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Project Finance - February, 2017

215 articles

• Sioux Say Trump Illegally Pushed Through Dakota Pipeline
• $15B TransCanada Arbitration Paused Amid Keystone Reboot
• Mo. Regulators Question Need For $220M Gas Pipeline
• Industry Groups Push Congress On Broadband Infrastructure
• Trump Moves To Sink Obama's Clean Water Rule
• Railroads Slam Feds' Bid To Save Amtrak Regulatory Power
• EPA Faces Final Shots Over Air Pollution Rule Compliance
• How 401(k) Benefits Can Attract Millennial Legal Talent
• How The Courts Review Executive Orders
• Why 2017 May Be A Steadier Year For Oil And Gas Firms
• Power Cos. Slam EPA Mercury Rule Cost Analysis In DC Circ.
• Sioux Tribes Press Religious Claims Against Dakota Access
• Power Groups Want To Move Issues To Clean Power Plan Suit
• Canada Can Advance Appeal Over Nova Scotia Quarry Row
• Cities, Enviros Urge FERC To Pull Pipeline Project OK
• BOEM To Offer 1.09M Acres In Alaska Offshore Drilling Sale
• DTE Energy Urges 6th Circ. To End Emissions Case Confusion
• EPA Extends Comment Period For Hardrock Mining Rule
• Meridian Closes $227M Purchase Of DC-Area Office Portfolio
• ERM And The Role Of Counsel In Cross-Border Investments
• FERC Gives Initial Enviro OK To $2.7B Pipeline Expansions
• Lone Star Forms $550M Indian Infrastructure Investment JV
• FERC's Pipeline Review Process Is Working As Intended
• States Look To NEPA Review Power To Spur New Projects
• Fla. High Court Rejects Nuke Plant Appeal From Gov., FPL
• DOI Slams Brakes On Mineral Royalty Rule Amid Court Fight
• Deal In Calif. Power Plant Emissions Suit Gets Green Light
• AES, Alberta Investment Pay $853M For Solar Co. SPower
• Okla. AG Seeks To Block More Pruitt Email Releases
• What Lawyers Can Learn From Kellyanne Conway
• A Potential Risk For Eminent Domain In California
• GOP Faces Pitched Battle As It Looks To Revise ESA
• Texas Rep Lobbies Pruitt To Permit Mine Near Salmon Fishery
• Shareholders Hit Seventy Seven Energy With Merger Suit
• Williams Says FERC Can't Act On Trump Pipeline Order
• ND, Energy Cos. Ask 8th Circ. To OK $1.3M Fee In Minn. Row
• Pa. Enviros Denied In 2nd Attempt To Pause Sunoco Pipeline
• Oglala Sioux Seek DC Circ. Review Of Uranium Mine Approval
• The Uncertain Future Of PURPA, A Key To Renewable Energy
• The Mistakes Lawyers Make When Copying And Pasting
• 9th Circ. Won't Reconsider Decision To Protect Arctic Seal
• ICSID Will Continue Suspension Of $49M Award
• Tribes Tell 8th Circ. Sanctions Unwarranted In Pipeline Row
• A Hobbled FERC No Disaster For Energy Cos., For Now
• Feds, Dakota Access Fight Religious Opposition To Pipeline
• Texas Lawmakers Unite Against Dallas-Houston Rail Project
• Calif. Court Gets Automatic Funding Disclosure Right
• Oil Storage Co. Accuses Magellan Of Stifling Competition
• Pruitt Emails Show Ties With Fossil Fuel Players
• Judge OKs Management Deal For Hotel In 1MDB Scandal
• Law360 Project Finance Editorial Advisory Board
• AT&T Urges FCC To Nix 'Cadillac' Broadband Expansion Goals
• Texas Defends Enviro Review Of Austin Highway Project
• 7th Circ. Says Travelers Must Cover Some Of Airport's Costs
• Eyes On High Court To Weigh In On Annulled Arbitral Awards
• EPA Urges 4th Circ. To Undo Coal Jobs Analysis Order
• Beverly Hills Schools Ask 9th Circ. To Halt Subway Funding
• NYC Mayor Tells 17 Banks To Pull Dakota Access Financing
• Suit To Block Albuquerque's $120M Bus Plan Is Dropped
• New EPA Chief Pledges To Change Regulatory, Legal Practices
• High Court Won't Hear $400M Petrobras Suit Appeal
• Virginia's Uranium Mining Ban Upheld By Fourth Circuit
• The Quadrennial Energy Review And Grid Security
• EPA Can't Second-Guess Texas Ozone Plan, 5th Circ. Told
• Ex-NJ DOT Chief Charged In Airline Bribery Case Dead At 62
• Army Corps Says Pipeline Camp Cleanup Needs To Speed Up
• Oakland's Justified In Banning Coal Shipments, Enviros Say
• Nigeria Lists $1B Bond On LSE To Fund Infrastructure
• Texas High Court To Hear $42M Atty-Client Fee Dispute
• FERC Can't Justify Refusal-Rights Ruling, High Court Told
• Exxon, Shell Defend Docs Request In $1.8B Award Row
• El Paso Pipeline Stuck With $1M Appeal Bond Fee
• FERC Can't Defend Shorter Hydro Project License, Duke Says
• With Trump In The Ex-Im Fold, Dem Lawmaker Seeks Action
• Senate Confirms Pruitt As EPA Chief
• Enviros Denied Halt To Newly Approved Sunoco Pa. Pipepline
• FCC Told Proposed Subsidy Cuts Could Widen Digital Divide
• Sioux Official, Dakota Access Exec Trade Blows Over Pipeline
• Port Authority OKs $32.2B Capital Plan For Transpo Projects
• DOI Urges Supreme Court To Refuse Noble's Well-Plug Row
• Northern Dynasty Lied About Pebble Mine Value, Investor Says
• Landowners, Sierra Club Lose Challenge To Iowa DAPL Permit
• Long-Term Surface Transpo Funding Fix Needed, Says GAO
• Anglers' Bid To Halt $43M NY Wind Farm Lease Denied
• Relearning The Lessons Of Korematsu's Case
• How A General Counsel Should Think About AI: Part 2
• Small Telecoms Decry FCC's Proposed 'Flash Cuts'
• Watchdog Says Okla. AG Withholding Thousands Of Emails
• Contractor Pushes For Appeal In $1.39B Chevron Jetty Case
• Landowners Fight Transco Win In Pipeline Fight At 11th Circ.
