Inside Look: Managing Threat in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape

By Frederick R. Eames & Paul M. Tiao on July 18, 2019

In this installment of our Inside Look series, Hunton partners Paul Tiao and Fred Eames discuss the challenges to businesses operating in a constantly evolving cyber threat landscape and steps some companies have taken to protect from attacks. It’s important for companies operating in this space to adjust to changes to international, federal and state regulations regarding critical infrastructure and information sharing, including seeking application for a US SAFETY Act certification.…

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IRS to Seek Comment on Key Issues to be Interpreted in Section 45Q Tax Credit

By David S. Lowman, Jr. & Frederick R. Eames on May 8, 2019

The Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service have released Notice 2019-32 seeking comment on key issues to be interpreted in the Section 45Q carbon oxide sequestration tax credit. Congress significantly enhanced the Section 45Q tax credit in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, increasing the credit from $10/ton for CO2 used as a tertiary injectant (i.e., to produce oil or gas) to $35/ton; and increasing the credit for CO2 geologically stored but not used…

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Green New Deal Goes Beyond Green

By Frederick R. Eames & Marisa Harrilchak on February 8, 2019

On Wednesday, February 7, Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced a federal resolution to recognize a “duty” of the federal government to create a Green New Deal (GND). This blog discussed the GND in a post on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on January 31. Addressing climate change may be a primary focus of the resolution, but “green” is perhaps a misnomer, as the resolution calls for action on issues well beyond climate…

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Issue Spotting: How Privacy May Impact the Energy Sector

By Frederick R. Eames on February 7, 2019

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Energy companies may not be thinking much yet about federal legislation to regulate the consumer data they hold, but they should be. Privacy is shaping up to be a key legislative topic this year. Why would an energy company need to care about privacy legislation? Because lots of different energy companies have extensive consumer data. Oil companies’ service station loyalty programs, electric utilities’ customer data—these are among the many types of consumer data that might…

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Retail Industry on High Alert After $289 Million Glyphosate Verdict Against Monsanto

By Frederick R. Eames, Lori Elliott Jarvis, Malcolm C. Weiss & Elizabeth Reese on September 10, 2018

Weeks after a federal judge called the science behind the alleged carcinogenicity of glyphosate “shaky,” a California state court jury hammered Monsanto with a $289 million verdict, connecting a former groundskeeper’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to his exposure to the Roundup® chemical. The August 10, 2018 verdict in Johnson v. Monsanto Co., No. CGC16550128 (California Superior Court, County of San Francisco)—which included $250 million in punitive damages—was the first in the nearly 8,000 Roundup-related cases currently pending…

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Retail Industry on High Alert After $289 Million Glyphosate Verdict Against Monsanto

By Lori Elliott Jarvis, Malcolm C. Weiss, Frederick R. Eames & Elizabeth Reese on September 6, 2018

Just weeks after a federal judge called the science behind the alleged carcinogenicity of glyphosate “shaky,” a California state court jury hammered Monsanto with a $289 million verdict, blaming a former groundskeeper’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on his exposure to the Roundup® chemical. The August 10, 2018, verdict in Johnson v. Monsanto Co., No. CGC16550128 (California Superior Court, County of San Francisco)—which included $250 million in punitive damages—was just the first in the nearly 8,000 Roundup-related cases…

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Building Trump’s America

By Julia d’Hemecourt & Frederick R. Eames on February 5, 2018

Infrastructure takes a long time to permit in this country. Every president over the past 30-plus years has tried to streamline the federal permitting process for infrastructure. In his first State of the Union, President Trump called for streamlining the federal permitting process so it would take “no more than two years, and perhaps, even one.”…

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Inside Look: Managing Threat in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape

IRS to Seek Comment on Key Issues to be Interpreted in Section 45Q Tax Credit

Green New Deal Goes Beyond Green

Issue Spotting: How Privacy May Impact the Energy Sector

Retail Industry on High Alert After $289 Million Glyphosate Verdict Against Monsanto

Retail Industry on High Alert After $289 Million Glyphosate Verdict Against Monsanto

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