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Made in America: Spurring Domestic Job Creation and Production Through Buy America Rules and Beyond

May 25, 2021

This post is the 13th in a series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” As made clear by its name, the Biden Administration intends for its “infrastructure” plan to be a jobs plan. As is also apparent from the Administration’s proposal, it views requirements to ensure that goods are actually made in America as critical to creating new American jobs. According to the White House, “by ensuring that American taxpayers’ dollars benefit working families and…

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Lines, Labor and Leveraging Capital: How the AJP Would Upgrade Transmission Infrastructure

By Ben Segal, Kyle Sweeney & Kevin Poloncarz

May 24, 2021

This blog is the twelfth in our series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” Power lines, strung between high-voltage transmission towers, are etched across the American landscape. Yet the United States’ current transmission infrastructure is outdated and inefficient, plagued by bottlenecks and weak interconnections across regions, which limit the grid’s ability to integrate renewable generation and its overall resilience. Improving and expanding the Nation’s transmission infrastructure is therefore central to the American Jobs Plan’s (AJP) grid…

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The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Proposal: What Companies Need to Know

By Sinéad Oryszczuk & Miles Lynn

May 18, 2021

The European Commission has published a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (2021/0104) (“CSRD”), which forms just one part of a comprehensive package of sustainable finance measures (see our blog here). The Commission has put forward these measures in response to demand for stronger and wider sustainability reporting standards, over and above what the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive currently provides. The CSRD seeks to mandate sustainability reporting and assurance through the amendment of…

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The EU’s Green Capitalism Takes Shape: Taxonomy Screening Criteria and Corporate Sustainability Reporting

By Sinéad Oryszczuk, Paul Mertenskötter, Roemer Sijmons & Marco Brand

May 18, 2021

The European Commission has presented a package of key enabling legislation on sustainable finance (the “Sustainable Finance Package”). This includes the much-awaited first technical screening criteria under the Taxonomy Regulation — outlined in the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act (“TCDA”) — and a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”), which significantly revises and expands on the existing Non-Financial Reporting Directive’s remit and disclosure rules for corporates. While the former is directly aimed at…

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Kids and a Sustainable Future

By John Mizerak

May 17, 2021

This is the eleventh in our series on the “ABCs of the AJP.” America’s kids are the beneficiaries of many of the provisions of President Biden’s Jobs Plan, and several of the proposals would benefit them and their caretakers specifically. Children have become a focus point of discussions about climate change, because absent intervention they are poised to inherit a world that suffers from its negative effects without having contributed meaningfully to the emissions that…

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Jumpstarting A Cleaner, More Resilient Economy With Jobs

By Tyler Williams & Kevin Poloncarz

May 14, 2021

This is the tenth in our series on “The ABCs of the AJP.” Jobs, unsurprisingly, are at the heart of the Biden Administration’s ambitious, multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. After all, the plan also goes by the name The American Jobs Plan (“AJP”). Each of the sweeping goals of the AJP—from addressing climate change, to developing a resilient electricity grid, to competing with China over clean energy supply chains—promises to create thousands of new jobs.…

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Infrastructure Reimagined: From Roads and Country to People and Planet

By Eric Chung

May 11, 2021

This post is the ninth in a series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” Virtually every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has pursued a national “infrastructure” project of some kind. From the New Deal and the Federal-Aid Highway Acts, which created today’s interstate highway, to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal government has made significant investments toward a “system of public works,” a standard definition for the word “infrastructure.” In this way,…

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Hastening the Hydrogen Economy

By Andrea Chambers & Kevin Poloncarz

May 10, 2021

This blog is the eighth in a series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” The latest Energy Transition technology now attracting massive investment and policy attention is “green hydrogen” produced using renewable energy to separate hydrogen from water that can be used both for bulk energy storage and then used to fuel gas-fired power plants or hard-to-abate sectors such as manufacturing, shipping and long-haul trucking. President Biden’s American Jobs Plan matches that level of investment and…

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Grid Modernization and Greenhouse Gases

By Ben Segal

May 6, 2021

This blog is the seventh in a series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” Grid Modernization and Resiliency Grid modernization and resiliency are critical and intertwined issues that only grow more important as climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events. As the Biden Administration notes in its American Jobs Plan fact sheet, recent power outages in Texas took a tremendous human and economic toll, and power outages generally cost the country $70…

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Finding the Common Ground for Forests

By Kyle Sweeney

May 4, 2021

This blog is the sixth in a series, “The ABCs of the AJP.” One of the key underpinnings of the case for climate legislation is the idea that natural and working lands will suffer without swift and meaningful action. President Biden’s American Jobs Plan (AJP) proposes to “protect and, where necessary, restore nature-based infrastructure – our lands, forests, wetlands, watersheds, and coastal and ocean resources.” But what should that look like? And how will the…

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Developments in law and policy of energy, commodities and environment

Made in America: Spurring Domestic Job Creation and Production Through Buy America Rules and Beyond

Lines, Labor and Leveraging Capital: How the AJP Would Upgrade Transmission Infrastructure

The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Proposal: What Companies Need to Know

The EU’s Green Capitalism Takes Shape: Taxonomy Screening Criteria and Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Kids and a Sustainable Future

Jumpstarting A Cleaner, More Resilient Economy With Jobs

Infrastructure Reimagined: From Roads and Country to People and Planet

Hastening the Hydrogen Economy

Grid Modernization and Greenhouse Gases

Finding the Common Ground for Forests

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