Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure

House Republicans advanced their sweeping reconciliation package amid a flurry of activity across the executive branch, with President Trump issuing executive orders to bolster the US nuclear sector. 

Learn about upcoming sustainable energy and infrastructure events, including ClimaTech 2025.

Our May 2025 Energy & Sustainability Washington Update highlights the first 100 days of the Trump administration, including staffing cuts at DOE, EPA, FERC, and DOI, accelerated permitting changes, early reconciliation negotiations, and the uncertain future of IRA energy tax credits.

Read about recent M&A activity in the sustainable energy and infrastructure spaces including, acquisitions involving Holocene Climate Corporation and Talen Renewable Energy.

This issue of Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Connections includes a spotlight on UbiQD’s recent financing round, along with energy policy news from Washington, litigation updates, a roundup of recent M&A activity, and information on upcoming industry events.

In litigation news involving sustainable energy and infrastructure, read about President Trump’s executive order targeting state climate actions and the legal challenges surrounding the SEC’s climate disclosure regulation.

Read about UbiQD’s $20 million Series B financing round and its innovative approach to quantum dot technology, driving advancements in solar energy, agriculture, and more while scaling up manufacturing and enhancing R&D.

This issue of Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Connections includes a spotlight on Vema Hydrogen’s recent fundig round, along with energy policy news from Washington, litigation updates, a roundup of recent M&A activity, and information on upcoming industry events.

In litigation news involving sustainable energy and infrastructure, read about the SEC’s decision to stop defending the climate disclosure rule and the legal challenges that followed.

Read about Vema Hydrogen’s recent $13 million funding round and its breakthrough approach to producing clean, affordable geologic hydrogen.

Learn about upcoming sustainable energy and infrastructure events, including StartupSD 1st Mondays presented by San Diego Community Power and the Global Power Markets Conference.

Read about recent M&A activity in the sustainable energy and infrastructure spaces including, acquisitions involving WAVE Charging, Plural Brokerage, and Daymark Energy Advisors.

Read about recent M&A activity in the sustainable energy and infrastructure spaces, including integrated energy system NextNRG’s acquisition of EzFill Holdings through a reverse merger.

In litigation news involving sustainable energy and infrastructure, the Trump administration’s SEC has begun the process of undoing the agency’s mandatory climate disclosure rule, California’s climate role recently survived a significant legal challenge, and a Texas federal judge upheld a rule promulgated by the Biden administration’s Department of Labor that enabled ESG-focused investing.

This issue of Energy & Sustainability Connections includes features on comment letters Issued by the SEC concerning climate change disclosures, updates on the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act, plus energy policy news from Washington, litigation updates, a roundup of recent M&A activity, and information on upcoming industry events.