Climate Change, Power Grid, Coal Industry

Germany’s Incoming Government and Its Impacts on Future Energy and Decarbonization Policies in Europe

King & Spalding on 4/14/2025

Talks (Koalitionsverhandlungen) between the centre-right CDU/CSU and centre-left SPD to form a new German government concluded in a coalition agreement reached on April 9, 2025. In our previous coverage of the German...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - January 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 1/11/2020

Energy Infrastructure Attacks are ‘Probable’: Oil Traders Fear Supply Disruptions in the Middle East - "A dramatic escalation of geopolitical tensions will most likely result in an unplanned oil supply shortage in the...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - March 2019 #2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/16/2019

West Virginia Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in EQT Doddridge County Trespassing Case - "The state Supreme Court will decide if a lower court judge got it right when he ruled natural gas production company EQT trespassed...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - June 2018

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/11/2018

State Files Motion to Dismiss Federal Lawsuit by EQT - "Lawyers representing the Secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the natural gas company EQT over a...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - October 2017 #4

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/28/2017

EPA to Restrict Scientific Advisers Who Get Agency Grants - "Pruitt did not say how restrictive the policy would be. But it has the potential to greatly reduce the body of expert scientists who could serve on the boards...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - August 2017#2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/2/2017

This is our second installment of Currents - our weekly energy news e-blast where we deliver the week's top energy news stories and our synopsis of why those stories are important from a legal perspective. - Appeals Court...more