credits
OG Talks: Good Energy and Navigating Transactions
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 12: Powering Economic Development with Andrew Tate of Duke Energy
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 11: The EV Industry in Alabama with Mike Oatridge of Alabama Mobility and Power Center
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 23: Shaping Georgia’s Energy Landscape: Insights From Commissioner Tim Echols
Business Better Podcast Episode: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – Insights Three Years Later
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Harnessing Technology in Litigation: Insights from Troutman Pepper eMerge - Energy Law Insights
Thought you’d heard the last of force majuere cases arising from Winter Storm Uri? Think again. In Marathon Oil Company v. Koch Services LLC. the question was how to measure damages suffered by Koch for Marathon’s...more
Under Van Dyke, deeds with double-fraction royalty reservations referencing “1/8” are presumed to reserve a floating royalty interest unless clearly contradicted. Defenses like waiver, ratification, and limitations cannot...more
Directs the Secretary of Energy to rescind or amend specific appliance efficiency regulations, suspend enforcement of those provisions and related statutory standards. It also instructs the Secretary and the Director of...more
As we have noted previously, a number of states have enacted legislation and/or brought claims against fossil fuel producers seeking payment for damages resulting from climate change. Legislative efforts include New York...more
Performance guarantees and performance liquidated damages (PLDs) are an essential element of most engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts, especially those related to solar and biogas projects; they make...more
In 2020, following a bitter eight-year fight, Williams Corporation canceled its plans to build the Constitution Pipeline. The pipeline would have carried natural gas from the gas fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania...more
The global rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the proliferation of data centers, urbanization in emerging markets, and increasingly widespread electrification are all major factors driving the insatiable demand for...more
On April 30, 2025, the Government of British Columbia tabled Bill 14, the Renewable Energy Projects (Streamlined Permitting) Act (Bill). The Bill would accelerate the permitting of renewable energy projects in the province...more
Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a series of federal lawsuits against four states—New York, Vermont, Michigan and Hawaii—alleging that recent legislative and enforcement efforts to hold fossil fuel companies...more
The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of...more
Upstream oil and gas producers and oilfield service companies are facing new uncertainties from recently imposed federal tariffs. In early 2025, the US expanded tariffs on a broad range of imports, suddenly increasing costs...more
The U.S. Department of Justice filed lawsuits against New York and several other states, challenging their newly enacted state Superfund laws (Superfund lawsuits). The laws aim to address the environmental damages attributed...more
California’s drive toward a net-zero carbon economy by 2045 is sparking innovative solutions to harmonize environmental conservation with infrastructure development. Assembly Bill (AB) 550, sponsored by Assembly Member...more
Key Takeaways The Maryland General Assembly concluded its spring 2025 legislative session on April 7, 2025. The General Assembly spent a considerable portion of the session attending to the State’s pressing budget issues. As...more
With plans for energy transition infrastructure projects well underway, their successful delivery demands that parties swiftly get to grips with the important issues when negotiating, administering and managing claims and...more
The Treasury Department has taken initial steps to implement the Trump administration’s “total elimination” policy directed at certain drug trafficking cartels. Most recently, on May 1, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement...more
Microgeneration has always been a cornerstone of the German energy supply, due to its diversified production and manufacturing industry, which is spread out over the country....more
On April 23, 2025, the UK Government published the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the “Amending Regulations”), which took effect on April 24, 2025. The Amending Regulations amend the Russia...more
When it comes to changes roiling the federally supported research landscape, April offered no letup from the first three months of the year; if anything, the pace and magnitude increased. In one instance, an agency—the HHS...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Pinewood Wastewater, LLC (“Pinewood”) entered into an April 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
A group of 24 Republican AGs, along with several trade associations, sued Vermont over the state’s Climate Superfund Act, which authorizes the state to levy billions of dollars in fines on fossil fuel companies for alleged...more
On Monday, May 4, 2025, a coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia filed suit in Massachusetts District Court over the Trump administration’s efforts to block federal permits for all offshore wind development. The...more
Among other energy-related actions within the first two weeks of April 2025, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on April 8 and 9 that have the potential to result in significant changes to US federal, state,...more
On April 29, 2025, FERC partially granted rehearing in the case of Cometa Energia, S.A. de C.V. (“Saavi”) against the California Independent System Operator Corporation (“CAISO”), finding a provision of CAISO’s Business...more