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Legislature Expands the MPCA’s Enforcement Authorities

In the 2024 Minnesota legislative session, the Legislature granted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) expanded enforcement powers (Enforcement Legislation or Legislation), including clarified powers to shut down...more

Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Reform

Governor Tim Walz recently signed the Minnesota Energy Infrastructure Permitting Act and amendments to the certificate of need requirements (Permitting Act). The Permitting Act includes significant reforms to streamline...more

Energy Law: Month in Review - April 2024

Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. ...more

Energy Law: Month in Review - March/April 2024

Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. Please reach out to any of the authors, listed above, to discuss these issues....more

Energy Law: Week in Review - March 2024 #2

Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Week in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments from the previous week....more

Energy Law: Week in Review - March 2024

Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Week in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments from the previous week....more

Changes to Lobbying Disclosure in Minnesota

Effective January 1, 2024, Minnesota’s lobbying and public disclosure law will vastly increase the number of political jurisdictions that trigger disclosure requirements in a manner that will increase the number of persons...more

Uncertainty Looms: Minneapolis's 2040 Plan Hits (Another) Judicial Roadblock

The month of September was a bad month for the City of Minneapolis’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan (2040 Comp Plan). On September 5, 2023, Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District (Hennepin County) released a decision temporarily...more

D.C. Circuit Upholds FERC’s Broadview of PURPA

On February 14, 2023, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld FERC’s broad definition of qualifying facilities (“QF”) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (“PURPA”). In Broadview Solar, LLC, 174 FERC ¶...more

FERC Approves Multi-Million Dollar Settlement Over Inaccurate Reporting of Lobbying Expenses

On December 30, 2022, FERC issued an order approving a stipulation between the Office of Enforcement and FirstEnergy Corp., which required FirstEnergy to pay a civil penalty and submit to compliance monitoring because...more

FERC Increases Regulatory Oversight of Investors With Officers or Directors on Public Utilities’ Boards

​​​​​​​The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) recently ruled that an investor is deemed an affiliate of a public utility if the investor has a seat on the public utility’s board of directors. This rule indicates...more

Locked Out: Zillow’s Failure to Provide Insurer Timely Notice of DMCA Takedown Notice Precludes Coverage Under a Claims-Made...

Last month the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington held that a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Takedown Notice triggered a policyholder’s obligation to notify its claims-made insurer....more

EPA and Corps Final Clean Water Rule’s Potential Impacts on Farming

The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) published a final rule on May 27, 2015, that purports to clarify the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act...more

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