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Distributed Generation 2.0: What You Need to Know
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The Nexus of Transmission and Storage: A Conversation With American Transmission Company GC and Executive VP Bill Marsan - Battery + Storage Podcast
JONES DAY TALKS®: Energy Derivatives and Regulatory Enforcement by the CFTC and FERC
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FERC: A Discussion on its Mission, Market Manipulation Investigations, and Common Violations
How Trump's Infrastructure Plan Impacts the Energy Industry
In SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court considered whether the Seventh Amendment permits the SEC “to compel respondents to defend themselves before the agency rather than before a jury in federal court.” The Court held that the...more
Now that the dust has settled following the Supreme Court’s overhaul of administrative law through three late-term decisions, Akin litigators and policy advisors offer the most significant takeaways for businesses and...more
On June 27, 2024, in SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a respondent to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) securities fraud action seeking civil monetary penalties is entitled to a...more
The United States Supreme Court struck another major blow to the Securities Exchange Commission’s enforcement arsenal, finding that its oft-used practice of imposing monetary penalties in its in-house administrative...more
On June 27, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the closely-watched SEC v. Jarkesy, holding that the SEC could no longer seek civil monetary penalties for fraud in its in-house courts consistent with the Seventh...more
Securities and Exchange Commission. Cryptocurrency regulation. On April 23, 2024, two groups representing the cryptocurrency industry sued SEC over its expanded dealer definition announced earlier this year. The Blockchain...more
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
Good morning! 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
Federal regulators have cracked down on the use of texts messages and messaging platforms for business communications, using their broad authority to root out record retention violations, resulting in significant fines and...more
This is a brief roundup of recent federal court environmental and regulatory law decisions from the federal courts over the past few months, including the much anticipated ruling in Sackett, et ux., v, Environmental...more
On April 14, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that is expected to result in historic changes to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) use of in-house administrative law judges (ALJs). In Axon...more
Cryptocurrency has entered that stage, common to newly traded assets, where volume matters. When that happens, traders in a new frontier seem unable to resist the temptation to engage in wash trades to build their book and...more
The Biden Administration released its Fall 2022 regulatory agenda (Regulatory Agenda) on Jan. 4, 2023. In it, the administration outlined regulations aimed at cybersecurity requirements for government contractors, the...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued orders on September 27, 2022, filing and settling charges against various affiliates of financial institutions for failing to maintain, preserve, or produce records that...more
On June 6, 2022, United States Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) released the first major bipartisan bill intended to regulate digital assets. Interestingly, the bill calls for additional...more
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Cynthia Lummis (R- WY) introduced new proposed legislation on June 7, 2022, which would classify the vast majority of digital assets as commodities, and empower the Commodities Futures...more
Earlier this week, U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced the first comprehensive legislation to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets to promote innovation, delineate...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House is in a committee work period, and the Senate is in session this week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is planning a procedural vote this week...more
The November 15, 2021, deadline is approaching to submit comments to the Treasury Department’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) on its Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on FIO’s future work concerning the insurance...more
California water managers vote to cut off farmers as statewide drought intensifies - Courthouse News Service – June 15 - Citing severe drought conditions, the California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday sent...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - FTC Submits Comment on the Preliminary Draft for the NIST Privacy Framework - On October 24, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that...more
Uneconomic trading in regulated markets is a key focus of market regulators such as the DOJ, SEC, CFTC and FERC. Traders at times, for example, take different positions in select markets which can result in losses in one...more
Before initializations were clever, there was PUHCA, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. The Securities and Exchange Commission administered the PUHCA mostly by reviewing applications by registered public holding...more
In 2018, privacy and data security crossed a number of thresholds. In the public mind, through high-profile data breaches and revelations about unexpected uses of personal information, questions of privacy became much more...more