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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.

Vinson & Elkins is a platinum sponsor of Energy Infrastructure Council’s (EIC) Annual Meeting & Legislative Conference taking place June 9 and 10 in Washington, DC.

In the first major National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) case to reach the Supreme Court in almost two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado.

Last week the UK Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated decision in URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21.

On May 22, 2025, the House passed budget reconciliation legislation referred to as “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (the “Bill”).

Vinson & Elkins is a platinum sponsor of Energy Infrastructure Council’s (EIC) 22nd Annual Energy Infrastructure CEO & Investor Conference taking place in Aventura, FL.

Published in The International Construction Law Review, in this article by Roberta Downey examines the growing tension between the soaring energy demands of hyperscale data centres and the global drive toward net-zero emissions. As digital infrastructure expands—fuelled by AI and cloud computing—its reliance on continuous, high-capacity power supply is increasingly at odds with the intermittent nature of renewable energy.

The Texas Legislature has been debating several bills aimed at boosting dispatchable power in ERCOT while erecting new economic and permitting barriers for renewables.

The recent tariffs imposed by the Trump administration mark a significant shift in U.S. trade policy that is expected to have a wide-ranging impact across multiple sectors, including in the energy sector.

In this article published by Data Centre Review, Bader Thabti and Anuja Venkataramani* explore how Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could help meet the growing energy demands of the Middle East’s expanding data centre market.

On November 7, 2024, the Transportation Security Administration (the “TSA”) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) that would mandate cyber risk management (“CRM”) and reporting requirements for certain surface transportation owners and operators, including certain pipeline, freight railroad, passenger railroad, rail transit, and over-the-road bus owners and operators.