On October 21, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a final rule reforming the credit practices of the organized electric markets, which include those energy transmission markets operated by independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs).

Proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) "Green Guides" should be seen as a bellwether of further regulatory review and oversight on those businesses that market or otherwise provide products and services that include a renewable energy component.

A second Trump administration is expected to prioritize "energy dominance," focusing on expanding oil and gas, reducing regulations, and increasing drilling, especially with Republican-led committees in Congress likely...

E. Dee Martin, partner and co-head of Bracewell's Policy Resolution Group, and Rebecca Brown, a PRG principal, discuss the future of the hydrogen industry during the second Trump administration.

Federal policy continuity between administrations, combined with unprecedented tech sector demand and over $80 billion in federal financing, is driving an ambitious push to quadruple US nuclear generation capacity by 2050.

Upstream and downstream energy businesses are squarely in the environmental enforcement Cross hairs of regulators and the general public.

In this episode of the Environmental Law Monitor, host Daniel Pope is joined by Erin Chancellor, the interim executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission recently proposed a new rule that will require issuers engaged in the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals to disclose, in annual reports on Form 10-K, 20-F and 40-F, payments made to the U.S. federal government and foreign governments in furtherance of the development of oil, natural gas, or minerals.

With the recent indictment of two senior hedge fund managers at Bear Stearns on federal conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud charges, a federal court in the Eastern District of New York revealed the most recent impact of the government's growing scrutiny of the participants in the subprime meltdown.

Since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, filings of Suspicious Activity Reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network have increased dramatically.

Legislation recently introduced in the United States Congress and a recent United States Supreme Court decision continue the trend to strengthen the hand of the government and whistleblower plaintiffs in False Claims Act (FCA) actions brought against companies involved in federal government contracting and Medicare reimbursement, and, possibly, stimulus fund recipients.

In late December 2022, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware issued an opinion affirming the Mallinckrodt1 bankruptcy court's November 2021 decision...

Intercreditor agreements between first and second lien lenders are created all the time and are therefore not usually glitzy topics for client updates.

When law firms undertake debtor representations, there is significant potential for conflicts of interest.

Director David Kappos continues to shake up past procedures at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ("Patent Office") in an effort to give applicants greater control over the length of duration of the patent examination process, as well as cut down on the current backlog of applications.

Business methods received serious cross fire during today’s Bilski v. Kappos oral arguments. Justices from all sides of the bench peppered both parties regarding the extent to which broad business method claims are patent eligible subject matter.

On February 6, 2026, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) launched a new online...

In 2003 and 2004, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, of the Southern District of New York, issued a series of opinions concerning parties' electronic discovery obligations in connection with a case styled Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, et al., No. 02 Civ. 1243 (S.D.N.Y.).

It has recently been announced that an arbitral tribunal has found in favour of Venture Global, Inc. in its dispute against Shell concerning whether the 'start date' of a long-term liquefied...

The Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act ("CUBI") aims to prevent the commercial collection of an individual's biometric identifiers without their consent.