Energy

  • October 08, 2025

    Battery Maker Enovix Gets Investor Suit Trimmed Again

    A California federal judge has pared an investor lawsuit against lithium battery maker Enovix to a single claim, after finding that two allegedly misleading statements by the company about its production equipment testing were significantly taken out of context.

  • October 08, 2025

    Pioneer Used Winter Storm To Dodge Obligations, Court Told

    Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc. failed to meet its end of a natural gas sale contract and cannot use Winter Storm Uri to dodge its obligations, an energy trading company told a Texas federal court during closing statements on Wednesday.

  • October 08, 2025

    Heritage Coal's Ch. 11 Plan Ignores Enviro Laws, States Say

    Maryland, Pennsylvania and the creditors committee of Heritage Coal have objected to its Chapter 11 liquidation plan, telling a Delaware bankruptcy judge that legal releases should be pared down and the states saying it doesn't address their environmental laws.

  • October 08, 2025

    Power Cos. Want In On Challenge To WV Regional Haze Plan

    American Electric Power Co. Inc. and FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiaries are asking the Fourth Circuit to uphold a federally approved air quality plan for West Virginia that spared their facilities from some potentially expensive upgrades.

  • October 08, 2025

    Biz Groups Back Ariz. Land Swap Amid 9th Circ. Appeal

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a slew of mining associations are backing the federal government's efforts to nix a Ninth Circuit appeal that looks to block the transfer of more than 2,500 acres within Arizona's Tonto National Forest to a copper mining company.

  • October 08, 2025

    Retirees Can't Show Losses From Pension Deal, Judge Says

    An aerospace materials manufacturer shouldn't face a proposed class action alleging it violated federal benefits law when it converted $1.5 billion in pension obligations to risky insurance-backed annuities, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge recommended, saying retirees hadn't demonstrated that the transaction diminished their benefits.

  • October 08, 2025

    Fla. Reactor Owner Sues Feds For Spent Fuel Storage Costs

    The owner of a shuttered nuclear reactor north of Tampa, Florida, hit the federal government with a suit seeking damages for the cost of storing radioactive waste the U.S. Department of Energy allegedly promised to take years ago.

  • October 07, 2025

    In Latest PacifiCorp Trial, 8 Ore. Fire Victims Seek Damages

    The latest PacifiCorp wildfire trial started Tuesday with opening statements describing the fear, displacement and trauma experienced by eight people, including a jewelry maker and a competitive horseback rider.

  • October 07, 2025

    5th Circ. Queries If ChampionX Covered In $40M Oil Spill Suit

    A Fifth Circuit panel Tuesday pressed ChampionX Corp. to explain how it can pursue a lawsuit in Texas seeking to make multiple insurers pay for its defense in a $40 million oil spill lawsuit if the underlying policies don't name it.

  • October 07, 2025

    Feds Sue SoCal Edison Over 2019 Saddleridge Wildfire Costs

    The U.S. government filed a lawsuit Tuesday in California federal court over damage caused to National Forest System land by the 2019 Saddleridge Fire in Los Angeles County, saying Southern California Edison was responsible for the blaze. 

  • October 07, 2025

    Puerto Rico Utility Bondholders Pull Out Of Reorg Deal

    A group of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders Tuesday informed a bankruptcy judge that they were following through on a promise to exit a restructuring agreement and join other bondholders in supporting an alternative bankruptcy plan for PREPA.

  • October 07, 2025

    4 Oral Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In Oct.

    The Second Circuit will hear from Teamsters looking to revive a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of a multiemployer pension plan, while Alcoa will ask the Seventh Circuit to overturn a ruling requiring the aluminum maker to cover union retirees' healthcare for life. Here, Law360 looks at four arguments that benefits attorneys should have on their radar this month.

  • October 07, 2025

    3 Firms Guide Real Estate-Focused SPAC's $200M IPO

    Blank-check company BOA Acquisition Corp. II filed plans Monday for a $200 million initial public offering guided by Paul Hastings LLP, Maples and Calder LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP, saying it is seeking to invest directly in real estate and infrastructure assets.

  • October 07, 2025

    Senate Confirms FERC Republican Nominees

    The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump's picks to fill Republican slots on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, giving the GOP a 3-2 majority at the agency.

  • October 07, 2025

    Duke Gas Rate Increase Was Improper, Ohio High Court Hears

    Duke Energy's Ohio utility shouldn't be allowed to collect $17 million from ratepayers to cover now-shuttered underground caverns used to store propane, the state's utility consumer advocate told the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday.

  • October 07, 2025

    NJ Justices Won't Disturb Locke Lord Win In Oil Co.'s Suit

    The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower appellate court decision handing a victory to Locke Lord LLP over malpractice claims from an oil processing company on the grounds that the firm does not have a significant connection to New Jersey and cannot be sued in the state's courts.

  • October 07, 2025

    Mich. Court Scraps Ruling That Affirmed Solar Farm Permit

    A Michigan state appeals court tossed a ruling that upheld a township's permit for an Invenergy subsidiary's industrial-scale solar farm, concluding that its board of trustees failed to sufficiently explain or provide a basis for its decision.

