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México publica reformas y actualizaciones en la normativa energética

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México publicó reformas y actualizaciones a diversas leyes y regulaciones energéticas, como se describe a continuación. Simplificación fiscal al régimen fiscal de PEMEX. Ahora PEMEX sólo está obligada a pagar el Derecho...more

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Horizon ESG Regulatory News and Trends - January 2025

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US exits Paris Agreement after submitting Nationally Determined Contributions. In mid-December, the Biden Administration announced it submitted the US target under the Paris Agreement: cutting net carbon emissions by 61 to 66...more

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New Executive Orders Mandate Sweeping Changes to US Energy Policy

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President Donald Trump recently issued three executive orders and a memorandum focused on the energy sector: Unleashing American Energy (EO 14154), Declaring a National Energy Emergency (EO 14159), Unleashing Alaska's...more

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Trump's First 100 Days: Energy

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President-elect Trump has criticized government policies supporting renewable energy and infrastructure and has expressed an intention to repeal or roll back the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will require an act of...more

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Energy Industry Outlook: Navigating Potential Policy Shifts in a Second Trump Administration

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The 2024 election ushers in a renewed focus on “energy independence” under a second Trump administration. Policies emphasizing expanded oil and gas development, regulatory rollbacks, and traditional infrastructure investment...more

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New Decree Regulating the Gas Law Published

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On August 27, 2024, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed five documents at a ceremony to approve the national energy transition policy: (i) revoking Decree 9.928/19, which established the Technical Committee...more

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U.S. Senators Release Long-Awaited Energy Permitting Reform Bill

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On July 22, 2024, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) released a long-awaited energy permitting reform bill, which aims to accelerate the permitting process for critical energy, mineral, and related...more

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Québec Government Introduces Long-Awaited Bill 69 to Modernize Energy Legislation

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After several months of anticipation, on June 6, 2024, the Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy tabled Bill 69 - An Act to ensure the responsible governance of energy resources and to amend various legislative...more

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Implementation Plan to Vietnam’s PDP8 Released

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Following the release of Vietnam’s eighth national power development plan (“PDP8”) in mid-2023, the Prime Minister has now approved the implementation plan to PDP8 under Decision No. 262/QD-TTg (“Decision 262”). As the name...more

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U.S. Lawmakers Urge DOJ to Investigate Oil and Gas Companies

On July 25, 2023, Representative Ted Lieu and 19 other Democratic lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting that the Department of Justice...more

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Swiss Citizens Vote in Favor of New Net Zero Law

On June 18, 2023 Swiss citizens voted in favor of a new climate law intended to promote carbon neutrality by 2050. The Federal Act on Climate Protection Targets, Innovation and Strengthening Energy Security, known as the...more

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California Brings Legislative Muscle To Its Attack on Oil Drilling

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California has passed Senate Bill 1137, which will prohibit drilling of new oil and gas wells and reworking of existing wells in certain areas. Here is SB 1137 in legislativese (analysis comes first, then the text)...more

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House Subcommittee Holds FERC Oversight Hearing on Improving Reliability Through Energy Expansion, Interregional Transmission, and...

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On June 13, 2023, the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security held a hearing on the “Oversight of FERC: Adhering to a Mission of Affordable and Reliable Energy for America.” The hearing...more

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D.C. Circuit Addresses Appeals of Rehearings Denied by Operation of Law

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In its May 26, 2023 opinion in Sierra Club v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit addressed challenges to its jurisdiction to hear appeals of...more

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Climate Litigation Update

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You might recall our posts on litigation by states, counties, and cities blaming a host of calamities, real and imagined, past and future, on Big Oil. The producers tried their best to remove the cases to federal court. In a...more

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Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap: Options for the ECCC Proposal

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Options to cap and cut emissions from the Canadian oil and gas sector were proposed by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in July 2022. Reducing oil and gas sector emissions is necessary for Canada to achieve its...more

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Edmonton District Energy Strategy

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The City of Edmonton (Edmonton) has published a District Energy Strategy. To meet its climate targets, Edmonton aims to reduce emissions from heating and cooling buildings through a “City-wide decarbonized district energy...more

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More Climate News You Don’t Often Hear

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Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. I’ll leave it to those who know more than I....more

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UK Government Publishes Its "British Energy Security Strategy"

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The British Energy Security Strategy ("the Strategy"), published on April 7, 2022, aims to ensure that the United Kingdom has "a flow of energy that is affordable, clean and above all secure." Published against the background...more

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Canada Releases its New 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan

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On March 29, 2022, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, supported by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, tabled Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan describes the existing and new measures...more

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Feds May Need Power To Take State Lands For New Grid

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Ambitions to decarbonize the power sector by 2035 face a number of significant hurdles — the most intractable of which may be the extent of corresponding highvoltage transmission infrastructure necessary to accommodate the...more

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2021 Mexican Constitutional Reform Bill: Proposed Changes for Foreign Investors in the Electricity Sector

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On September 30, 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent the Reform Initiative to the House of Representatives and the United Commission of Constitutional and Energy Matters for review and plenary voting....more

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Who Won and Who Didn’t: The 2021 Texas Legislature and Energy

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Most bills filed in each legislative session fail. For the most part we are thankful for that. But today we summarize a few that survived while you weren’t paying attention. ...more

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Mexico – CRE Fixes Maximum LP Gas Prices after SENER Issues Emergency Guideline

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After a brief review before the Federal Regulatory Improvement Commission (Comisión Nacional de Mejora Regulatoria, “CONAMER”), on July 28, 2021, the Ministry of Energy (Secretaría de Energía, “SENER”) published in the...more

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Mexico - District Judge Suspends Amendment of Hydrocarbons Law That Repealed PEMEX’s Asymmetric Regulation

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On May 31, 2021, Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro of the Second District Court for Administrative Matters, specialized in Economic Competition, Broadcasting and Telecommunications ("District Judge"), suspended the amendment to...more

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