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New Daylight For Geothermal: How Federal Support And Bipartisan Permitting Reform Are Fueling A Geothermal Boom

As wind and solar development faced political and regulatory headwinds over the past year, the Trump Administration signaled renewed momentum for geothermal energy development.

United States Energy

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Foley Hoag LLP

Doral Renewables' Drive To Build Sustainable Solar Solutions

Consumers and companies are using more power than ever. Among other factors, as the United States doubles down on AI (and data centers proliferate to keep pace), demand for energy continues to grow.

United States Energy

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McDermott Will & Schulte

New DOJ OLC Opinion Authorizes Broad Use Of The Defense Production Act To Preempt State Law And Displace Consent Decree Obligations

On March 3, 2026, OLC issued an opinion addressing a question raised by the Department of Energy involving an energy company that leases and operates a large oilfield in federal waters...

United States Energy

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Beveridge & Diamond

Regulatory Realignment: How Policy Shifts Are Accelerating Energy Infrastructure Development

Federal energy regulators are assuming expanded roles as the administration prioritizes energy dominance and infrastructure development to meet unprecedented power demand. FERC Chairman Laura Swett has vowed to expedite data center interconnections while addressing jurisdictional challenges, warning that unmet electricity demand could drive data centers abroad and create national security risks.

United States Energy

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Comments On Minnesota's Draft Concepts For A CUU Rule Are Due March 29, 2026

United States Energy

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Bergeson & Campbell

Treasury Department, IRS Provide Guidance On Prohibited Foreign Entity Rules

United States Energy

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Holland & Knight

DOE Releases $1.9 Billion Funding Opportunity For Grid Upgrades And Expansion

United States Energy

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Holland & Knight

Landmark Appellate Victory For Illinois Solar Energy Developers

United States Energy

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ArentFox Schiff

New Federal Funding Opens Key Opportunities In Critical Minerals

United States Energy

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Mintz

Recent Federal Developments For March 2026

United States Energy

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Bergeson & Campbell

BOEM Proposes To Loosen Supplemental Financial Assurance Requirements For Offshore Oil And Gas Lessees

United States Energy

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Bracewell

The Global Race On PFAS Regulation: What US Companies Need To Prepare For Now — A Conversation With Lindsay A. Holden, Ph.D. And Carla N. Hutton (Podcast)

United States Energy

BC

Bergeson & Campbell

Massachusetts AGO Rejects Yet Another Municipal Solar And Battery Storage Moratorium

United States Energy

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Foley Hoag LLP

BOEM Proposed Rule Includes Significant Changes To 2024 Financial Assurance Regulations

United States Energy

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Liskow & Lewis

Seventh Circuit Roundup: What Recent Decisions Reveal About Pleading, Intent, And Immunity (Podcast)

United States Litigation

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Colorado "Opt-Out" Litigation – Petition For Rehearing En Banc And Amicus Briefs In Support

United States Finance

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Ballard Spahr LLP

What Europe's Renewable Energy Struggles Can Teach U.S. Regulators About Dispute System Design

United States Litigation

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JAMS

Federal Government Continues Anti-Fraud Enforcement In The Sports Industry And Signals Desire To Work Cooperatively With Organizations Under Investigation

United States Criminal

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Steptoe LLP

Mediator-and Arbitrator-Retained Experts In Construction Or Business Disputes

United States Litigation

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JAMS

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Mining

Critical Minerals: "Project Vault" And The New US Critical Minerals Playbook

The United States is taking steps to secure access to critical minerals as geopolitical competition and supply chain pressures intensify.

Worldwide Government

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Mayer Brown

New Federal Funding Opens Key Opportunities In Critical Minerals

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DBIC) have opened major new funding pathways aimed at strengthening domestic critical mineral supply chains.

United States Energy

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Mintz

Trump Administration Charts Ambitious Path Toward US Critical Mineral Dominance

The Trump Administration is becoming increasingly focused, and ambitious, in implementing its agenda to secure US access to critical minerals and rare earth materials.

United States Energy

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WilmerHale

Trump Administration And Export-Import Bank Establish A $12B U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve: Five Things Critical Mineral Mining Companies Need To Know Now

United States Energy

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Foley & Lardner

NOAA Finalizes Changes To Deep Seabed Mining Regulations

United States Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

US-Led Efforts To Coordinate Critical Minerals Trade Policies Take Shape

United States Energy

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Cassidy Levy Kent

Critical Minerals Ministerial Recap: How The U.S. Is Redefining Global Production

United States Energy

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Clark Hill

EU And US Approaches To Critical Minerals – Executive Summary

United States Energy

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Breaking China's Stranglehold: Trump's $12B Critical Minerals Stockpile

United States International

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Holland & Hart

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Utilities

DOE Releases $1.9 Billion Funding Opportunity For Grid Upgrades And Expansion

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) on March 12, 2026, issued the Speed to Power Through Accelerated Reconductoring and other Key Advanced Transmission Technology Upgrades (SPARK)...

