Polsinelli Podcast - Hot Energy Trends in 2014 by Polsinelli
The potential for repurposing old oil and gas wells for renewable energy raises a number of complex legal issues in Pennsylvania. In recent years, the federal government has been exploring renewable energy generation by using...more
Real-time pricing, new rates, and enabling technologies target demand flexibility to ease California outages Bullet Utility Dive – September 13 Growing California power system reliability threats made vivid by early September...more
The UAE Gets Green Light to Operate the Arab World’s First Nuclear Power Plant - "The project, which national officials describe as a strategic and economic imperative for the UAE, is more than a decade in the making and...more
Russian, Colombian Competition Continuing to Slow U.S. Thermal Coal Exports - "'Central Appalachian and Northern Appalachian exports remain out of the money for shipment to Europe and Illinois Basin coal has significant...more
Big Oil’s Climate Change Reckoning Finally Arrives in Court - "New York’s $1.6 billion lawsuit arose from a national effort to hold Big Oil responsible for global warming." Why this is important: The most important...more
Crisis in Middle East Should Remind Us of the Importance of Fracking - "Oil prices are likely to spike in the short-term aftermath of the attack on Saudi Arabia, but, as Clifford Krauss and Stanley Reed of The New York...more
Iraq Would Face 'Wrath of U.S.' if Oil Pipeline Projects with Iran Go Ahead - "Washington would do anything to prevent an Iran-Iraq oil pipeline from ever being built, even if the Europeans were in favor, policy...more
Trump Eyes Action to Limit States' Powers to Block Pipelines - "The Trump administration is considering taking steps to limit the ability of states to block interstate gas pipelines and other energy projects, according to...more
More, Deeper Wells Planned for Existing Marcellus Site in Washington Township - "CNX has applied to the state Department of Environmental Protection for a permit to drill four new wells to tap natural gas from Utica shale...more
Revised Definition of "Waters of the United States" - Proposed Rule - "The agencies' proposal is the second step in a two-step process to review and revise the definition of 'waters of the United States' consistent with...more
U.S. Global Change Research Program - Fourth National Climate Assessment - "Impacts, risks and adaptation in the United States Report-in-Brief" Why this is important: The assessment posits the U.S. will lose 10 percent of...more
U.S. to Give Eight Nations Oil Waivers Under Iran Sanctions, Official Says - "The U.S. has agreed to let eight countries - including Japan, India and South Korea - keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on the...more
Coal - Rio exits coal industry in $4B worth of deals - Rio Tinto Group has agreed to several deals worth over $4 billion to sell all of its remaining coal assets, with a $1.7 billion cash sale of coal assets to...more
Focus - California could get more solar, geothermal power from Imperial Valley following lawsuit - The Desert Sun - Mar 7 As Governor Jerry Brown looks to neighboring states for cheap sources of clean energy, a legal...more
Northeast Could be Second U.S. Petrochemical Hub - "'While the region with its ample and reliable supply of ethane is primed for the emergence as a second major petrochemical manufacturing hub in the United States, it...more
Renewable Energy Focus - California needs to invest $5B in transmission to support renewables goals - Utility Dive - Nov 2 - Staff of the California Energy Commission have completed an assessment of the...more
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. The Federal Internal Revenue Code provides a business income tax credit in the amount of $0.023 (2015) per kilowatt hour of electricity produced from qualifying renewable resources during a ten-year...more
Renewable Energy Focus: Obama budget aims to make solar and wind incentives permanent - PV Magazine - Feb 2: President Obama just unveiled a $3.99 trillion budget for 2016 that asks Congress for a permanent...more
Whether you are operating a coal mine or looking to invest in Wind Energy, the utility and energy industries are always evolving. Polsinelli's Energy law practice is one of the leading practices of its kind in the Midwest....more
Renewable Energy Focus - Renewables outpace coal, oil, and nuclear energy in U.S.: REVE Wind News - Jul 20 -- Renewable energy sources, including wind energy, solar power, biomass, hydro, and geothermal energy,...more