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FERC Seeks Comments By November 14, 2025 On Proposed DOE Reforms To Accelerate The Interconnection Of Large Loads

By letter dated October 23, 2025, Department of Energy ("DOE") Secretary Chris Wright ("the Secretary") directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC")...

United States Energy

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Bracewell

57. October 22, 2025 | Trump Administration Blocks Major Russian Oil Firms

In response to Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in March 2014 and February 2022, the Department of Treasury implemented various sanctions on Russian entities.

United States International

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Thompson Coburn LLP

Regulatory Reform In Washington: Clean Energy Siting Council Releases 2025 Report Recommending Reforms To Speed Clean Energy Projects

Who's Impacted: Clean energy developers, transmission operators, local siting authorities, and Tribal governments.

United States Energy

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Beveridge & Diamond

New OFAC Sanctions Adversely Impact Rosneft And Lukoil: Extra Diligence Required

Washington, D.C. (October 29, 2025) - On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed further sanctions (Sanctions)...

United States International

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Department Of Energy Directs FERC To Act On The Study And Interconnection Of Large Loads And Hybrid Facilities, FERC Opens Public Comment Period

United States Energy

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Van Ness Feldman

Court Requires DEC To Promulgate Regulations In NYS Climate Regulation Case

United States Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Coordinated & Far-Reaching New Sanctions On Russia Represent Strongest Yet As UK, US, & EU Push To End The War In Ukraine

United States International

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Bracewell

U.S.–Japan Critical Minerals And Rare Earths: A Full-Circle Moment, 2010 → 2025

United States International

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Baker Botts LLP

Secretary Of Energy Directs FERC To Develop Rules For Interconnecting Large Loads

United States Energy

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Duane Morris LLP

DOE Proposes New Federal Standards For Interconnecting Large Loads To The Grid

United States Energy

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Foley & Lardner

Administration Tees Up Major Expansion Of FERC Jurisdiction Over Large-Load Interconnections

United States Energy

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Davis Wright Tremaine

New Army Corps Guidance Puts Wind And Solar Projects In The Slow Lane

United States Energy

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Holland & Hart

States Contend With The Proliferation Of Data Centers Across The East Coast

United States Energy

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Duane Morris LLP

Montana Announces Multistate Investigation Of Big Tech Renewable Energy Claims (Podcast)

United States Energy

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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The Changes To The English Arbitration Regime: What Parties To International Construction Disputes Need To Know

United States Litigation

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JAMS

Federal Court Blocks Enforcement Of Texas Proxy Advisor Disclosure Law

United States Commercial

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Tariffs, Contracts And The Negotiation Imperative: Why The Old Playbook Won't Work

United States International

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JAMS

Resolving Construction Conflicts Efficiently: A Guided Mediation Approach

United States Litigation

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JAMS

Banking Industry Outlook: U.S. Banking M&A Surge Arrives In Q3

United States Compliance

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Ankura Consulting Group LLC

California Supreme Court Replaces Greyhound Deference For Public Utilities Commission's Interpretation Of Its Code With Less Deferential Yamaha Standard

In its opinion in Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission the California Supreme Court overturned the First Appellate District's application of the highly deferential Greyhound standard of review ...

United States Energy

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Fennemore

California's Cap-and-Trade Is Extended And Becomes 'Cap-and-Invest' In Package Of New Energy Laws

At the end of its legislative session, the California legislature passed AB 1207 and SB 840 to extend and introduce new measures for California's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions Cap-and-Trade program, which has now been renamed "Cap-and-Invest."

United States Energy

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

DOE Directs FERC To Initiate Large Load Interconnection Rulemaking

On October 23, 2025, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct a rulemaking to assert jurisdiction over load interconnections to the bulk electric...

United States Energy

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In A Move Affecting The Future Of Data Centers, DOE Directs FERC To Act On Large Load Interconnections

On October 23rd, the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") containing an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

United States Energy

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Crowell & Moring LLP

DOE Directs FERC To Consider Groundbreaking Rules Related To Large Load Interconnection

United States Energy

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Mintz

Sanctions Update: October 27, 2025

United States International

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Steptoe LLP

Louisiana Court Vacates LNG Permit, Must Consider Climate Change And Environmental Justice

United States Environment

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Liskow & Lewis

From Conditional To Final: DOE Clears CP2 LNG For Non-FTA Exports

United States Energy

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Permitting Reform In Action: CEQ Updates Roadmap For Agency NEPA Compliance

United States Environment

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Holland & Knight

OFAC Sanctions Russia's Two Largest Oil Companies

United States International

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Client Alert: CCS Project Suspension

United States Energy

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Liskow & Lewis

Alternative Power Plays: Pennsylvania's Energy Position (Podcast)

United States Energy

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

One Minute Matters [Video]: Is Co-Location Energy Making Data Centers Harder To Build? (With Richard Darke)

United States Energy

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Dykema

Unlocking Critical Value: Circular Strategies For Critical Minerals

United States Energy

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Arcadis

Client Alert: CCS Project Suspension

On October 15, 2025, Governor Landry issued Executive Order No. JML 25-119. The Order places a moratorium on agency review...

