Environment

As of Jan. 1, 2021, all permit applications for new buildings in the Netherlands are being tested against new criteria which aim to ensure that these new buildings are (almost)…
Continue Reading Every New Building in the Netherlands Must Be (Almost) Energy Neutral Starting Jan. 1, 2021

Shareholders Bernadette Rappold and Steven Barringer are quoted in a Law360 article titled “Environmental Regulations To Watch In 2021.” Click here to access the Law360 article (subscription required).
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP served as lead counsel for BayWa r.e. in the financing, and sale of the 250 MW Amadeus Wind Project, which completed construction and achieved…
Continue Reading Greenberg Traurig Represents BayWa r.e. in Installation of the Company’s Largest Onshore Wind Project to Date

The incoming Biden Administration intends to take many major environmental policy actions aimed at climate change, enforcement, environmental justice, and several other issues, many of which entail reversing actions taken…
Continue Reading TRANSITION THOUGHTS: The Presidential Transition, NEPA, and Project Review

The ongoing battle over Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) – environmentally-beneficial, beyond-compliance projects that defendants agree to undertake for potential penalty mitigation in settlement of environmental enforcement actions – heated up…
Continue Reading New Lawsuit Challenges DOJ Policy Prohibiting SEPs

On Oct. 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (Ministerie van Economische …
Continue Reading U.S. and Dutch Governments Announce Hydrogen Collaboration