On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders designed to boost the nuclear power energy industry in the United States. The executive orders recognize that advances in AI and other energy-hungry...more
In a memorandum issued Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump halted federal offshore wind energy leasing and directed federal administrative agencies to cease the issuance and renewal of permits and approvals for onshore and...more
As discussed in detail in a previous McGuireWoods alert, on May 1, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13920 (EO) prohibiting the acquisition, importation, transfer or installation of certain equipment tied to a...more
On May 4, 2020, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department of Commerce will review imports of grain-oriented electrical steel laminations for transformer components under Section 232 of the Trade...more
On May 1, 2020, President Trump declared a state of emergency with respect to the threat to the U.S. bulk-power system and issued the “Executive Order on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System.” This order prohibits the...more
U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 22 issued new import tariffs on foreign-made solar cells and modules. While the tariffs may briefly disrupt the U.S. solar industry, the announcement provides much-anticipated certainty for...more
The fate of the U.S. solar industry is now (at least somewhat) in the hands of President Donald Trump. By Jan. 12, 2018, he must decide what action, if any, to take against overseas solar panel manufacturers whose imports are...more