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PHMSA Informational Meeting on Upcoming Leak Detection Inspections
On January 27, 2022, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced a public informational meeting on February 17, 2022 regarding PHMSA’s plan for forthcoming audits of updated inspection and maintenance plans to eliminate and minimize leaks pursuant to...
A Balancing Act: Merchant Risk and the Energy Transition
One Cold Day in January Whilst most people will think of 2021 as being dominated by Covid and yet another year of the pandemic and lock-down restrictions, anybody interested in the energy markets will likely mark 2021 down as a...
HSR Notification Thresholds Increase for 2022
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced the annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”) thresholds, which will become effective on February 23, 2022. The revised thresholds will apply to any merger or acquisition closing on or...
Nigeria’s upstream petroleum sector - looking back at 2021 and looking ahead in 2022
Two decades of collective breath holding was finally released with the enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), making 2021 a notable year for Nigerian oil and gas. We give our snapshot of the year’s main events in Nigeria’s upstream...
Trial Recap - US v. Elizabeth Holmes
On this episode of The Bracewell Sidebar, we discuss the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos trial and the significance of the mixed verdict. To break it down, 11 counts ultimately went to the jury. Holmes was convicted on some and acquitted on some...
2022 Preview – Politics and Policymaking
On this episode of the Environmental Law Monitor, host Daniel Pope is joined by Ann Navaro and Christine Wyman to discuss what Bracewell’s Policy Resolution Group (PRG) is observing in terms of politics and policy-making, such as the infrastructure bill...
Ransomware: An Enterprise Risk for the Unprepared
For a company with robust data protection and recovery practices, a ransomware attack may cause a few extra headaches, but it won’t wipe the company out. Companies without those protections in place, however, risk allowing ransomware to bankrupt their entire...
Limetree Court Denies Stay Pending Appeal of Order Approving 363 Sale
A recent order from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Court”) allowed a debtor to reopen a completed auction based on a significantly more attractive, but untimely, bid. The late bid was approximately three...
The Risky Business of International Projects
On this episode of The Bracewell Sidebar, we talk with Assaad Nasr about the challenges that US lawyers face when they are working on international projects. Assaad is a deal lawyer, who previously served as general counsel of an international...
Decarbonising the LNG Industry: The Pressure is On
Click here to read this article in Joomag format Decarbonising Natural Gas and LNG Natural gas and liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) have long been hailed as one of the winners of the current energy transition when compared to other fossil...
USACE Changes Course on CWA Approved Jurisdictional Determinations
On January 5, 2022, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced that Approved Jurisdictional Determinations (AJDs) issued before August 30, 2021, are no longer valid for new permit decisions. USACE uses AJDs to make final determinations regarding the...
The Air Up There: SCOTUS Grants Cert in West Virginia v. EPA
On this episode of the Environmental Law Monitor, host Daniel Pope is joined by Brittany Pemberton to discuss developments related to remissions reductions under the Clean Air Act. Brittany is an associate in our DC office. She advises energy, oil...
Federal Court of Appeals Allows OSHA's Vaccination/Testing Rule for Employers with 100+ Employees to Go Forward
Late this past Friday, December 17, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order dissolving the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' stay that had blocked implementation of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). In other words, the...
CPRA Countdown: It's Time to Brush Up on California's Latest Data Privacy Law
On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, a ballot initiative which enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the most sweeping consumer data protection law in the U.S. This...
Patch Up – Log4j and How to Avoid a Cybercrime Christmas
A vulnerability so dangerous that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure (CISA) Director Jen Easterly called it “one of the most serious [she’s] seen in [her] entire career, if not the most serious” arrived just in time for the holidays. On December 10...