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April 17, 2025
“Protecting American Energy From State Overreach”: Trump’s New Executive Order Could Jeopardize California Energy Laws
On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) entitled “Protecting American Energy From State Overreach.”
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April 16, 2025
Sarah Grey to Moderate Clean Hydrogen Law and Policy Webinar
Sarah Grey, a partner at Arnold & Porter, will moderate the upcoming GreenTech: Clean Hydrogen Projects, Policy, and Law in 2025 and Beyond webinar, hosted by the Environmental Law Institute on April 21, 2025.
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April 11, 2025
Incumbent Electricity Providers Targeted by New DOJ Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has established an Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force (Task Force). The Task Force is seeking public comment by May 26, 2025 regarding laws and regulations that create barriers to competition in certain industries. One of the sectors called out specifically for the Task Force’s scrutiny is electric energy.
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February 14, 2025
Trump Administration, Federal Circuit Set to Jumpstart Investments in Nuclear Energy
With new Executive Orders directing the slashing of red tape for the nuclear industry and new legal precedent from the Federal Circuit dramatically broadening government-backed indemnification for all steps of the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear power enters 2025 as a key player in America’s energy security and green transition.
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February 5, 2025
Pick Six: Secretary Burgum’s First Wave of Orders Signals Change at the Department of the Interior
On February 3, 2025, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed six Secretary’s Orders that will shape the U.S. Department of the Interior’s approach to energy and natural resource policy for the foreseeable future.
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January 29, 2025
Webinar: Energy and Energy Transition in the Trump Administration: Key Early Developments
On January 28, 2025, our attorneys held a webinar to recap the Trump administration’s myriad of initial Executive Orders pertaining to energy and energy transition.
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January 14, 2025
Treasury Issues Regulations for 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit
On January 10, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of the Treasury published in the Federal Register highly anticipated final regulations for the section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit.
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November 6, 2024
CCS Facing Heightened Scrutiny From Lawmakers; Courts
With nearly 100 carbon capture and storage projects currently moving through the permitting process across the U.S., several groups are calling for increased oversight of these technologies.
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October 31, 2024
Data Centers, AI, and Decarbonization: Legislative Focus Areas
The growing impact of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and the data centers that power them using U.S. energy has piqued the interests of federal policymakers across the political spectrum
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October 17, 2024
Data Centers, AI, and Decarbonization: Congressional Interest in Powering Clean Innovation
A common assumption among artificial intelligence (AI) optimists is that exponential growth of AI technology is limited only by the available computing resources. That is not the case. Rather, a significant constraint is the ability to meet the substantial electricity needs of such resources, while satisfying the need to maintain reliability and interest in prioritizing clean electricity resources for this energy-intensive technology.
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