Publications

Enacted in 2021, the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act regulates carbon-storage sites in Nebraska. Such projects have the potential to significantly offset industrial carbon emissions, including in ethanol production. Carbon capture and underground storage (“CCUS”) is the technology that removes carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and then compresses, transports, […]

The two-year halt on tariffs aims to alleviate import costs and ease supply-chain logjams that have hampered growth in the solar-energy industry. This move should allay some industry concerns and increase domestic development. President Joe Biden recently took significant action to address the slowdown in domestic solar-energy deployment. In an […]

Humphrey v. Smith, 311 Neb. 632 (2022). A partition action asks a court to split a property between multiple owners. Here, two people bought a house together. One loaned the other $25,000 of the $35,000 purchase price. The lender, in turn, promised to release his name from the deed once […]

Hannes Zetzsche and Eli Rosenberg join host David Kramer for a wide ranging discussion on cannabis banking. This episode covers the legal treatment of cannabis on both the federal and state levels and what issues and challenges banks face in providing financial services to these businesses. Listen here.

In an aggressive expansion of its regulatory oversight of the financial services market, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced last month its intent to use dormant authority within the Dodd-Frank Act to begin supervising non-banks (including fintech and crypto companies) that the CFPB has reasonable cause to determine pose […]