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Slashing Costs: Missouri School District Shares Experience with Propane

NGT News

Since it replaced aging diesel buses with propane autogas buses, the Grain Valley School District in Missouri has been saving money on fuel and maintenance costs. In 2018, the district decided to purchase 14 IC Bus CE Series propane autogas buses to replace diesel buses of 2001 and 2002 model years. The new buses joined […].

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Opportunity to Minimize the New Tax on 501(c)(3) Exempt Organization Employee Parking

The Energy Law

Due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) passed by Congress in December 2017, starting in 2018 many 501(c)(3) Exempt Organizations (“EOs”) are required to treat the cost of employer-paid qualified transportation and parking benefits as unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to the EO.

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Permian Basin Gas Production Pushes Limits – Infrastructure Expansion Needed

Rextag

Permian Basin production has grown dramatically, surpassing 10 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2018 and more than doubling to 21 Bcf/d by 2022, according to the U.S. "We have a long way to go to align infrastructure with production growth, and more pipelines will be needed as power demand keeps rising."

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Ninth and Fifth Circuits Split on Issue of Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law

The Energy Law

23, 2018). In Townsend, the Supreme Court ruled that punitive damages are available to seamen in claims against their employers for willful or wanton failure to pay maintenance and cure. The Court’s reasoning hinged largely on the fact that both punitive damages and maintenance and cure predated passage of the Jones Act.

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Federal Circuit Holds U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Not Liable for Hurricane Katrina Flood Damage

The Energy Law

On April 20, 2018, it reversed a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims (“Claims Court”), which had held the U.S. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a significant opinion in a case in which a takings claim was asserted to redress Hurricane Katrina-related flood damage.

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Oil and Gas – Unburdened by What Has Been

Aresco

In 2018, U.S. to energy independence while creating thousands of construction and maintenance jobs. Energy Independence on the Horizon During his first term, Trump championed policies that helped the United States achieve energy independence while becoming a net-exporter of crude oil.

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