JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The looming energy crisis in Europe is attributable to several factors such as the depletion of domestic gas resources and suboptimal weather conditions affecting renewable energy sources. The EU ministers met on September 30 to find possible solutions for the EU energy shortage.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday signed an executive order banning the sale of Russian oil exports for five months to countries who implemented a fuel and energy price cap in response to the war in Ukraine. ” The price cap was also designed to support global energy markets and minimize economic fallout from the war.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 6, 2022

Cryptomining generally requires substantial energy to power computer systems due to its need to solve complex mathematical problems. ” This cryptomining bill will implement a two-year moratorium on permit issuance and renewal for facilities that use carbon-based fuel to provide energy for cryptomining operations.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Explore the thriving legal landscape in Texas with Lateral Link’s Senior Director, Tori Keith, as she unveils invaluable insights into seizing career opportunities in the booming energy sector. The post Unlocking Legal Careers In Texas: Navigating Opportunities In The Booming Energy Sector appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2022

An energy company was sentenced Tuesday in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). ESI Energy Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, which is owned by NextEra Energy Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects. But that is only if all of the bonus criteria are met and – in one instance – an application to the Department of Energy and the IRS is successful. This year, 2023, marks the first tax year in U.S. And there’s the rub.

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Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

A proposed class of investors has hit a purported Chicago green energy outfit and its executives with a federal suit claiming they used promises of extravagant returns to get the plaintiffs to invest but never created any energy or produced the returns they promised.

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Law 360

APRIL 12, 2024

An investor that has been trying for nearly a year to nominate an alternative slate of directors for the board of an offshore renewable energy company sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Thursday, alleging the company and its management have been scheming to prevent a fair stockholder vote.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The post This Biglaw Firm Is On Top Of The Energy Deal Leaderboard appeared first on Above the Law. Texas growth is paying off.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An investor of blank-check company Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. has sued several of its current and former directors and controllers, alleging the defendants protected their buy-ins while leaving public investors to suffer losses after the company merged with an energy storage company.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2021

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed a major energy bill that aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 2030. On the bill, Governor Cooper stated : Today, North Carolina moves strongly into a reliable and affordable clean energy future.

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JURIST

MAY 30, 2023

The Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) urged Ukraine and Russia to adhere to five principles to prevent nuclear catastrophe during a briefing Tuesday to the UN Security Council regarding the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).

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Law 360

APRIL 25, 2023

The recently terminated CEO of Bang Energy drink maker Vital Pharmaceuticals told a Florida bankruptcy court on Tuesday that he should be able to keep control of the official Bang Energy CEO social media accounts — and their combined nearly 2 million followers — because the majority of their content is personal.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The former CEO of Texas energy company Viking Energy Group Inc. was slapped with a proposed shareholder class action claiming he pursued a merger with a "financially troubled" shell company in order to provide himself with an exponentially greater claim of Viking's economic value.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

Renewable energy company Origis USA Inc. has escaped a suit by former shareholders after a New York federal judge concluded that the plaintiffs failed to show that the company was privy to an alleged scheme by its now-former CEO to induce them to sell their stakes for considerably less than the $1.4 billion they were later sold for.

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Law 360

MARCH 18, 2024

A former president of a Texas energy company has pled guilty to fraudulently trading natural gas futures contracts and receiving $5.5 million in illegal kickbacks for the associated trades, the U.S. Department of Justice has said.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Circuit Rejects Oil Company Attempt to Remove District’s Climate Suit to Federal Court; Yet another federal circuit court of appeals rejects energy company removal claims”: Jonathan H. “D.C. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Energy Policy & Conservation Act Following Berkeley’s 2019 gas prohibition ordinance, a trade group representing members “interested in opening a new restaurant or in relocating a restaurant to a new building in Berkeley,” brought suit against the city. Berkeley : Berkeley’s Ordinance Preempted by U.S. Under EPCA, the U.S.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

An energy trading firm and its owner say a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's suit accusing them of violating a previous commission order by manipulating the crude oil market should be dismissed because the complaint fails to explain how the firm's trading activity is illegitimate.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 11, 2023

General Electric wind turbine patent dispute, a Massachusetts federal court offers a cautionary tale against willful infringement, and highlights the balance between innovation, law and ethics, as legal battles like this become more frequent in the renewable energy sector, say John Powell and Andrew Siuta at Sunstein.

