DOE Seeks Input on How to Spend $2.5 billion on Transmission Projects

Posted on May 13, 2022 by Chris Colyer

By Matt Derstine On May 6, 2022, the Department of Energy issued a notice of DOE’s intent to implement the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP) and to request input regarding the solicitation and qualification process for TFP funding.  The TFP is … Continue reading →

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Office of Environmental Justice & Reviving Supplemental Environmental Projects

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Luke Narducci and Amanda Reeve On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“USDOJ”) announced the launch of a new comprehensive environmental justice (“EJ”) strategy. The three-prong strategy, as laid out by the U.S. Attorney General in an … Continue reading →

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Pushing the United Nations for Recognition of Access to a Clean Environment as a Human Right

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by John Habib The United Nations Human Rights Council passed Resolution 48/13 in October 2021. The Resolution recognizes as a human right a person’s access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Non-governmental organizations are now pushing the United Nations … Continue reading →

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Basin States Agree to Reduced Colorado River Deliveries

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Fred Breedlove Less than two weeks ago, we wrote that the Department of Interior proposed reducing Colorado River deliveries in 2022 by 480,000 acre-feet and that Assistant Secretary Trujillo had asked the Basin States for comments on this proposal.  … Continue reading →

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Feds Considering Emergency Reductions to Colorado River Deliveries

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Fred Breedlove In an April 8, 2022 letter to each of the seven Colorado River basin states, the Interior Department asked for comments by April 22 about its plan to reduce releases from Glen Canyon Dam to 7.0 million … Continue reading →

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Alphabet’s Wing Initiates Drone Delivery Service in Texas

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Patrick J. Paul On April 7, 2022, Alphabet’s Wing launched commercial drone delivery service in two suburban towns north of Dallas, Texas – Frisco and Little Elm – where Wing had been testing its service over the last year … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Clean Water Rule (For Now)

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Patrick J. Paul On Wednesday, April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision stayed a Northern District of California Court decision that both remanded and vacated EPA Trump-era rules regarding water quality certification of projects under Clean … Continue reading →

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FERC Seeks Over $508 Million to Accomplish 2023 Strategic Priorities

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Kelly A. Daly Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) submitted its Fiscal Year 2023 Congressional Justification. This document, which is submitted annually, consolidates the Annual Performance Plan with the Performance Budget Request for the primary purpose of communicating … Continue reading →

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EPA Removes Obstacles to “Sue and Settle”

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Mitchell J. Klein In a memo to agency leadership sent earlier this month, EPA Administrator Michael Regan rescinded practices that were instituted by one of his Trump-era predecessors, Scott Pruitt, to eliminate what has been referred to by some … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of Energy

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Chris Colyer

by Raymond S. Heyman Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to the forefront the key role that energy policy plays in international relations.  Many countries sympathetic to Ukraine, but not wanting to escalate the conflict by sending troops, have discussed … Continue reading →

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