Making Renewable Energy Claims Under the FTC Green Guides: Key Considerations, Lessons From Recent Enforcement
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will address the status of the FTC Green Guides as they apply to renewable energy. The panel will discuss recent enforcement actions against energy companies, the anticipated updates to the Green Guides, best practices for energy companies seeking to make renewable energy claims and statements, and more.
Outline
- Current state of the Green Guides
- Enforceability
- Incorporation by reference into various state laws
- "Renewable energy"
- Recent enforcement actions invoking Section 260.15
- FTC regulatory review and anticipated changes
- Possible rulemaking under FTC Act
- State AGs' request to FTC to expand Section 260.15
- Best practices for compliance
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the federal and state regulations and standards that currently relate to renewable energy marketing claims?
- What are the recent legal developments related to the Green Guides?
- What should energy companies do to ensure that marketing claims related to renewable energy are supportable and align with the Green Guides?
Faculty
Shawane L. Lee
Partner
Snell & Wilmer
Ms. Lee represents public utilities and other companies in matters before governmental and regulatory agencies,... | Read More
Ms. Lee represents public utilities and other companies in matters before governmental and regulatory agencies, including the California Public Utility Commission and Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. With over 12 years of experience as in-house counsel and 6 years of experience as a litigator, Ms. Lee leverages her extensive industry knowledge to provide clients creative, strategic, and comprehensive regulatory law and litigation representation. Ms. Lee is also highly experienced in litigating premise liability, product liability, and toxic tort matters and has first and second chaired State Court jury trials to verdict.
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Douglas A. Thompson
Partner
Snell & Wilmer
Mr. Thompson defends class action litigation matters and represents financial institutions and businesses in related... | Read More
Mr. Thompson defends class action litigation matters and represents financial institutions and businesses in related regulatory investigations. Throughout his career, he has represented banking services and other clients in more than 250 putative class actions and has been admitted pro hac vice in numerous federal district courts. Mr. Thompson assists clients in mitigating emerging regulatory and litigation risk and collaborates with clients to champion inclusion, innovation, and thought leadership initiatives. For financial institutions, he has defended claims under federal banking and consumer lending laws such as the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), and Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Mr. Thompson also defends banking deposit operations claims, including claims challenging compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, claims involving alleged ACH and wire transfer frauds, business email compromise (BEC) claims, social engineering claims, privacy contract claims, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) related issues. His extensive banking experience also covers claims concerning commercial banking rules such as swaps products, purported Ponzi schemes, and related alleged violations of state unfair and deceptive acts or practices (UDAP) statutes.
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