• Enviros, Utilities Clash Over EPA Mercury Rule Challenges
• Standing Rock Says Corps Broke Law With Pipeline OK
• Ill. Nuke Plant Subsidies Flout FERC, Power Cos. Say
• Endangered Species Case Won't Move From DC To Minn.
• How A General Counsel Should Think About AI: Part 1
• A New Element In Awarding Calif. Public Works Contracts
• Colorado AG Sues Boulder County Over Oil Drilling Ban
• DOT Overstepped With Rail Safety Order, DC Circ. Told
• Trade Group Asks FCC For More Broadband Build-Out Funds
• Special Master Deals Fla. Loss In Water Fight With Ga.
• DC Circ. Asked To Review Deal To Close Santa Monica Airport
• EPA Asks Out Of Navajo, NM Suits Over Gold King Mine Spill
• Truckers Fight To Keep NY Thruway Tolls Suit Alive
• Trump Signs Repeal Of SEC Payment Disclosure Rule
• FERC Could See Substantial Changes Under President Trump
• Argentina Slams Arbitrator's Ties To Contractor At DC Circ.
• Senate Dems Push To Delay Pruitt Vote, Question Icahn Links
• Pa. DEP Advances Sunoco, PennEast Natural Gas Pipelines
• 4 Fla. Water Law Issues To Watch In 2017
• Saving Lawyers 1 Less Drink At A Time
• Feds Move To Save Amtrak Regulatory Power Over Railroads
• Tribe Tells 8th Circ. Lower Court Got Pipeline Row Wrong
• Battle Over KBR Unit's $300M Award Heads To Supreme Court
• Cheniere Backs DOE Approval Of LNG Exports At DC Circ.
• Top 4 Aviation Policy Priorities Under Trump
• Cheyenne Lose Emergency Bid To Halt Dakota Access Drilling
• State Dept. Gives Enviro OK To Enbridge Pipeline Expansion
• Oglala Sioux Push For Dakota Access Pipeline Enviro Report
• Nashville Stalling On Gas Project Permit, DC Circ. Told
• Italian Co. Wins Enforcement Of $27M Award Against Morocco
• Antitrust: A New Line Of Attack Against Pipelines
• Lawyers Cannot Stay Silent While Trump Belittles The Courts
• El Paso Pipeline Investor Balks At $1M Fee For Appeal Bond
• States, Cos. Tell DC Circ. To Uphold EPA Mercury Rule
• Chadbourne Says Sanctions Info Misleading In Congo Case
• Pa. Justices Urged To Nix Fracking Rule Injunction
• Marketing Basics For Solo Practitioners And Small Law Firms
• Dems Say Trump Has Flipped, Now Supports Ex-Im
• The (Not-So-Certain) Future Of EPA's Vapor Intrusion Rule
• Taxation With Representation: Vinson, Bracewell, Debevoise
• Aging Coal-Fired Power Plants In The Trump Era
• Rover Pipeline Sues Landowners To Start Construction
• State Dept. Receives Re-Submitted Keystone XL Proposal
• Energy Cos. Unnerved By Trump's Mexico Border Tax Talk
• Calif. City To Nix $124M Wells Fargo Contract Over Pipeline
• Trump Vows Regulatory Rollback In Airline Execs Meeting
• Cobalt Says No Charges In 2nd FCPA Probe Of Angolan Ops
• Design-Build Team Tapped For $1.5B Javits Center Update
• Exxon Wants In On Calif. Coastal Fracking, Acidizing Suits
• Tribe Looks To Undo Dakota Access Pipeline OK, Stall Work
• What FERC Can — And Cannot — Do Without A Quorum
• Project Finance Group Of The Year: Orrick
• Law Firm Margin Improvement: The Long Game
• SoCalGas To Pay $8.5M To Settle Aliso Canyon Leak Suit
• Long-Shot Carbon Tax Plan Aims For Policy Consensus
• DAPL Greenlight Draws Fire From Lawmakers, Tribal Group
• EPA Says Coal Jobs Appeal Needs To Be Decided Quickly
• Seattle To Pull $3B Out Of Wells Fargo Over Dakota Pipeline
• Deals Rumor Mill: Aramco, Jose Cuervo, Canada Goose
• Parsley Energy Makes $2.8 Billion Texas Assets Grab
• Project Finance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers
• Pipeline Cos. Fight Challenge To $3.5B Fla. Pipeline OK
• The Quadrennial Energy Review And Grid Modernization
• 2017 Check-Up: Is Your Law Firm Positioned For Success?