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2023

David Searle, the former acting head of legal at Tesla, has taken a position as executive vice president and general counsel at solar company Sunnova Energy International Inc. in Houston.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A fresh wave of oil and gas industry consolidation, stiff macroeconomic headwinds for renewable energy development and the Inflation Reduction Act's growing influence are just some of the highlights of what's been an eventful 2023 for energy sector deal makers.

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Law 360

AUGUST 19, 2022

Clean energy projects' access to existing and new energy tax credits is expected to go beyond the traditional tax equity financing with new ways to monetize the refunds under a sweeping new law that aims to tackle climate change.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. The resource bank is part of the work of the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI). However, misinformation sometimes leads those impacts to be misunderstood or exaggerated.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SunCoke Energy Inc. has announced that it is promoting its chief legal officer to president and appointing her to the company's board of directors, effective Jan.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2023

Bang Energy drink maker Vital Pharmaceuticals on Thursday urged a Florida federal bankruptcy judge to prevent its former CEO from using social media accounts tied to the company, saying his postings are jeopardizing a potential sale of the company's assets in its Chapter 11 case.

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Law 360

JANUARY 3, 2024

energy industry group. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has strengthened its financial services department and private equity practice in Houston with a partner who came aboard from Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she jointly led its U.S.

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Above The Law

MARCH 8, 2023

The post Latest Dominion Doc Dump Shows Big Mens Rea Energy At Fox appeared first on Above the Law. Don't ya hate it when your group chats leak?

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Law 360

JULY 5, 2023

Houston-based energy company Cokinos Energy LLC claims its broker at Herbert J. failed to follow instructions for a natural gas futures transaction, with the resulting trade causing it to lose $3.9

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service announced the launch of a tool Friday that's intended to simplify the process that lets businesses and other entities receive certain manufacturing, clean energy and production tax credits.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Today [Tuesday] at 1 pm, in Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Division, a 20 year-old man burnt himself in front of the office of Electricity and Energy. That is why he wrote a note and burnt himself in front of the office of Electricity and Energy as an act of protesting the junta. We are not going back to 2001+2002,” Ko Aung Aung writes.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Legislators pushing proposals to preempt local gas restrictions often claim the mantle of defending consumers’ “energy choice.”. A story published this summer in E&E News revealed that the term “energy choice” was coined by a consortium of gas utilities that have put their heads together to develop talking points for legislators.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A Texas state jury has awarded nearly $42 million to two oil and gas producers in their lawsuit against fossil fuel giant Energy Transfer Co. after finding that it allowed poisonous, corrosive and flammable chemicals to seep from a containment well into their land, hindering its use.

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Law 360

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Commodity Future Trading Commission has urged an Illinois federal judge to keep alive its suit accusing an energy trading firm and its owner of manipulating the crude oil market, saying the defendants' arguments that the agency has not properly alleged a spoofing scheme are "fatally flawed."

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Monster Energy dropped its trademark and trade dress infringement action alleging Beast Cookie used confusingly similar branding to advertise its caffeinated cookies, including a green color scheme and the phrase "untamed energy," according to an order signed by a California federal judge granting the parties' stipulation to end their dispute.

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2023

A Texas bankruptcy judge tasked with deciding whether a Chilean renewable energy company was justified in filing for Chapter 11 this month will hear arguments from the company and its equity sponsor next week on the cross-border dispute that's ensnared powerful private equity firm Ares Management.

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