United States Energy

HK

Holland & Knight

White House's "BYOG" Policy Creates Opportunities As 7 Tech Giants Pledge To Self-supply Power For Data Centers

On March 4, 2026, the White House released the Ratepayer Protection Pledge (the Pledge), a nonbinding commitment wherein seven leading tech companies agree to "build, bring, or buy"...

United States Energy

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McDermott Will & Schulte

Inside Digital Infrastructure: Enchanted Rock's Joel Yu On Speed To Power And Data Center Siting

Joel Yu, Senior Vice President of Policy & External Affairs at Enchanted Rock, joins Steven Shparber, Co-chair of Mintz's Digital Infrastructure Practice, to discuss how power availability has become the gating factor for data center development.

United States Technology

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Mintz

Rapid Fire Remix: North Carolina Government Relations, Utilities, And Natural Disaster Recovery

United States Insurance

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Ward and Smith, P.A.

Energy Planning Should Balance Reliability, Affordability

United States Energy

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Utilities And Data Centers Confront Congressional Scrutiny Over Rising Electricity Prices

United States Energy

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Crowell & Moring LLP

Missouri Bill Proposes Immediate Moratorium On Solar Projects

United States Real Estate

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Key Takeaways From The California Public Utilities Commission SB 254 Wildfire Report

United States Environment

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Nossaman LLP

Alpha Beneath The Asphalt: Tapping Into Underground Water Infrastructure's Trillion Dollar Opportunity

United States Energy

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Alvarez & Marsal

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Energy Law

Monitoring The Hormuz Strait And The Subsequent Trade Volatility

On March 9th, 2026, maritime tracking data showed just one outbound vessel, bearing an Iranian flag, transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with no inbound movements recorded at all.

United States International

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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

New Daylight For Geothermal: How Federal Support And Bipartisan Permitting Reform Are Fueling A Geothermal Boom

As wind and solar development faced political and regulatory headwinds over the past year, the Trump Administration signaled renewed momentum for geothermal energy development.

United States Energy

FH

Foley Hoag LLP

Doral Renewables' Drive To Build Sustainable Solar Solutions

Consumers and companies are using more power than ever. Among other factors, as the United States doubles down on AI (and data centers proliferate to keep pace), demand for energy continues to grow.

United States Energy

SR

McDermott Will & Schulte

Sanctions Update: March 16, 2026

United States International

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Steptoe LLP

New DOJ OLC Opinion Authorizes Broad Use Of The Defense Production Act To Preempt State Law And Displace Consent Decree Obligations

United States Energy

BD

Beveridge & Diamond

Regulatory Realignment: How Policy Shifts Are Accelerating Energy Infrastructure Development

United States Energy

AG

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The EU AI Act: What Energy Executives Should Know Before August 2026

United States Technology

BB

Baker Botts LLP

New Federal Funding Opens Key Opportunities In Critical Minerals

United States Energy

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Mintz

Treasury Department, IRS Provide Guidance On Prohibited Foreign Entity Rules

United States Energy

HK

Holland & Knight

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Water

Recent Federal Developments For March 2026

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) provides critical protections for commercially sensitive information related to a company’s business, processes, and chemicals.

United States Energy

BC

Bergeson & Campbell

Water Supply Assessments Under CEQA: Vallejo v. American Canyon Clarifies What Must (And Need Not) Be Included

On January 14, 2026, a California Court of Appeal upheld the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) certified by the City of American Canyon (American Canyon) and the accompanying...

United States Environment

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Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis

Can Nuclear Power The Cloud? Baseload Energy Options For Data Centers (Podcast)

In this episode of Bracewell's Data Center Counsel podcast, Scott Segal and Andrew Shaw explore whether nuclear energy can meet the rapidly growing electricity demands...

United States Energy

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Bracewell

Details On EPA's New Real Water Technical Assistance Initiative

United States Environment

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Nossaman LLP

Navigating Nuclear: Unused Combined Licenses Provide A Shortcut To New Builds

United States Energy

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K&L Gates LLP

California Water Plan 2028: What To Know For Water Providers

United States Energy

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Nossaman LLP

Federal PFAS Regulation: 2025 Activities And 2026 Anticipated Actions

United States Environment

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Court Turns On The Tap For Potential Inverse Condemnation Claims Against Water Suppliers

United States Energy

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Nossaman LLP

California Environmental Law & Policy Update

United States Environment

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Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis

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Latest Videos

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U.S. Natural Gas Strategies Episode 2: The Global Chessboard And Strategic Implications (Video)

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Alvarez & Marsal

International Series: Episode 1 — Mastering Workforce Reductions And Restructuring For Global Companies (Video)

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Jackson Lewis P.C.

Navigating The Evolving Landscape Of Corporate PPAs (Video)

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

U.S. State PFAS Initiatives — A Conversation With Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. And Carla N. Hutton (Podcast)

BC

Bergeson & Campbell

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

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Dykema

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