Developers seeking to finalize projects financed with clean energy tax credits and several loans are hitting a roadblock in demonstrating to the IRS that their debt has limited ties to prohibited foreign entities, a requirement for qualifying for the incentives.
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Developers Stumped By Energy Credits' Foreign Debt Limits

By Kat Lucero

Developers seeking to finalize projects financed with clean energy tax credits and several loans are hitting a roadblock in demonstrating to the IRS that their debt has limited ties to prohibited foreign entities, a requirement for qualifying for the incentives.

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High Court Reopens Review Of DOE Furnace Efficiency Rules

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a D.C. Circuit decision that upheld Biden-era energy efficiency standards for furnaces and water heaters and ordered the circuit court to take another look in light of the Trump administration's intent to revise the rules.

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DC Judge Undoes IRS Wind, Solar Tax Credit Limitations

By Ganesh Setty

A D.C. federal judge has vacated an Internal Revenue Service notice limiting how wind and large-scale solar projects can qualify for two Biden-era clean energy tax credits, finding the Trump administration didn't sufficiently consider reliance interests and explain its rationale for the change.

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High Court Won't Let Pa. AG Enter Grid Project Suit

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a plea from Pennsylvania's attorney general to let him intervene in Third Circuit proceedings that allowed an electricity transmission project to proceed despite having been rejected by state utility regulators.

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OIL AND GAS

Ohio Justices Back $29M Duke Energy Gas Rate Increase

By Aaron Keller

Duke Energy Ohio Inc. can raise natural gas distribution rates to offset roughly $29 million tied to the retirement of man-made underground propane storage caverns used since the late 1950s to supply customers during spikes in demand, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.

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Ukrainian Bank Says Russia Can't Dodge $1.1B Award Suit

By Joyce Hanson

A Ukrainian bank has asked a D.C. federal judge not to dismiss its suit to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award against Russia, saying that in the dispute over jurisdiction the court need only decide that a bilateral investment treaty between the parties is valid.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

DC Circ. Backs FERC Rejection Of Grid-Planning Deal

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was allowed to reject a proposal by PJM transmission owners that would've allowed the regional grid operator to make grid-planning decisions without the approval of its members committee over an issue with a single amendment, the D.C. Circuit has said.

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SF Sues DOE Over Clean Energy Grant's Anti-Diversity Terms

By Dorothy Atkins

San Francisco hit the Energy Department with a lawsuit in California federal court Friday, alleging the Trump administration is trying to coerce the city to impose contradictory and legally questionable anti-equity policy funding conditions or else face $130,000 cuts in clean energy infrastructure grants awarded to the city.

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Ariz. Authorizes Special Tax Districts To Fund Infrastructure

By Zak Kostro

Arizona authorized the formation of special taxing districts to fund infrastructure projects with revenue from property taxes and other sources under a bill signed by the governor.

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Spain Says DOJ Downplays Sovereigns' Risks In Awards Feud

By Caroline Simson

Spain told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that the Trump administration's recent brief urging the justices not to disturb a D.C. Circuit opinion greenlighting litigation to enforce more than $400 million in arbitral awards nevertheless "largely confirms" that its sovereign immunity defense deserves a second look.

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Former Electric Utility Exec Can Continue With Bias Suit

By Emily Brill

A North Carolina electric utility must continue facing claims that it passed over a Black executive for company president because of his race, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, trimming the former executive's suit in response to the utility's dismissal motion but preserving the central allegations.

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RENEWABLES

Conn. Expands Solar Energy System Tax, Limits Exemption

By Zak Kostro

Connecticut expanded the scope of a tax on solar energy systems and limited a property tax exemption for solar energy facilities under a bill signed by the governor.

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Shoals Solar Patent Dispute Kept Alive By NC Court

By Adam Lidgett

A North Carolina federal court has refused to find that three Shoals Technologies Group solar energy patents were unenforceable in the company's infringement suit but said the court would keep certain issues in mind should the case result in a damages verdict.

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Archer Can't Ditch Trimmed Joby Air Taxi Trade Secrets Suit

By Linda Chiem

A California federal judge has said Joby Aviation can forge ahead with a pared-down lawsuit alleging rival electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation misappropriated its trade secrets, but has tossed Archer's "shotgun pleadings" counterclaims alleging Joby misclassified imports to evade tariffs and concealed its China ties.

