At its open meeting on 16 June 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on interconnection reform in response to its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (ANOPR) (Docket […]

On 13 June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (Section 1782), holding that the statute does not permit federal courts to order discovery for use in foreign private commercial arbitrations or investment treaty arbitrations. As detailed in our previous alerts on this issue,1 […]

Looming global hunger (Phil Star Global) Jun 15, 2022 Jun 12, 2022 pfowlkes Wed, 06/15/2022 – 14:43 Looming global hunger (Phil Star Global) Looming global hunger (Phil Star Global) Philippines In the News Markets Food Security Food Prices Phil Star (Global business section) published an Read more about Looming global […]

Photo: Pixabay/VisionPics India’s wild elephants need plenty of roaming space, but space is what they are increasingly lacking. The jumbos are constrained to just 3% of their former range, warns the World Wide Fund for Nature, and this sad state of affairs has led to a marked increase in elephant-human […]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS Social factors, the “S” in “ESG,” consider how a business handles its relationships with suppliers, contractors, employees, and communities. These factors are becoming the target of class action plaintiffs’ lawyers, who are using companies’ statements about their environmental, fair trade, […]