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4.04.24
Firm Supports Justice Climate Fund in Successful Bid for $1 Billion Funding Award
On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Vice President Kamala Harris announced that Justice Climate Fund (JCF) was selected to receive approximately $1 billion in funding under the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator program. Wilson Sonsini is honored to have supported JCF in connection with this once-in-a-generation commitment to building enduring clean and green financing institutions that deliver transformational climate equity for families and communities across this nation.
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10.26.23
Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update, October 2023
We are pleased to share the October 2023 issue of Wilson Sonsini's Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Update. Each issue combines news, key legal developments, and resources related to sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters relevant to public and private companies internationally.
Alerts
7.14.23
CFTC Announces Initiatives on Carbon Markets
In press releases issued in late June, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced its enforcement division’s creation of a task force on environmental fraud, and publicized its whistleblower office’s alert to carbon market participants, identifying types of misconduct of interest to the CFTC. In addition, the CFTC announced a second public discussion of voluntary carbon markets, which will be held on July 19.
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6.01.23
2023 Chambers USA Guide Recognizes Wilson Sonsini Practices and Attorneys
The recently published 2023 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business recognized numerous Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati practices and attorneys. This year, the firm was ranked in 35 geography-specific practice categories, while 79 attorneys were honored among the best in their fields.
Client Highlights
5.16.23
Wilson Sonsini Advises Mast Reforestation on Carbon Removals Streaming Agreement with Carbon Streaming
On May 10, 2023, Mast Reforestation, the leading vertically integrated reforestation company, announced a $15 million financing agreement with Carbon Streaming Corporation to advance its post-wildfire reforestation projects throughout the American West. This first-of-its-kind project financing will cover the high upfront costs of reforestation projects, accelerating Mast’s forest restoration work and enabling the company to serve more landowners affected by wildfires. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Mast Reforestation in the transaction.
White Papers/Briefs
8.16.22
Energy and Climate Solutions White Paper: Federal Funding Opportunities for Scaling Climate Solutions
For decades, clean energy and climate innovation and deployment have relied on, and been accelerated by, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) support through non-dilutive loans, grants, and other financial awards, combined with the DOE’s vast infrastructure of national labs and other partnerships and collaborations to spur research and technology development. That track record of success has been recognized and profoundly expanded upon by new laws designed to amplify the DOE’s capacity and reach, as well as empower other federal agencies to deepen their existing programs and launch new, complementary programs.
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8.16.22
Understanding and Unlocking the IRA and Clean Energy & Climate Solutions Federal Funding Opportunities
Wilson Sonsini’s Energy and Climate Solutions group celebrates the historic passage of the energy and climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). Like our clients, we are mission-driven and laser-focused on the advancement of clean energy and the decarbonization of our economy. With our clients, we applaud the IRA’s long-term vision of a 10-year tax regime, accompanied by automatic stabilizers for the new technology-neutral ITC and PTC to begin in 2025 that will create stable U.S. clean energy tax policy, $369 billion direct in investment in our sector, and additional hundreds of billions in DOE loan authority. Combining these transformative investments with over $120 billion in clean energy and climate infrastructure and technology provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the CHIPS Act (CHIPS), the federal government has acted decisively to create fundamental, disruptive change in how we power our economy.
Press Releases
6.07.22
Wilson Sonsini Powers Up Its Energy Practice with the Addition of Elise Zoli in Boston
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Elise Zoli has joined the firm’s energy and climate solutions (ECS) practice as a partner in the Boston office, where she will focus her practice on global strategic alliances and market-opening transactions in the clean energy, water, agriculture, and de-carbonization sectors.