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PEOPLE

Energy Transactions Atty Returns To McGuireWoods In SF

By Tracey Read

A senior vice president with Aon's global mergers and acquisitions and transactions solutions team has rejoined McGuireWoods LLP as a partner in San Francisco, the firm announced Monday.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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2nd Circ. Wary Of Nadine Menendez's Args At Bail Hearing

By Carla Baranauckas

A Second Circuit panel signaled skepticism Tuesday toward Nadine Menendez during a hearing on her bid for bail pending appeal of her bribery conviction, repeatedly questioning her claim that prosecutors had misled her about their plans to use her former lawyer as a witness against her.

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Q&A

Next ABA International Ethics Chair Looks To Year Ahead

By Emily Sawicki

Rob Misey, incoming chair of the American Bar Association's International Ethics Committee, brings a passion for international dialogue to his new role, set to begin in September. Misey discussed his goals of initiating ethics conversations throughout the ABA and with counterparts overseas.

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Regulatory Litigator Joins Steptoe In SF From K&L Gates

By Lynn LaRowe

Steptoe LLP announced Tuesday that it is growing its U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory bench and its West Coast offerings with a San Francisco-based litigator who came aboard from K&L Gates LLP.

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Trial Boutiques Roll Out Associate Pay Raises

By Andrea Keckley

Three trial boutiques are planning to bump associate salaries by at least $10,000 next month, the firms confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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Pa. Law Firm Calls Uber's RICO Suit A 'Sham'

By James Boyle

Nearly a month after its motion to dismiss a RICO suit filed by Uber and FedEx was denied by a Philadelphia federal judge, personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has lodged a counterclaim against the companies, saying their complaint is a "frivolous sham."

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Senate Confirms Kansas Prosecutor To Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.

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Ex-EDNY Acting US Atty Joins Akerman's White Collar Practice

By Phillip Bantz

A longtime senior federal prosecutor in New York has returned to private practice as co-leader of the white collar crime and government investigations group at Akerman LLP, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Judge Candidate Loses Ballot Challenge At Mich. High Court

By Melanie Dorsey

An Oakland County probate judge candidate will remain off the August primary ballot after the Michigan Supreme Court declined to review his challenge to the rejection of hundreds of petition signatures, while one justice urged lawmakers to reconsider election rules under which officials were not required to review affidavits that could have validated more than 100 disputed signatures.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AES Solar

American Bar Association

American Gas Association

American Municipal Power Inc.

American Public Gas Association

Archer Aviation Inc.

Brooklyn Law School

City Attorney of San Francisco

Duke Energy Corp.

Earthjustice

FedEx Corp.

George Washington University

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

Joby Aero Inc

LafargeHolcim Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Mithun Inc.

National Propane Gas Association

Natural Resources Defense Council

NextEra Energy Inc.

PG&E Corp.

PJM Interconnection LLC

Public Citizen Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Union Internationale des Avocats

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Baratta Law

Barnes & Thornburg

Blank Rome

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Bricker Graydon

Buchalter LLP

Clark Hill

Cleary Gottlieb

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Dilworth Paxson

Dinsmore & Shohl

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Elsberg Baker

Eversheds Sutherland

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Fisher & Phillips

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Jim Kelly Law

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Keller & Heckman

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kutak Rock

Latham & Watkins

Lehotsky Keller

Levine Lee

Lewis Brisbois

Littler Mendelson

Marks & Sokolov

Mayer Brown

Maynard Nexsen

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Nelson Mullins

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Polsinelli PC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Quintairos Prieto

Reed Smith

Reinhart Boerner

Ropes & Gray

Schertler Onorato

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Simon & Simon PC

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps

Smith & Christensen

Spencer Fane

Squire Patton

Steptoe LLP

Stinson LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Taft Stettinius

Torridon Law

Troutman

Venable LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Watkins Calcara

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Williams Mullen

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

Womble Bond

Wright & Talisman

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

French Court of Cassation

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Kansas Attorney General's Office

Michigan Legislature

Michigan Supreme Court

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Ohio Attorney General's Office

Ohio Supreme Court

Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Energy

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 Louisiana

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

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