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As our nation pursues ambitious goals towards substantially increased renewable energy resources and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, new energy storage projects will play a major role in achieving these goals.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the "IRA") now allows firms to develop and sell clean energy tax credits. In our last update, available here, we discussed the launch...

The companies authorized to export LNG, based on the grant of these applications, and an oil and natural gas industry group were granted leave to intervene in the cases pending before the D.C. Circuit.

On March 10, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule under the Clean Air Act that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from large sources in the United States.

Beating its self-imposed June deadline by one business day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed "renewable volume obligations" (RVOs) for 2014-2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program last Friday.

In late October 2025, Exxon Mobil Corporation filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, launching a major constitutional and regulatory challenge to California's landmark...

For facilities placed in service before Jan. 1, 2022, the credit for renewable electricity production for calendar year (CY) 2025 is 3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) on the sale of electricity produced from the qualified energy resources of wind, closed-loop biomass and geothermal energy...

A Washington D.C. federal judge upheld the Bureau of Land Management's greenhouse gas and climate impact analysis, conducted in connection with six 2022 federal onshore oil and gas lease sales.

On August 16, FERC and NERC issued a joint report on the outages and curtailments that occurred in the southwest during the extraordinary cold snap in early February 2011.

On January 19, 2016, FERC Staff issued a white paper entitled, "Guidance Principles for Clean Power Plan Modeling."

On March 17, 2016, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or the "Commission") issued an order approving Reliability Standard PRC-026-1 (Relay Performance During Stable Power Swings).

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a brief order on March 24, 2022, backtracking on the historic – and divisive – changes it had announced several weeks ago to its natural gas pipeline certification policies.

On September 14, 2017, the Subcommittee on Energy of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on defining reliability in a transforming electricity industry.

Two FERC Commissioners are asking electric transmission providers to introduce "cure periods" into their interconnection procedures, hoping to reduce the likelihood that energy projects...

In a move that will save the industry about $400,000 each year, on January 19, 2012, FERC eliminated the semiannual storage reporting requirements for (i) interstate pipelines transacting under the Natural Gas Act.

On Wednesday, March 7, 2007, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order approving its stipulation and consent agreement with Bangor Gas Co., LLC, in which Bangor agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty for violation of the Commission’s Capacity Release program. Notably, Bangor self-reported the violation and did not profit from the violations; further, Commission staff concluded that the violations did not cause any identifiable financial harm to third parties.

Following a March 3, 2022 grilling of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Commissioners by members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources relating to several of ...

On August 8, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an enforcement order in Skye MS, LLC (Skye) and levied a $45,000 civil penalty on an intrastate pipeline operator in Mississippi...