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- Regulation of oil and natural gas pipelines: a legal primer for the layman
- Oil and natural gas pipelines traverse the United States through a network of underground pipelines that transport product throughout the lower 48 states and Alaska. Despite so many miles of pipeline carrying so much product, U.S. Department of Transportation DOT reports that pipelines are the safest mode of transportation...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- AmerenUE Announces Intent to Rebuild Upper Reservoir of Taum Sauk Plant, Assuming Successful Resolution of Issues with State Agencies
- To: STATE EDITORSContact: Media, Susan Gallagher, +1-314-554-2175, or sgallagher@ameren.com , or Tim Fox, +1-314-554-3120, or tfox@ameren.com , or Investors, Bruce Steinke, +1-314-554-2574, or bsteinke@ameren.com , all of Ameren Corporation ST. LOUIS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) officials today announced that its Missouri utility operating company, AmerenUE, submitted...
- Research articles 2007-02-05
- DWR Receives Stakeholder Support for Oroville Relicensing
- OROVILLE, Calif. -- The Department of Water Resources DWR and stakeholders reached an important milestone this week in negotiating a settlement agreement supporting DWR's new federal license application for its Oroville facilities. Primary negotiators representing a majority of the participating organizations have agreed to recommend that their organizations sign the...
- Research articles 2006-01-27
- New U.S. Hydro Dam Licensing Rules Dilute River Protections
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The Departments of the Interior, Commerce, and Agriculture jointly announced new Interim Final Rules Wednesday that the agencies say will improve licensing procedures for hydropower while protecting threatened and endangered fish species, water quality, and federal and tribal resources. But conservationists contend that the...
- Research articles 2005-11-17
- Corps, FERC try to clarify roles related to pipeline construction.(Wetlands Regulation News)
- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have signed an agreement designed to streamline regulatory processes dealing with the construction of natural gas pipelines and associated facilities. Often such construction impacts wetlands areas under the Corps' jurisdiction. ...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Multiple principals, multiple signals: a signaling approach to principal-agent relations.
- Twenty years ago Barry Mitnick (1984) suggested that the "bureaucracy problem," first enunciated by James Q. Wilson (1989), was not so much inherent in bureaucracy as it was in agency. Mitnick's interest in agency, the dilemma involved when one is forced to have another act rather...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- APPLICABILITY OF NEPA TO FEDERAL ENERGY MARKET RESTRUCTURING
- Abstract:In furtherance of its goal of creating a more competitive electricity market, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC has proposed the creation of a Standard Market Design. While the proposal has been hotly debated, the focus has largely been on the economics rather than on environmental issues. FERC should fully...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- BLACKOUT
- POWER SHORTAGES, INTERRUPTIONS COULD BECOME MORE COMMON STORYOn Aug. 14, 2003, America experienced the worst blackout in its history. The outage affected an estimated 50 million people in portions of the Midwest and Northeast, as well as Ontario, Canada. Total estimated U.S. costs: $4 billion to $10 billion.An investigation by...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Snohomish County, Wash., Hydroelectric Re-Licensing Draws Agency Scrutiny.
- By Christopher Schwarzen, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--The Snohomish County Public Utility District is preparing to face scrutiny from local, state and federal agencies as it seeks to re-license the Henry M. Jackson Hydroelectric Project. ...
- Research articles 2004-06-16
- Federal Board Blocks Fast Track for Fall River, Mass., Natural-Gas Plant.
- By Jessica Resnick-Ault, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 16--FALL RIVER, Mass. -- The federal agency that licenses liquefied natural gas import facilities decided this week not to provide a preliminary ruling on the terminal proposed for Fall River. ...
- Research articles 2004-04-16
- Fall River, Mass., Will Have Say in Hearings on Natural-Gas Import Plant.
- By Jessica Resnick-Ault, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 4--FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Federal officials said yesterday that the city administration will have an official role in determining whether a liquefied natural gas import facility is built just north of...
- Research articles 2004-03-04
- Energy bill dead for 2003--revived in 2004?(Washington D.C. Report)
- Just before adjourning for the year, Congress tried but failed to pass a comprehensive energy bill that included significant changes in federal electricity policy. Despite strong support from the White House and the Republican leadership in the House and Senate, the final version of the bill...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Hydro licensing reforms are a "win" for Northwest, California.(Washington D.C. Report)
- Although much of Northwest public power's focus during the debate over pending federal energy legislation has been trying to prevent undesirable changes in electricity policy, another title in the comprehensive bill would make very positive changes in law for NWPPA members and other regional utilities that...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Government agency goes paperless. (Regulatory Update).(Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)(Brief Article)
- As part of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act GPEA, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released its findings on a two-year study on the effects/progress in transitioning from paper to electronic filing. The FERC online program allows any reports, complaints and suggestions related...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Federal panel agrees energy refunds due: Sempra contends agency will find its deals were legal
- Federal energy regulators have finally sided with California. After more than two years of turning a deaf ear to state officials' claims of looting and price gouging during the 2000-2001 energy crisis, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC agreed on March 26 that some power merchants rigged the natural...
- Research articles 2003-03-31
- House Energy Bill: Hydropower Title Worse than Last Year's; American Rivers Testimony Available at www.americanrivers.org
- WASHINGTON, March 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the House of Representatives moves towards a new comprehensive energy bill, American Rivers today testified before the House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee the current draft would rollback 80 years of established environmental protections at hydropower dams in the name of regulatory "streamlining."...
- Research articles 2003-03-12
- Allegheny Energy Supply Moves to Dismiss California Lawsuit
- Energy Editors/Business Editors HAGERSTOWN, Md.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 4, 2003 Allegheny Energy Supply, a subsidiary of Allegheny Energy (NYSE: AYE), asked the Sacramento Superior Court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the California Department of Water Resources CDWR because the contract is currently under review by the Federal Energy Regulatory...
- Research articles 2003-03-04
- Washington State Energy Official Fights Federal Proposal.
- By Al Gibbs, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7--Marilyn Showalter, recently reappointed as chairwoman of the three-member state Utilities and Transportation Commission, is no fan of her federal counterpart, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. ...
- Research articles 2003-01-07
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and environmental justice: Do the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Air Act offer a better way?, The
- Abstract: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC has failed to incorporate environmental justice principles into its decisionmaking process. Accordingly, in light of FERC's questionable environmental record and seeming immunity from traditional environmental justice challenges, the potential for abuse arises when FERC decides on matters impacting poor and minority communities. Why...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Power planning: state considers joint agency to balance energy needs with environment.
- A multiagency planning authority that would consider environmental preservation along with projects to meet Connecticut's growing energy needs is -- at the very least -- being discussed by state officials. Department of Public Utility Control DPUC Commissioner Donald W. Downes spoke at length...
- Research articles 2002-11-04
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