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Department of Energy Issues Policy Memo on Clean Energy Grant Spending Reviews

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In March 2025, the Department of Energy was rumored to be reviewing projects, which were awarded billions of dollars under the Biden Administration. This review reportedly targeted any program or project that had spent less...more

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Further Restrictions on IRA Renewable Energy Tax Credits Included in Draft Bill Passed by House

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On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a new version of H.R. 1, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” that would effectively repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) clean energy tax credits almost...more

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House Bill Accelerates Phaseout of Clean Energy Tax Credits and Restricts Leasing and Transferability

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On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Bill 1, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). This budget reconciliation bill includes significant energy-related provisions that would...more

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Tax plan rolls back energy credits

The House of Representatives narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill along party lines. The proposed bill would terminate or otherwise make significant changes to several of the energy tax credits created or expanded by...more

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Registration and certification updates to Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Act: Requirements for private energy facility and state...

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As discussed in our most recent installment, on July 23, 2024, Senate Bill 571 (the “Amendment”) was signed into law, adding certain private energy facility projects to the purview of the Michigan Prevailing Wage Act which...more

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Amendments to IRA Tax Credits in the House Budget Bill

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On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed (by a vote of 215-214-1) its version of the budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") containing numerous tax reform provisions. Below are our...more

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Redrawing the Map – Energy Provisions in Proposed Budget Bill Seek to Shift the Future of Federal Infrastructure Policy

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On May 22, 2025, the House passed budget reconciliation legislation referred to as “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (the “Bill”). As currently written, the Bill would reshape key aspects of federal energy policy by targeting...more

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Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Department of Energy to submit a comprehensive fuel cycle report, expand enrichment and reprocessing under the Defense Production Act (DPA), and fund reactor restarts and construction through the Loan Programs...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Department of Energy to reform national lab processes and establish a pilot program to approve at least three advanced reactor test sites outside the labs, with operations targeted by July 4, 2026. Requires...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Departments of Defense and Energy to deploy advanced nuclear reactors for critical military and AI infrastructure, starting with operation at a domestic military base by September 30, 2028, and site deployment at...more

Akerman LLP

Trump Tax Bill Passes House: What Clean Energy Stakeholders Need to Know

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Early yesterday morning, the House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s signature "One Big Beautiful Bill," largely aimed at extending the 2017 tax cuts, by a single vote (215-214). The bill includes huge...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Liquefied Natural Gas Export Authorizations Closer After DOE Releases Final Response to Comments on 2024 LNG Export Study

On May 19, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized its 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports (the 2024 Study) through the release of a Response to Comments on the 2024...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Economic and Clean Energy Leadership in New Jersey—FY 2026 Budget Testimony Highlights

Last week, Tim Sullivan, CEO of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), and Christine Guhl-Sadovy, president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), presented their fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget...more

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House Passes 2025 Reconciliation Bill – Further Restricting IRA Tax Benefits

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After an intense 21-hour House Rules Committee markup, early in the morning of May 22, 2025, the House passed H.R. Con. Res. 14, 119th Cong. (2025) (the “Reconciliation Bill”), which makes significant revisions to the...more

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Legislation introduced in Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support U.S. competitiveness against Russia and China for global...

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Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-Del.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy...more

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Amended House Bill Would Eliminate ITC and PTC for New Renewable Projects

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On May 22, 2025, the House passed an amended version of the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” which would make the investment tax credit (ITC) under Section 48E and production tax credit (PTC) under Section 45Y unavailable for...more

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Unpacking the UK-EU Deal: What Lies Ahead for Energy and Carbon Markets?

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The agreement promises to unlock market and investment opportunities and facilitate greater UK-EU collaboration....more

Carlton Fields

Everything (Including Inconsistent Things) All at Once: The Trump Administration’s Initial Steps Toward Permitting Reform

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President Trump came into office pledging to speed up federal environmental permitting, and he has issued a series of executive orders that touch on some aspect of expediting environmental reviews....more

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To Waive or Not to Waive? That Is the 401 Question

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on May 16, 2025, clarified the conditions under which a state waives its Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 water quality certification (WQC) authority. In Village of Morrisville...more

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Changes in Migratory Bird Treaty Act Protections - Impacts on Project Development

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Two recent developments signal important changes to the current administration’s position on incidental take under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”)...more

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Fifteen States Sue the Trump Administration Over “Energy Emergency” Executive Order

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On May 9, 2025, fifteen democratic states (“Plaintiff States”) sued the Trump Administration in Washington District Court, claiming that President Trump’s executive order “Declaring a National Energy Emergency” (“Executive...more

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FERC Accepts SPP’s Revised High Priority Transmission Study Planning Process

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On May 14, 2025, FERC accepted Southwest Power Pool, Inc.’s (“SPP”) proposed revisions to its Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) to modify its high priority transmission study planning process. SPP argued these changes...more

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Department of Energy Announces Initiative to Review the Agency's Federal Awards

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On May 15, 2025, the Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), Chris Wright, issued a memo entitled “Secretarial Policy on Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance” in which Secretary Wright announced DOE’s intent...more

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Amidst Offshore Wind Moratorium, Empire Wind Back on Track

On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed its April 16 stop work order and allowed the $5 billion, 2 GW, Empire Wind project 12 miles south of Long Island to proceed. The move follows an intensive lobbying...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

5 Ways to Mitigate Challenges to the IRA Energy Tax Credits in 2025

This Tax Alert is the second in a series of monthly alerts that I will issue to discuss tax legislation in 2025 and the outlook for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) renewable energy tax incentives. You can find the first Tax...more

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