Clean-energy developers' rush to start project construction in order to remain eligible for expiring tax credits has investors and buyers questioning whether their work actually qualifies, complicating efforts to meet future project completion deadlines.
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Clean-Energy Projects Face Scrutiny After Tax Credit Rush

By Keith Goldberg

Clean-energy developers' rush to start project construction in order to remain eligible for expiring tax credits has investors and buyers questioning whether their work actually qualifies, complicating efforts to meet future project completion deadlines.

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W.Va. Coal Plant Hits Ch. 11, Blames Ex-Leaders

By Ben Zigterman

The owner of a West Virginia coal-fired power plant filed for Chapter 11 relief Monday with more than $70 million of funded debt and plans to sell the facility, with the new management installed earlier this year accusing former executives of misconduct.

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Claims Court OKs $49.4M In Cash Grants For Calif. Wind Farm

By Kat Lucero

A California wind farm, the nation's second largest, is entitled to an additional $49.4 million in renewable energy cash grants, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge announced Monday, approving the parties' recalculation of the amount in a 13-year-old lawsuit.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Trade Court Orders Redo Of Mexican Steel Duty Rate

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce must recalculate the antidumping duty rate for corrosion-resistant steel products produced by a Mexican company without applying certain adverse facts, the U.S. Court of International Trade said, calling the previous calculation "unreasonable."

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OIL AND GAS

White & Case-Led Natural Gas Giant Inks $1.25B Marketing Buy

By Al Barbarino

Expand Energy said Monday it will acquire privately held natural gas marketer Twin Eagle Holdings for $1.25 billion from Five Point Infrastructure, a deal that will help bolster the North American natural gas production giant's marketing operations.

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Groups Say National Pipeline Permit Harms Rivers, Wetlands

By Tom Lotshaw

Environmental organizations asked a Washington federal judge Monday to overturn a nationwide permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued for oil and gas pipelines, accusing the agency of allowing companies to fast-track stream crossings without the appropriate considerations or safeguards.

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Oilfield Co. Misclassified Workers, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A former oilfield geologist and mud logger hit an oilfield support services company with a proposed collective action in Colorado federal court, alleging it misclassified field workers as independent contractors and denied them overtime pay.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

Hawaiian Telecom, Electric Co. Resolve Pole Removal Dustup

By Christopher Cole

A telecom has agreed to end its dispute with Hawaiian Electric Co. after urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the utility's removal of 22 electric poles that are also used for communications gear.

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RENEWABLES

Installer Sues Canadian Solar After He's Crushed By Panels

By Mike Curley

A Washington man who owns a solar component contractor is suing Canadian Solar Inc. and its affiliates in federal court, alleging poor packaging caused 1,800 pounds of solar panels to fall over and crush him.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Judges On AI: Examining Administrative, Organizational Uses

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Brief

Milbank Issues Bonuses To Associates, Special Counsel

By Andrea Keckley

Milbank LLP is continuing to lead the way on bonuses, confirming Monday it has issued a round of special bonuses ranging from $6,000 for the class of 2026 and 2025 associates to $25,000 for the class of 2021 associates and beyond.

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Cooley Owes $25.4M Judgment To NJ Biotech Co. Founder

By Brian Steele

A New Jersey state court on Monday entered a $25.4 million judgment against Cooley LLP after a jury found the multinational firm had committed malpractice in its representation of a biotech founder who said his own lawyers assisted in shoving him out of his company.

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ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

By Lauren Berg

The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

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Quinn Emanuel's Ethics Training 'Promising,' Judge Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Monday approved a court-ordered ethics training program prepared by Quinn Emanuel in the wake of misrepresentations the firm made concerning an expert in a false advertising suit brought by Guardant Health against its client Natera, saying the firm had designed an "extremely promising" eight-hour program.

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Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

By Madison Arnold

A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.

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300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

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Comey Says Seashell Post No Threat To Trump

By Abigail Harrison

Former FBI Director James Comey urged a North Carolina federal court Monday to dismiss an indictment stemming from a social media post he made last year, arguing the post doesn't constitute a "true threat" to President Donald Trump.

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American Bar Association

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Brooklyn Defender Services

Canadian Solar Inc.

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Epoch Holding Corporation

Guardant Health Inc.

Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc.

Hawaiian Telcom Communications Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Natera Inc.

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

OrbiMed Advisors LLC

Patriot National Inc.

Sierra Club

Southern Environmental Law Center

Southwestern Energy Co.

Steel Dynamics Inc.

United States Steel Corp.

United Steelworkers

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Baker Botts

Burns Charest

Cassidy Levy

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

HSF Kramer

Holland & Hart

James Vernon & Weeks

Keller Anderle

Latham & Watkins

Long & Levit

Mazie Slater

Milbank LLP

Norton Rose

Parmet Law

Quinn Emanuel

Schagrin Associates

Selendy Gay

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Susman Godfrey

White & Case

Wilentz Goldman

Williams & Connolly

Winton & Chapman

Young Conaway

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Fish and Wildlife Service

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Court

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado