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On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”) into law. Congress passed the OBBBA through budget reconciliation, a special legislative process that allows Congress to advance certain tax, spending, and debt limit legislation with a simple majority vote in the Senate so long as the legislation does not increase the federal budget deficit outside a 10-year budget window.
V&E Tax Update
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1 119th Congress) (“OBBBA”) into law.
V&E Renewable Energy Update
In the afternoon of June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee (“SFC”) released its proposed legislative text of the tax title for the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” H.R. Con. Res. 14, 119th Cong. (2025) (the “Reconciliation Bill”).
V&E Renewable Energy Update
On May 16, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court issued a decision ruling that, absent specific contractual language, surface owners retain ownership of the caverns created by salt mining operations.
V&E Energy Update
V&E Governance & Sustainability Update
On May 22, 2025, the House passed budget reconciliation legislation referred to as “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (the “Bill”).
V&E Energy Update
After an intense 21-hour House Rules Committee markup, early in the morning of May 22, 2025, the House passed H.R. Con. Res. 14, 119th Cong. (2025) (the “Reconciliation Bill”), which makes significant revisions to the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”) provisions.
V&E Renewable Energy Update
Early this morning, the House Ways and Means Committee (the “Ways and Means Committee”) approved its recently proposed markup of H.R. Con. Res. 14, 119th Cong. (2025) (the “Reconciliation Bill”).
V&E Renewable Energy Update