SFPP LP v. FERC, et al

  1. November 20, 2020

    DC Circ. Won't Rethink OK'ing FERC Pipeline Tax Policy Shift

    The D.C. Circuit won't revisit its July decision backing a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission policy that ends an income tax allowance for pipeline master limited partnerships, unconvinced by a pipeline developer's arguments that the commission didn't follow the right process when it enacted the policy.

  2. July 31, 2020

    DC Circ. Backs FERC's Pipeline Tax Policy Shift

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday backed a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission policy that eliminates an income tax allowance for pipeline master limited partnerships, saying the agency properly used it to strip the tax perk from a Kinder Morgan pipeline MLP.

  3. April 03, 2020

    Pipelines, FERC Butt Heads At DC Circ. Over Nixed Tax Perk

    Two pipeline companies clashed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a pair of intertwined hearings before the D.C. Circuit Friday, as a three-judge panel heard appeals challenging a new FERC policy doing away with an income tax allowance for pipeline master limited partnerships, a key tax perk.

  4. October 15, 2019

    FERC Can't Yank Pipeline Tax Perk, DC Circ. Hears

    A Kinder Morgan unit told the D.C. Circuit that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission used a misguided policy to wrongly strip the company of a key tax perk for pipeline master limited partnerships.