• Congress Puts EPA, Power Plan In Crosshairs With New Bills
• Project Finance Group Of The Year: Nossaman
• Enviros Ready In Bid To Block $500M Austin Hwy Projects
• Corps Poised To Grant Final OK To Dakota Access Pipeline
• Paris Appeals Court Upholds $740M Award Against Venezuela
• Judge Won't Limit Police Force In Dakota Pipeline Protests
• Williams Is Flouting Trump Pipeline Order, Landowners Say
• Project Finance Group Of The Year: Chadbourne & Parke
• Dakota Access May Get Pipeline OK Soon, Tribe's Atty Says
• Conn. Man Pleads Guilty To Soccer Stadium Fraud
• Africa Finance Leads $205M Guinea Mine Investment
• Truckers Seek Class Status In NY Thruway Tolls Spat
• ConocoPhillips Hits Back At Citgo Parent's Stay Bid
• Don't Pause BLM Auction Suit For Appeal, Oil Group Says
• On Way Out, FERC Commish Urges More Gas Drilling Scrutiny
• RI Wind Farm Seeks To Maintain Court Win At 1st Circ.
• The End Of SEC's Payment Disclosure Rule
• Miami Says High Court Should Reject Pro-Nuke Plant Appeal
• 11th Circ. Axes Enviros' Challenge To Route For Fla. Bridge
• Project Finance Group Of The Year: Akin Gump
• 10th Circ. Won't Revive Gas Co.'s Pipeline Antitrust Suit
• Calif. Agencies Ask FERC To Order PG&E Transparency
• FERC Defends Shorter Relicense For Duke Hydro Project
• Ex-BOEM Heads Urge Trump To Stay Course On Offshore Wind
• FERC Greenlights Pipeline Projects As Bay Walks Out Door
• High Court Asked To Review Calif. Suction Mining Ban
• Lack Of Quorum Looming, FERC Gives More Power To Staff
• President Trump's Pipeline Memos Send The Right Message
• Taxation With Representation: Cleary, Cooley, Skadden
• House Clears Bill Nixing Methane Flaring Rule
• SEC Payment Disclosure Rule Moves Closer To Repeal
• Looming Repeal Of SEC Oil & Gas Rule Stokes Bribery Fears
• Dakota Access Says Suit Docs Could Aid Terrorist Attack
• Calif. Appeals Court Orders Jury Trial In $110M Loan Row
• Citing Lack Of Quorum, Sens. Demand FERC Pull Pipeline OK
• NFL Teams Urged By Ticket Brokers To End Resale Limits
• Bus Cos. Join Truckers Targeting NY Thruway Tolls
• Enviros Blast Army Corps Over Wrong Evidence In Reef Row
• Feds, NC Transportation Dept. Sued Over Bridge Approval
• Citgo Parent Blasts ConocoPhillips 'Rehash' Of Fraud Claims
• NFL Chief Skeptical Of Vegas Stadium With Casino Interest
• Loeb & Loeb Adds Energy Pro From Day Pitney
• Feds Slam Va. Motorists' Challenge To Dulles Tolls
• FCC's O'Rielly Warns To Be 'Leery' Of Broadband Spending
• FERC Refusal-Rights Ruling Should Stick, High Court Told
• Can Federal Agencies Reverse Course Under Trump?
• Sen. Committee Suspends Rules, Advances Pruitt EPA Nom
• The 4 Wittiest Dissents By Gorsuch
• Gorsuch's Opening Words Speak Volumes About His Style
• Senators Flirt With Nuclear Option Over High Court Pick
• Similar On The Law, Gorsuch Differs From Scalia In Style
• House Passes Bill Revoking SEC Payment Disclosure Rule
• Attys React To Judge Gorsuch's Supreme Court Nomination
• ONEOK Absorbs Midstream Gas MLP In $9.3B Buyout
• ND Pols Claim Army Corps Will Issue Dakota Access Approval
• First Nations Sign Enviro Oversight Deal For LNG Project
• FERC Defends $3.5B Fla. Pipeline Before DC Circ.
• DOE Can't Downplay Impact Of LNG Exports, Enviros Say
• BlackRock Grabs Infrastructure Funds After Trump Actions
• Senate Dems Boycott, Block Pruitt EPA Vote
• The Myth Of The Forceful Mediator