United States Energy

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Liskow & Lewis

Alternative Power Plays: Pennsylvania's Energy Position (Podcast)

For decades, Pennsylvania has served as a key energy battleground and, in some ways, a harbinger for the challenges the energy industry will face years down the line.

United States Energy

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

One Minute Matters [Video]: Is Co-Location Energy Making Data Centers Harder To Build? (With Richard Darke)

🏗️⚡ The data center industry is racing to embrace renewable energy through co-location, but what looks like an engineering solution is actually a legal minefield of overlapping regulations

United States Energy

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Dykema

Unlocking Critical Value: Circular Strategies For Critical Minerals

As demand for critical minerals accelerates, so does the pressure to find smarter, more sustainable ways to source them.

United States Energy

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Arcadis

NYCDOB Issues Two New Energy Storage System Rules

United States Energy

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Sive, Paget & Riesel

The New Frontier: Financing Storage-Only And Co-Located Projects

Battery storage is quickly becoming a major player in the clean energy transition. There are two main project types: storage-only projects and co-located projects.

United States Energy

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Foley & Lardner

Can Finance And Policy Unlock The Carbon Capture Boom? (Podcast)

Elizabeth McGinley joins Sylvia Leyva Martinez on Wood Mackenzie's Interchange Recharged podcast to discuss the evolving carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) regulatory landscape.

United States Energy

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Bracewell

Post Loper-Bright, D.C. Circuit Upholds FERC's Interpretation Of Power Facility Capacity Under PURPA

On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in Broadview Solar that, for the first time, applied the Supreme Court's new Loper-Bright framework...

United States Energy

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Bracewell

Sanctions Update: October 20, 2025

The Sanctions Update, compiled by attorneys from Steptoe's award-winning International Regulatory Compliance team and the Stepwise: Risk Outlook editorial team, publishes every Monday.

United States International

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Steptoe LLP

Key Takeaways From The 9th Annual Baker Institute Energy Summit – Resilience In Energy Supply Chains

United States Energy

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Baker Botts LLP

Key Environmental And Energy Takeaways From The Senate's $914 Billion National Defense Authorization Act

United States Government

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Holland & Hart

P2N0 - Edition 36 - News And Views On The Drive Towards Net-Zero GHG Emissions

Worldwide Energy

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Baker Botts LLP

The Gold Rush For Renewable Diesel Is Over: Profitability Strategies For Refiners

United States Energy

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AlixPartners

Louisiana Freezes New Carbon Capture Applications

United States Environment

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Phelps Dunbar LLP

Louisiana Governor Issues Executive Order Revising State Criteria For Class VI Carbon Sequestration Permitting

United States Energy

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Van Ness Feldman

State Tort Liability For Nuclear Incidents? Supreme Court Calls For Solicitor General Review On Preemption Issue

United States Environment

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Beveridge & Diamond

Developers Adapt Timelines And Strategies For Wind And Solar Projects Following Recent IRS Guidance And Expected IRS Enforcement Activity

United States Energy

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Crowell & Moring LLP

FERC Meeting Agenda Summaries For October 2025

United States Energy

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Perkins Coie LLP

The US Issues A Detailed Ultimatum Against International "Carbon Tax" Ahead Of IMO Net-Zero Framework Vote

United States Transport

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Jones Walker

Government Shutdown And BOEM, BSEE And ONRR Contingency Plans

United States Energy

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Liskow & Lewis

The Exploration Crisis: Why Oil & Gas Companies Are Finding Less While Demand Keeps Growing (Video)

United States Commercial

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Alvarez & Marsal

Recent Changes To Iowa Sales Tax Exemption Certificates

United States Tax

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Nyemaster Goode

The Achilles Heel Of U.S. Centric Cleantech Energy Patent Portfolios

United States IP

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Foley & Lardner

Podcast: The Oil And Gas Regulator With An Unlikely Name: The Texas Railroad Commission

United States Energy

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Liskow & Lewis

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Dykema

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Alvarez & Marsal

Bracewell Explains – Speed To Power: Using Associated Natural Gas To Power Data Centers (Video)

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Bracewell

In That Case: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado (Video)

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WilmerHale

Hon. Andrew Wheeler | Former EPA Administrator and Current Partner and Head of Federal Affairs at Holland & Hart (Podcast)

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Holland & Hart

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