Insights

Washington – August 15, 2024: The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® has recognized 42 Crowell & Moring lawyers as "Best Lawyers" and 29 lawyers as “Ones to Watch.”

Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

The Department of Defense (“DoD) recently took important actions to expand and deepen its relationships with companies bringing critical energy production and storage technologies to the DoD marketplace. As one of the largest consumers of energy in the world, DoD has the scale and resources to catalyze new industries, and mission assurance increasingly requires a diverse generation mix and incorporation of advanced technologies.

As the Department of Energy’s (“DOE”) Loan Programs Office (“LPO”) continues to finance clean energy manufacturing and deployment in the United States, the recent announcement by the DOE’s Office of Inspector General’s (“DOE OIG”) that it intends to scrutinize LPO’s due diligence process increases the risk to program applicants. According to a recent notice issued on SAM.gov, the DOE OIG intends to issue a sole source contract for legal support “assessing the policies and procedures” for the due diligence of loan applications, and evaluate specific LPO loans and guarantees to assess their compliance with, consistency in application of, and the effectiveness of LPO policies and procedures, as well as related Governmentwide regulations, policies, procedures, and directives, to identify specific points of weakness in due diligence practices, and to recommend improvements to mitigate risks.

In one of the first rulings applying Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated and remanded the D.C. Circuit’s decision in Solar Energy Industries Association v. FERC for further consideration.

The 2022 Mid-Year Energy Forum is a day and a half of discussions focused on all aspects of energy law, policy and trends. Topics will include supply chain impacts, ESG, LNG, hydrogen, stranded assets, crisis management, and West Virginia vs. EPA.

Partner Amanda Berman will be presenting the session "Regulatory Roulette: The State of Play Under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Other Major Environmental Statutes" at 10:45 am on Wednesday, March 24th.