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Mayer Brown

Unleashing American Energy: Deregulatory Executive Orders

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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

Kilpatrick

Key Takeaways - The Current State of Play of Carbon Credit Markets

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John Pierce and Siegmar Pohl of Kilpatrick recently presented a portion of “The Current State of Play of Carbon Credit Markets” hosted online by the Federal Bar Association and myLawCLE. They focused on the associated risks...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFTC, DOJ and SEC Announce First Coordinated Action Aimed at Voluntary Carbon Market Fraud

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On Oct. 2, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced parallel actions against CQC Impact Investors LLC (CQC or the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Companies Face Increased Criminal Enforcement Risk From Aging Infrastructure-Related Disasters

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Utilities and energy companies can implement strategies to mitigate risks from more frequent environmental disasters and infrastructure failures. In the early morning of June 11, 2023, a tanker truck carrying gasoline up...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International Legal Highlights Korea | July 2022

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UNDERSTANDING CONSTRUCTION RISK ON INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS - Private investment in infrastructure, especially renewable energy projects, is surging across the globe. In fact, total new investment in renewable energy hit...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

DOJ’s Environmental Justice Enforcement Strategy and Restoration of Settlement Projects: 5 Things You Should Know

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a Comprehensive Environmental Justice Enforcement Strategy (“the Strategy”) on May 5, 2022, pursuant to President Biden’s January 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at...more

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Biden Administration DOJ Signals Shift In Environmental Enforcement Revoking Prior Policies

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On February 5, 2021, the acting head of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) division that brings environmental enforcement cases issued a memo revoking nine policy directives from the prior administration, including...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - January 2021 #2

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DOI unveils plan to weaken protections for millions of acres of California desert - Reuters – January 13 - The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Wednesday proposed weakening environmental protections for millions...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Tax Law Alert: US Court of Federal Claims Releases Anticipated Opinions in Developer Fee Cases

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The United States Court of Federal Claims recently released two anticipated opinions, Bishop Hill Energy, LLC v. United States and California Ridge Wind Energy, LLC v. United States, which were issued under seal on January 7,...more

The Volkov Law Group

The FCPA Week That Was — Seven Individuals Charged for FCPA Violations

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To all the “nattering nabobs of negativity” concerning FCPA enforcement, the US Justice Department responded with a resounding message – not only is FCPA enforcement here to stay, but individual violators are on DOJ’s radar...more

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