Private Credit Flowing for Texas Firms’ Green Energy Transition
The private credit market presents an opportunity for energy companies looking to fund their transition into green energy, according to Texas finance lawyers.
Regulatory requirements for safer, more sustainable chemicals don’t always align with governmental clean energy and other goals, according to speakers at a chemical regulations conference.
The Biden administration announced Wednesday a conditional loan commitment of up to $1.52 billion for a loan guarantee to help restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan, a significant move to keep reactors running as a major source of zero-carbon power and high-paying jobs.
Planned improvements to speed and enhance new chemical reviews may be paused as the EPA decides how to allocate cuts Congress recently made to its fiscal year 2024 budget.
The Biden administration wants the Tennessee Valley Authority to reevaluate preferred plans to build a natural gas-fired power plant to replace an aging coal facility scheduled to close by 2027, finding deficiencies in the federally owned utility’s environmental review.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
The private credit market presents an opportunity for energy companies looking to fund their transition into green energy, according to Texas finance lawyers.
The world’s biggest banks are quietly hanging on to carbon-intensive clients because of what they see as unrealistic demands from regulators and civil society — and the threat to their fees.
Companies manufacturing meat made with cultured animal cells are under attack by red-state legislatures backed by powerful agriculture groups.
The White House will require federal agencies to test artificial intelligence tools for potential risks and designate officers to ensure oversight, actions intended to encourage responsible adoption of the emerging technology by the US government.
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The Energy Department rejected a petition by the American Petroleum Institute and six other trade groups challenging the Biden administration’s move to pause LNG export permits, according to a letter posted by the department Wednesday evening.
The SEC on Wednesday pushed the Eighth Circuit to keep the agency’s climate disclosure regulations in place as court action continues, after it failed to prevent the rules’ week-long pause by another court.
Just as they first ventured to do over a century ago, the world’s largest oil companies are staking claims far from home — this time to swallow, rather than spew, planet-warming industrial emissions.
A cat advocacy nonprofit filed a lawsuit Wednesday to halt a US National Park Service plan that the group says could kill scores of cats on federal land in Puerto Rico.
Regulatory requirements for safer, more sustainable chemicals don’t always align with governmental clean energy and other goals, according to speakers at a chemical regulations conference.
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The private credit market presents an opportunity for energy companies looking to fund their transition into green energy, according to Texas finance lawyers.
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