Bipartisan support is growing on Capitol Hill and beyond to accelerate carbon capture deployment on power plants and industrial sources like steel and cement plants. The first week of April saw bipartisan bills in both the Senate and House to help unleash private capital to scale up more carbon capture projects to promote energy… Keep reading →
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Bipartisan Support Grows for Carbon Capture
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By Dimitrios Karakitsos, Isabel Lane, Beth Viola | Holland & Knight LLP
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order entitled “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth” is a broad directive accomplishing a number of the Trump Administration’s energy-related priorities.
Military Strikes On Syria: Historical Lessons And Implications
By Michael Eisenstadt
Assad’s track record indicates that he will likely continue challenging the chemical redline, and that additional strikes and other pressures may be necessary to deter him from doing so. In the early morning hours of April 7, the United States launched fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles from two destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean against al-Shayrat Air… Keep reading →
The decision by the Trump Administration to launch missile strikes against Syria may affect oil markets. The Middle Eastern country broke international law established by the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions when it decided to use chemical weapons on rebels in the country – a banned form of artillery. The true outcome hinges on… Keep reading →
Executive Order Seeks Sweeping Reversal Of Climate Change Policies To Favor U.S. Energy Production
By Pamela Anderson, Christopher Chou, Jeffrey Hunter, Brian Potts | Perkins Coie
President Donald Trump recently signed Executive Order 13783, an omnibus executive order aimed at reducing burdens on further development of domestic energy resources.
Congress Must Rein in the Regulatory State
By H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. - The Heartland InstituteBecause President Barack Obama was so prolific in using “a stroke of a pen” to create law through executive orders, thereby going around Congress to enact his policy preferences, President Donald Trump can undo many of those costly, harmful policies with his own signature, and he is doing so. Simultaneously, Congress has discovered its power… Keep reading →
Climate Change Executive Order: What’s Next?
By Olivia Lucas, Andrew Wheeler | Faegre Baker Daniels
On March 28, 2017, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to take action to repeal President Obama’s climate agenda, including the Clean Power Plan.
To help Washington in the war against the Islamic State, Cairo must first help itself, in part by adopting a modern COIN approach in Sinai and refocusing its military spending toward that end. Seven years have passed since an Egyptian head of state visited the White House, but the April 3 Oval Office meeting between… Keep reading →
Trump Order Ushers In The Future Of US Energy And Environmental Regulation
By Nathaniel Custer, Robert McKeehan | WilmerHale
On March 28, President Trump launched a sweeping overhaul of US energy and environmental policy.
Administration’s Executive Order On Climate And Energy Is Controversial, And May Shift Action To States
By Chris Carr, Robert Fleishman, Michael Steel, Ali Zaidi | Morrison & Foerster LLP
On March 28, 2017, President Trump issued an “Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth” that takes aim at a broad range of federal climate and energy programs and regulations.
