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DOE’s AFFO Announces Intent To Award Up To $60 Million For Innovative Chemical, Fuel, And Fertilizer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office plans to award up to $60 million for projects that expand domestic energy production through innovative chemicals, fertilizers, fuels, and feedstock technologies. The funding opportunity will focus on three key areas: biointermediate depots, refinery integration with alternative feedstocks, and hydrogen/natural gas blending pilot sites. Applications are expected to open in November 2026 for research, development, and scale-up projects l
United States Energy
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Bergeson & Campbell
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Digging Deep: Inside The Race For Domestic Critical Minerals
The United States faces unprecedented challenges in securing domestic supplies of critical minerals essential to national security, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. As global demand surges and geopolitical tensions reshape international trade relationships, innovative technologies are emerging to unlock domestic sources, improve refining efficiency, and transform industrial waste into valuable feedstocks.
Global Energy
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Foley Hoag LLP
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Building Resilience Through Infrastructure Investment (Video)
As climate-related risks intensify and infrastructure demands grow, how can resilience infrastructure strengthen economies and communities? This discussion examines the distinction between resilience infrastructure and resilient infrastructure, exploring investment opportunities in emerging markets and the role of blended finance in unlocking institutional capital. The conversation delves into key considerations for investors and the future of resilience-focused infrastructure development.
United States Energy
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
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DOE’s AFFO Announces Intent To Award Up To $60 Million For Innovative Chemical, Fuel, And Fertilizer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office plans to award up to $60 million for projects that expand domestic energy production through innovative chemicals, fertilizers, fuels, and feedstock technologies. The funding opportunity will focus on three key areas: biointermediate depots, refinery integration with alternative feedstocks, and hydrogen/natural gas blending pilot sites. Applications are expected to open in November 2026 for research, development, and scale-up projects l
United States Energy
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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EPA Releases Draft Risk Evaluations For Trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene And 1,2-Dichloropropane
The EPA has released draft risk evaluations for trans-1,2-dichloroethylene and 1,2-dichloropropane under TSCA, identifying unreasonable risks to workers and consumers from various exposure pathways. However, the recent Fifth Circuit decision in East Fork Enterprises v. EPA, which vacated EPA's methylene chloride rule and risk determination, casts significant uncertainty over the agency's ability to complete these and other pending risk evaluations by the February 2027 consent decree deadline while ensuring
United States Environment
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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Collaborations In The Chemicals Industry: Why The Ancillary Restraints Doctrine Matters
The European Commission's 2020 enforcement action against ethylene purchasers for coordinating buy-side pricing strategies has triggered over €10 billion in follow-on damages claims and raised fundamental questions about the legality of competitor collaborations in the chemicals industry. While naked buyer cartels remain per se illegal, this analysis examines why the ancillary restraints doctrine should protect legitimate industry collaborations—including product swaps, joint purchasing agreemen
United States Anti-trust
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Mayer Brown
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Building Resilience Through Infrastructure Investment (Video)
As climate-related risks intensify and infrastructure demands grow, how can resilience infrastructure strengthen economies and communities? This discussion examines the distinction between resilience infrastructure and resilient infrastructure, exploring investment opportunities in emerging markets and the role of blended finance in unlocking institutional capital. The conversation delves into key considerations for investors and the future of resilience-focused infrastructure development.
United States Energy
KL
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
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Celebrating California’s Water Professionals
California's water professionals work tirelessly to ensure safe and reliable water, wastewater, and recycled water services across the state, especially as the region faces a hotter, drier climate with extreme weather events. This recognition highlights the essential expertise and dedication these professionals bring to their communities while encouraging the next generation to consider rewarding careers in the water industry.
United States Energy
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Nossaman LLP
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Michigan Court Dismisses Energy Antitrust Suit For Lack Of Standing
A federal district court dismissed Michigan's antitrust lawsuit against major energy companies and the American Petroleum Institute, which alleged a decades-long conspiracy to suppress renewable energy competition. The court found that the state failed to establish the requisite antitrust standing, determining that the causal chain between the alleged conspiracy and claimed injuries was too attenuated and that Michigan's residents were predominantly indirect purchasers under the Illinois Brick doctrine.
United States Anti-trust
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A&O Shearman
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DOE’s AFFO Announces Intent To Award Up To $60 Million For Innovative Chemical, Fuel, And Fertilizer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office plans to award up to $60 million for projects that expand domestic energy production through innovative chemicals, fertilizers, fuels, and feedstock technologies. The funding opportunity will focus on three key areas: biointermediate depots, refinery integration with alternative feedstocks, and hydrogen/natural gas blending pilot sites. Applications are expected to open in November 2026 for research, development, and scale-up projects l
United States Energy
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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Presidential Determination Pursuant To Section 303 Of The Defense Production Act Of 1950, As Amended, On Domestic Petroleum Production, Refining And Logistics Capacity (Trump EO Tracker)
Determines that domestic petroleum production, refining and logistics capacity are essential to national defense and waives statutory requirements under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act (DPA; P.L. 81-774) to accelerate capacity expansion, authorizing the Secretary of War to make purchases, commitments and provide financial support for related projects.
United States Government
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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Michigan Court Dismisses Energy Antitrust Suit For Lack Of Standing
A federal district court dismissed Michigan's antitrust lawsuit against major energy companies and the American Petroleum Institute, which alleged a decades-long conspiracy to suppress renewable energy competition. The court found that the state failed to establish the requisite antitrust standing, determining that the causal chain between the alleged conspiracy and claimed injuries was too attenuated and that Michigan's residents were predominantly indirect purchasers under the Illinois Brick doctrine.
United States Anti-trust
AO
A&O Shearman
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DOE’s AFFO Announces Intent To Award Up To $60 Million For Innovative Chemical, Fuel, And Fertilizer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office plans to award up to $60 million for projects that expand domestic energy production through innovative chemicals, fertilizers, fuels, and feedstock technologies. The funding opportunity will focus on three key areas: biointermediate depots, refinery integration with alternative feedstocks, and hydrogen/natural gas blending pilot sites. Applications are expected to open in November 2026 for research, development, and scale-up projects l
United States Energy
BC
Bergeson & Campbell
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Flipping The Switch: Protect Your Solar Lease Before The Power Flows
In California, solar operators leasing land for their projects face a critical risk: foreclosure by a junior lienholder could extinguish their lease and force premature project removal, potentially triggering defaults under revenue agreements. A simple yet often overlooked solution—recording a Memorandum of Lease—can protect the project from most foreclosures by establishing the lease's priority in the chain of title.
United States Real Estate
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Cox, Castle & Nicholson
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