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Navigating Clean Hydrogen Tax Credits: Insights and Implications - Energy Law Insights
COP16 en Colombia: El Futuro de la Biodiversidad
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Wiley's 10 Key Trade Developments: U.S.-EU Global Arrangement
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), which was passed on July 4, 2025, included several changes to the energy tax credits introduced and expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”). The key changes to...more
Volume 9, Issue 7 Welcome to our seventh issue of Currents 2025. In this issue, we look at the changing tides for coal, the new NEPA procedures, West Virginians desire for lower cost energy, southwestern Virginia's newest...more
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (“ACEEE”) released a policy brief titled: Repurposing EV Batteries for Second-Life Stationary Storage: Market Landscape and Key Challenges (“Policy Brief”)....more
Metroplan announces on June 27th that its Board of Directors had approved an Energy and Environment Innovation Comprehensive Action Plan (“Plan”). Metroplan states that the plan will be released for public comment starting...more
The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 requires the UK government to set five-year carbon budgets that cap total greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions. The UK is currently operating within its Fourth Carbon Budget, which covers the...more
Welcome to our fourth issue of Currents 2025. We are covering a multitude of issues in this edition, but we want to pass along a couple of announcements first. Again, thank you for reading! The Data Center Boom...more
Welcome to our third issue of Currents 2025. Again, thank you for reading! Power Plays and Fueling Tension: Trade War Ripples Through North American Energy Markets - President Trump's pursuit of U.S. energy dominance,...more
The growing demands of data centers are positioning renewables as essential, with wind, solar, and storage offering the most flexible and cost-effective solution to grid instability. This week, the New York Times reported...more
As we enter 2025 amid the devastating Los Angeles fires and with a new presidential administration, we continue our series of yearly reviews of the most significant governmental actions taken by the state of California...more
During the first week of his second term, President Trump issued a slew of executive orders (EOs) and presidential memorandums that directly target environmental and climate initiatives addressed by previous administrations....more
Following climate laws passed in 2021 and 2022, Massachusetts has again enacted a new piece of climate-focused legislation. On November 21, 2024, Governor Maura Healey signed into law “An Act Promoting a Clean Energy Grid,...more
Welcome to our first Issue of Currents 2025, our energy e-newsletter. While our energy practice is constantly changing and evolving, we too have expanded our focus for 2025 with some new editors involved with this...more
Let’s face it petrolheads, one of your reasons for not joining the move to electric vehicles is your range anxiety; the risk of your vehicle running out of charge and the need to find somewhere convenient to re-charge it....more
Update and Background - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA, et al, recently declined to review whether the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) exceeded its authority by granting a...more
With a renewed focus on domestic energy production and regulatory reform, the incoming administration signals significant shifts in U.S. energy and climate priorities. The incoming Trump Administration will prioritize...more
In this Issue: Permitting Reform, the Supreme Court, EV’s, and Climate Week 2024 - After nearly a decade as New York State’s environmental chief, I recently joined Foley Hoag to help the firm’s clients emerge as global...more
In June 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS announced that U.S. consumers have saved more than $1 billion in upfront costs on their purchase of more than 150,000 clean vehicles since January 1, 2024, thanks to...more
On 19 July 2024, the European Union (EU) and the Republic of Serbia (“Serbia”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) creating a strategic partnership on sustainable raw materials, battery value chains and electric...more
Two recent studies show that, by the end of 2023, United States carbon emissions will decrease, despite an expansion in the overall economy of about 2.5 percent. That is, according to the United States Energy Information...more
The United States and the United Kingdom announced a partnership to address a range of global challenges, including the transition to clean energy. As part of the partnership, announced on June 9, 2023, the two countries...more
This week, the Minnesota Legislature passed and delivered to the governor for signature HF2310, an energy policy omnibus bill that provides $216 million for energy initiatives in the state. The legislation includes...more
This is the second in a series of Quarles & Brady client alerts concerning the approximately 1,000-page Illinois omnibus energy legislation commonly referred to as The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). ...more
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law today not only makes critical investments in our core infrastructure, it creates several new programs to support the increasing electrification of the transportation...more
The American Jobs Plan - On March 31, 2021, the Biden administration released the American Jobs Plan (the “Infrastructure Plan”), which is a proposal that, if ultimately enacted, aims to modernize outdated infrastructure,...more
The Biden-Harris administration announced its American Jobs Plan, a legislative framework laying out an ambitious $2 trillion investment in physical and human infrastructure, on March 31. The bulk of the proposed spending is...more