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  1. December 14, 2018

    Climate Change Ruled 2018 Energy-Related Court Decisions

    The inexorable links between energy and climate change meant climate played a central role in the biggest court decisions of 2018 affecting the energy sector, from Big Oil dodging climate torts brought by cities to the Trump administration's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline running aground due to a faulty review of climate impacts. Here are five significant energy-related court decisions from the past year.

  2. October 09, 2018

    7th Circ. Won't Budge From Ill. Nuke Subsidy Ruling

    The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday refused to reconsider its ruling backing subsidies offered by Illinois to prop up struggling nuclear power plants, rejecting a rehearing request from a coalition of independent power producers who argued that the decision rested on incorrectly presuming that a lower court granted summary judgment.

  3. September 13, 2018

    7th Circ. Upholds Ill. Nuke Subsidy Program

    The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld subsidies offered by Illinois to prop up struggling nuclear power plants, rejecting arguments that the so-called zero-emission credits are preempted by the Federal Power Act and usurp the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's exclusive jurisdiction over wholesale electricity markets.

  4. July 09, 2018

    Exelon Says FERC Order Doesn't Doom Nuke Subsidies

    Exelon Generation Co. LLC has told the Second and Seventh Circuits that nuclear plant subsidies offered by New York and Illinois were not jeopardized by a recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that PJM Interconnection make changes to its electricity rates to reduce the effect of state clean energy subsidies.

  5. July 05, 2018

    FERC's Market Worries Doom Nuke Plant Subsidies, Foes Say

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recent order that PJM Interconnection revise its electricity market rules to blunt the impact of state clean energy policies supports arguments that the Seventh and Second Circuits must invalidate nuclear plant subsidies offered by Illinois and New York, challengers of the subsidies say.

  6. June 21, 2018

    Energy Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2018

    Climate change hogs the spotlight in some of the most closely watched court cases involving the energy sector, from bids to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate-related damages to an increasingly tense showdown between the Trump administration and California over the future of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. Here are several cases energy attorneys will be watching in the second half of 2018.

  7. May 29, 2018

    US Says Ill. Nuke Subsidy Plan Doesn't Preempt Federal Law

    The U.S. government told the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday that Illinois' plan to subsidize nuclear power plants doesn't usurp federal authority over wholesale electricity markets, and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is well positioned to address any conflicts between state and federal electricity policies.

  8. February 22, 2018

    7th Circ. Wants US Input On Ill. Nuke Subsidies

    The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday asked the U.S. government to weigh in on whether Illinois' plan to subsidize nuclear power plants usurps federal authority over wholesale electricity markets, a sign that the appeals court is still struggling to decide the issue.

  9. January 03, 2018

    Ill. Nuclear Subsidy Row May Be Better For FERC: 7th Circ.

    A group of power producers challenging an Illinois law providing clean-energy subsidies to a pair of nuclear power plants in the state took their case to the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday, but at least one judge on the panel seemed skeptical that the court should decide the dispute.

  10. December 13, 2017

    Ill. Nuke Plant Subsidies Do Step On FERC, 7th Circ. Told

    A coalition of power producers on Tuesday told the Seventh Circuit that the effort by Illinois to prop up two struggling Exelon Corp. nuclear power plants is an overreach of authority reserved for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, adding that Supreme Court precedent showed the state went too far.

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