Voters on ballot questions across the country Tuesday broadly opposed building new data center projects, with Ohio voters enacting roadblocks to projects pitched by Amazon, Meta and others, in an electoral test for the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Voters on ballot questions across the country Tuesday broadly opposed building new data center projects, with Ohio voters enacting roadblocks to projects pitched by Amazon, Meta and others, in an electoral test for the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Voters in Georgia flipped Republican control of the state's Public Service Commission, which regulates investor-owned utilities, in a pair of races that attracted unusually high political spending amid rising electricity prices and a massive data center buildout.
Voters in seven states were set to decide closely watched environmental ballot measures, including whether California should speed up environmental reviews, if Colorado should codify a "right to natural gas," and if Michigan should tighten campaign finance restrictions on the utility industry.
Michigan voters approved a statewide ballot proposal Tuesday restricting campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors,while Ann Arbor voters opposed a separate measure establishing a municipal electric utility that could eventually replace DTE Energy as the city's electricity provider.
The top brass of Bloom Energy Corp. on Tuesday were hit with another lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders by understating the extent to which the renewable energy company depended on Chinese scandium, a critical raw material used in its fuel cells.
Carl Icahn-backed CVR Energy said Tuesday it has agreed to buy two refineries and a related marketing business from Marathon Petroleum and its affiliates for approximately $4.2 billion in a deal that would nearly double its refining capacity.
Latham & Watkins LLP-advised infrastructure investor I Squared Capital on Tuesday revealed that it closed its second infrastructure credit fund with over $2.4 billion of committed capital.
A Native American tribe has asked a D.C. federal judge not to strike its natural resources director's statement about potential harm the Army Corps of Engineers will cause by allowing Enbridge Energy to reroute 41 miles of a pipeline around the tribe's lands.
China and Peru have updated their bilateral trade treaty to both update existing provisions and add new ones aimed at addressing changes in commerce and global trade since the deal was first reached in 2009, the two countries said.
Pipes known as oil country tubular goods imported from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates could be hit with double-digit antidumping duties after the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily found on Tuesday that they are being sold at less than fair value.
Shell PLC's Australian subsidiary has agreed to sell its 16.67% stake in Western Australia's North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project to United Arab Emirates-based XRG PJSC for $1.45 billion, the companies said Tuesday.
Public Citizen and the Sierra Club urged a Texas federal court to pause the construction of power plants and backup diesel generators for two data center campuses in the state, claiming their members will be harmed if the work continues.
The U.S. Court of International Trade dismissed as moot a suit brought by U.S. solar manufacturers challenging U.S. International Trade Commission determinations regarding harm caused by Cambodian and Thai solar cell imports because the at-issue entries have already been processed.
Rivian Automotive Inc. executives and the company's investors Tuesday filed a notice telling a California federal court they reached a settlement to end derivative claims Rivian hid the true price of manufacturing its electric vehicles ahead of its initial public offering.
Environmental groups told the Fourth Circuit that a West Virginia federal judge was right to scrap a Clean Water Act permit that allowed Republic Energy LLC to bury 20,000 feet of valley streams with fill from surface coal mining.
A pipeline release that causes worker injury does not trigger one investigation, but five or more, running on different timetables, under different statutes, and new federal procedures may soon add more complexity — but companies must maintain one centralized record to ensure consistency throughout, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
Recent patent disputes involving technologies that support artificial intelligence data centers showcase the growing litigation risks that data center suppliers and operators face, and raise questions about how litigation responsibilities may be allocated between them, say attorneys at Katten.
The OpenAI CEO’s recent call for artificial intelligence laboratories to collectively slow development to allow safety research to catch up invites antitrust scrutiny, but the risks to coordinating competitors can be managed by carefully structuring pacing agreements and layering their approach to compliance, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.
Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.
Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.
Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.
From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.
Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.
The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.
