August 23, 2024
From a D.C. Circuit decision upholding California's ability to set its own greenhouse gas standards for vehicles to the U.S. Supreme Court's freeze of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's plan to reduce cross-state pollution, consequential decisions in the energy space ripped through the courts in the first half of 2024.
June 14, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Friday appeared to endorse the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's current method of evaluating the climate change impacts of gas infrastructure projects in approval in rejecting an environmental group's challenge of the agency's pipeline upgrade project serving the New York City area.
November 22, 2023
There's little indication that a long-awaited revision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's gas infrastructure approval policy is imminent, which means any further clarity on how the agency should factor climate change into its reviews will likely come from the courts. Here's a trio of pending D.C. Circuit cases that could provide FERC with further guidance on how it should evaluate the climate impacts of gas projects.
November 07, 2023
At least one member of the D.C. Circuit seemed torn Tuesday about whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission messed up its review of the greenhouse gas impacts of an eventually approved pipeline upgrade project in New York City.
June 13, 2023
Federal energy regulators have offered unconvincing excuses for their lax review of greenhouse gas impacts from a Kinder Morgan Inc. affiliate's pipeline upgrade project for New York City, a watchdog group told the D.C. Circuit.
May 23, 2023
A Kinder Morgan Inc. unit and New York City's main utility on Monday urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a pipeline upgrade project aimed at boosting gas supplies, saying the agency's environmental review was sound.
May 16, 2023
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defended its approval of a Kinder Morgan Inc. unit's project to boost natural gas supplies to New York City's main utility, telling the D.C. Circuit that it sufficiently reviewed the project's environmental impacts and correctly weighed the project's necessity.