Future Energy Group

Armstrong Teasdale represents participants in the Future Energy Group industry in a full array of projects, including:

• Geothermal Site Leasing
• Coal plant siting and permitting
• Coal mine financing and environmental issues
• Carbon offset and trading markets
• Wind generation siting and permitting
• Nuclear waste licensing
• Green building construction
• Ethanol and other biofuel project acquisition, finance and land use
• Natural gas and oil pipeline projects
• Natural gas co-generation permitting, construction and energy sales contracts
• Landfill methane gas purchase, leasing, financing and Section 45 Tax Credits
• Utility corridor acquisition and development
• Utility rate cases
• Utility district creation
• Public utility generation and transmission
  • Coal power plan siting and permitting
  • Peaker plants
  • Environmental regulations
  • Corridor condemnation
  • Merger and acquisition diligence
  • Zoning and other land use
  • Power purchase agreements
• Bureau of Land Management CO2 gas field leasing
• Technology patenting related to carbon capture, smart grid, wind and nuclear energy
• Refinery acquisition and sale
• Toxic tort claims defense
• Energy Tax Credits
• Energy Company Venture Capital and Corporate Collaboration

Robert List, Senior Counsel in our Nevada office, is a former Governor and Attorney General of Nevada. In those capacities, he worked at the center of rate cases and other utility issues. In private practice, Mr. List has represented industry users in wholesale rate proceedings, and has represented the Nuclear Energy Institute and four Nevada counties in the Yucca Mountain licensing matter.

One of our practice group attorneys, Roger Walker, serves as Executive Director of REGFORM (www.regform.org), a business association whose objective is the development and negotiation of environmental regulations and policies in Missouri. REGFORM hosts the annual "The Midwest Energy Conference at the Garden" along with our firm, the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association, East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Green Building Council and others.

We monitor the latest development in energy and green house gas management and publish advisories on these developments which are available at no charge on this website.

We advise the Midwest operations of a full-service carbon assessment, management, investment and trading company with long-standing operations in the European Union to facilitate the development, financing and implementation of CDM, JI and VER projects, climate neutral services and corporate climate strategies.

Practice Highlights

• Of the 63 Armstrong Teasdale attorneys named to the most recent edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, two were named top Energy Law lawyers.

Representative

The following clients are representative of our Future Energy Group practice group:

• Abengoa Bionenergy
• Akermin
• AmerenUE
• Ameresco
• Buckeye Pipeline Company
• Center Ethanol
• Eagle Marine
• Entergy
• First Climate
• General Electric Company
• Kelson Holding, LLC
• Northeast Missouri Green Processors
• Oxbow Energy and Mission Energy
• Shell Oil Company
• Southwest Gas Corporation
• Town of Pahrump, Nevada

Related Areas of Practice

• Banking and Financial Services
• Corporate Services
• Environmental
• Government Relations
• International
• Litigation
• Patent, Trademark and other Intellectual Property
• Public Law and Finance
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Transportation Industry
• Venture Capital

AT Environmental, a subsidiary of the firm, is experienced in the type of complex transactions and risk management vital to the emerging climate change industry. Headed by George von Stamwitz, AT Environmental helps clients access environmental risk transfer solutions and integrate those solutions into their broader business goals. AT Environmental has compiled a team of professionals with training and deal experience in environmental law, finance, insurance, environmental consulting and real estate.

Attorneys in the Future Energy Group

Boatman, Mark	Levitt, Cary
Bottini, Tom	List, Robert
Burke, Daniel	McFadden, Timothy
Calvert, Winston	Meich, Bret
Campbell, Richard	Mello, Jim
Chatman, Darryl	Morrison, Matt
Cooper, Daniel	Murray, Mark
Cowling, John	O'Keefe, Julie
DeShield, Harven	Raleigh, Robert
Francis, Byron	Reeser, Bob
Frank, Tyler	Sant, Tal
Frankel, Amelia	Sharp, Jarrod
Godar, Dan	Sullivan, John
Jackson, Bob	Tryniecki, Tim
Kass, Michael	Virtel, Jim
Kinz, Robert	von Kaenel, Joe
Klahr, Robert	von Stamwitz, George
Kloster, Timmi	Walker, Roger
Kozak, Scott	Zychlewicz, William