  • October 07, 2025

    White & Case Lands Akin Energy Ace In Houston

    White & Case LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its global mergers and acquisitions practice and global energy industry group with a partner in Houston who arrived from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

  • October 07, 2025

    Pa. Justices Wary Of Lifting Corporate Veil To Beat Time Limit

    Members of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court seemed skeptical of a bid by asbestos claimants to sue the parent company of a defunct industrial firm, pointing to a two-year time limit for claims against the dissolved subsidiary.

  • October 07, 2025

    Cos., Mass. Town End $50M Earth Removal Permit Bylaw Suit

    A construction supplies company and its quarry operator have agreed to permanently bring an end to their more than $50 million suit challenging a Massachusetts town's amended bylaw for earth removal permits that allegedly impeded the plaintiff's quarry operations, according to a stipulation of dismissal filed in Massachusetts federal court.

  • October 07, 2025

    Calif. Allows Tax Break For Solar Property Until Owner Change

    A California property tax exclusion for newly built solar energy systems that is set to end in 2027 will continue to apply until there is a change in a qualifying property's ownership under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

  • October 07, 2025

    Hess Cuts Deal To End Suit Over 401(k) Investment Roster

    Energy company Hess agreed to settle a proposed class action alleging it cost workers millions of dollars in retirement savings by loading its employee 401(k) plan with expensive and poorly performing investment options, according to filings in Texas federal court.

  • October 07, 2025

    Brookfield Wraps $20B Energy Transition Fund

    Private equity giant Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. on Tuesday revealed that it closed its flagship energy transition fund after securing $20 billion of investor commitments, a feat that the firm says marks the "world's largest private fund" dedicated to the transition to clean energy.

  • October 06, 2025

    2nd Circ. Revives Investors' Green Infrastructure Co. Suit

    The Second Circuit on Monday revived a proposed class action against defunct green infrastructure firm Abengoa SA, ruling that details from Spanish criminal proceedings against the firm could be used to claim that the company had defrauded its U.S.-based investors.

  • October 06, 2025

    Clark Hill Expands Transactions Practice In Denver

    Clark Hill PLC on Monday added six attorneys formerly of Burns Figa & Will to its Denver office in a move aimed at expanding the international firm's securities and corporate transactions practice in Colorado.

Expert Analysis

  • Using The GHG Protocol For California Climate Reporting

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    With the California Air Resources Board's recent announcement that entities subject to the state's climate disclosure laws can use the Greenhouse Gas Protocol as a standard for structured, auditable reporting, a review of methods, data sources and disclosures under the protocol is timely for compliance planning, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.

  • Trump Tax Law Has Mixed Impacts On Commercial Real Estate

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    The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping changes to the real estate industry — and while the permanency of opportunity zones and bonus depreciation creates predictability for some taxpayers, sunsetting incentives for renewable energy projects will leave others with hard choices, says Jordan Metzger at Cole Schotz.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

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    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

  • Unleashing LNG And Oil Exports With The Deepwater Port Act

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    The U.S. Department of Transportation and its Maritime Administration are now poised to use the streamlined licensing process of an existing statutory framework — the Deepwater Port Act — to approve proposed offshore terminals for exporting oil and liquefied natural gas, thus advancing the Trump administration's energy agenda, says Joanne Rotondi at Hogan Lovells.

  • Contractor Considerations As Construction Costs Rebound

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    The U.S. construction industry is navigating rising costs driven by energy and trade policy, which should prompt contractors to review contract structuring, supply chain management and market diversification, among other factors, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Why Feds' Criminal Vehicle Tampering Theory Falls Short

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    In recent years, federal regulators have advanced a novel theory that reprogramming a vehicle's onboard diagnostics system is a crime under the Clean Air Act — but a case now pending in the Ninth Circuit shows that the government's position is questionable for a host of reasons, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • How AI Can Find Environmental Risks Before Regulators Do

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    By using artificial intelligence to analyze public information that regulators collect but find incredibly challenging to connect across agencies and databases, legal teams can identify risks before widespread health impacts occur, rather than waiting for harm to surface — potentially transforming environmental litigation, says Paul Napoli at Napoli Shkolnik.

  • Series

    Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • Looking Beyond Property Damages For Wildfire Survivors

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    Personal injury attorneys seeking compensation for victims of wildfires like those in Los Angeles County must carefully apply a multidisciplinary approach that looks beyond obvious property loss to the full spectrum of damages, considering factors like emotional distress, disruption of community and the psychological toll of displacement, says Farid Yaghoubtil at Downtown L.A. Law Group.

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

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    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

  • Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes

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    Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Opinion

    State AGs, Not Local Officials, Should Lead Public Litigation

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    Local governments’ public nuisance lawsuits can raise constitutional and jurisdictional challenges, reinforcing the principle that state attorneys general — not municipalities — are best positioned to litigate on behalf of citizens when it is warranted, says former Utah Attorney General John Swallow.

  • Expect DOJ To Repeat 4 Themes From 2024's FCPA Trials

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    As two upcoming Foreign Corrupt Practice Act trials approach, defense counsel should anticipate the U.S. Department of Justice to revive several of the same themes prosecutors leaned on in trials last year to motivate jurors to convict, and build counternarratives to neutralize these arguments, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • Utilizing 6th Circ.'s Expanded Internal Investigation Protection

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    A recent Sixth Circuit decision in In re: FirstEnergy demonstrates one way that businesses can use a very limited showing to protect internal investigations from discovery in commercial litigation, while those looking to force production will need to employ a carefully calibrated approach, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

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    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

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