The inauguration of the Biden administration will bring a plethora of policy changes focused on US electric power production, fuel, and climate change mitigation and remediation. The Biden administration’s Climate Executive Order, discussed further in this Legal Update, declares the intention to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions” and “bolster resilience to the impacts of climate change.”
On January 20, 2021, US President Joseph Biden signed a series of executive orders, including one titled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” This executive order contains a series of directives to federal agencies and departments that will significantly impact the energy sector and signals the high
2020 was a fascinating year for all lawyers in the global oil & gas sector.
Over the year we had some brilliant speakers leading discussions with industry lawyers through our oil & gas lawyers’ forum – click on this link to see what we discussed.
Our sessions usually take place on Wednesday mornings (UK
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
As 2020 ends and the festive season is dampened by a growing number of COVID-19 infections, one might say “Bah Humbug” to an unforgettable year that one might wish to forget. What does 2021 hold for the world beyond COVID-19 and the future of the US-China relationship? Will the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come be “dark and mysterious”, “faceless” and present “the unknown, and the fear inherent” or can the world come together again for a better Christmas in 2021?
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The UK has announced an ambitious target to achieve a net zero carbon economy by 2050. It is widely acknowledged both within the UK government and industry more broadly that hydrogen will play a key role in achieving this target. The potential role of hydrogen in the transport and heating sector is seen as particularly
Please join us on December 3, 2020 at 9:30 am Central to discuss oil and gas investments in Latin America. Link to registration is here. There will be two panels focusing on the following topics.
Leading experts will examine
On 11 November 2020, the UK government published draft legislation, the National Security and Investment Bill (the “Bill”), which will significantly change the treatment of mergers and acquisitions in the United Kingdom and will introduce a new security screening regime separate from competition law.
Once in force, it will require prior notification and approval of
International Petroleum Law and Transactions (Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2020)
Norman Nadorff was invited by Professor Owen Anderson, the book’s General Editor, to write the official review of this seminal work.
The book is an exquisitely organized and richly detailed summary of the petroleum industry and its technology, laws, economics, and agreements. As such,
On September 22, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced in his speech to the UN General Assembly that China’s carbon emission would peak before 2030 and the country would become carbon neutral in 2060.
The amendment to Regulation 14 of ANNEX VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (“MARPOL“) (also referred to as IMO 2020) came into effect on 1 January 2020 and set in place a new sulphur oxide (SOx) limit cap of 0.5 percent for marine fuel oils. This