Biden Administration’s Recent Actions Related to Materials for Solar Panels...
Jeffrey Neeley, Cortney Morgan, Robert Stang, and Grant Leach have published an article titled “Biden Administration’s Recent Actions Related to Products from China’s Xinjiang Region” on International...
View ArticleIRS Extends Continuity Safe Harbor for ITC and PTC Projects
Renewable energy developers breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury issued guidance extending the safe harbor for wind and solar projects to...
View ArticleFederal Courts Issue a Mixed Bag of Decisions on Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting
Late last month, the Federal Courts issued two major rulings involving certificates of public convenience and necessity for natural gas pipelines issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....
View ArticleIs the TSA Security Directive A Harbinger of Oil and Gas Cybersecurity...
In the weeks that followed a ransomware attack on a domestic pipeline company, the federal government’s efforts to shore up the cybersecurity posture of America’s critical infrastructure and supply...
View ArticlePowered Haulage Safety High Priority for MSHA
Partner Brian Hendrix has published an article for Rock Products explaining MSHA’s focus on Power Haulage Safety. Brian examines the best practices provided by MSHA and offers advice to quarry...
View ArticleM&A Time and Cost-Saving Measures: Third Party Consents in Project Development
During the course of any acquisition of a renewable energy project, the parties may be required to obtain consents from certain of the counterparties to the project contracts. This will be the case if...
View ArticleResolving Prior Mortgage Issues on Greenfield Renewable Energy Projects
Prior mortgages are typical due diligence items in the real estate title review process for renewable energy projects. Resolving issues related to prior mortgages is key to establishing a title policy...
View ArticleReal Estate Concerns for Hybrid Renewable Energy Projects
The colocation of energy storage facilities with solar and wind projects has emerged as a popular trend within the renewable energy field. Many Independent System Operators have reported an increase in...
View ArticleTexas Legislature Expands Decommissioning Requirements to Solar Power...
The Texas legislature recently passed Senate Bill 760 (“SB 760”). SB 760, which takes effect on September 1, 2021, relates to the decommissioning of solar power facilities. Under the new law, solar...
View ArticleThe Argument for Mining Bitcoin from Clean Energy and Waste Energy Streams
What if you could substitute a renewable battery powered motor for the internal combustion engine just twelve years after its invention? At minimum, we would not be faced with the challenge of limiting...
View ArticleERCOT Now Requires Cryptocurrency Miners to Provide Information on Their...
Effective March 25, 2022, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”) began requiring documentation from large electrical loads like cryptocurrency miners before allowing them to connect to the...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Bidirectional Electric Vehicle Residential Charging Program
In March 2022, Pacific Gas & Electric (“PG&E”) announced a partnership with General Motors to create a bidirectional electric vehicle (“EV”) charging program in California that would allow...
View ArticleFERC’S Next Big Electric Initiative
On April 21, 2022, a split Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) approved 4-1 a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) on transmission planning and cost allocation. Issued pursuant to section...
View ArticleDelaware Court of Chancery Reaffirms LLC Member Protections
Delaware has long been a preferred jurisdiction for business formation, partly because of its well-developed body of case law with respect to commercial disputes (which makes predicting the outcome of...
View ArticleBOEM Readies Itself for Further Offshore Wind Development Along the Central...
The Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) revealed its intention to request Calls for Information and Nominations for a variety of Call Areas along the Central Atlantic and Oregon coasts on...
View ArticleERCOT, Market Participants, and Bitcoin Miners Become Acquainted at Second...
The second meeting of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’s (ERCOT) Large Flexible Load Task Force (LFLTF) facilitated an opportunity for ERCOT, ERCOT market participants (MPs), and bitcoin...
View ArticleU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Makes Clear Its Commitment to Eagle Protection...
The already-complicated relationship between wind energy and eagles has taken center stage recently. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is ramping up its efforts to protect bald and golden...
View ArticleMine Safety and Health Administration Updates
Husch Blackwell Partner Brian Hendrix recently published articles with Coal Age providing his legal perspective on MSHA and their relationship to mine operators: Telling MSHA To Get Lost (What Not To...
View ArticleNew ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESA Standard Stuck in Limbo
The long-anticipated new ASTM standard concerning Phase I environmental site assessments (ESAs), which was finally expected to go into effect mid-May, is in limbo while the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleEmbarrassing paper: MSHA Citations Or Orders That Do Little To Advance Miner...
Husch Blackwell Partner Brian Hendrix published an article with Rock Products where he gave a few of the most glaring examples of what he describes as “embarrassing paper.” We often refer to an MSHA...
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